January 2011
7 posts
Egypt is burning and most westerners have no idea... →
rosieloveswords:
androphilia:
By Parvez Sharma
January 28, 2011
Cairo is burning. So is Egypt. Twitter is exploding. Everyone seems to have an opinion—many who do have never even been to Egypt but feel a strong sense of solidarity with the most remarkable revolution in a generation, perhaps. A revolution which importantly is not really caused by Twitter or by Facebook—as much as the self...
“At least two recent studies show that more guns equals more carnage to...”
– Timonthy Egan, “Myth of the Hero Gunslinger,” New York Times (via iteeth)
Morrow Planet: soupsoup: “Imagine it’s 1995:... →
soupsoup:
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have cellphones, pagers are the norm; dial-up modems screech and scream to connect you an internet without Google, Facebook, or YouTube; Dolly has not yet been cloned; the first Playstation is the cutting edge in…
The Way We Talk About Gun Control Now
langer:
Looks a lot like the way we talk about healthcare, tax cuts, and bailouts:
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official.