Lights Out: It’s Caturday!
[buzzfeed.]
“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.”
- Cornel West
10 years ago today we lost a great man.
“Within You Without You”
George Harrison
We were talking
About the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves
Behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it’s far too late
When they pass away
We were talking
About the love we all could share
When we find it
To try our best to hold it there
With our love, with our love
We could save the world
If they only knew
Try to realize it’s all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you’re really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you
We were talking
About the love that’s gone so cold
And the people who gain the world
And lose their soul
They don’t know, they can’t see
Are you one of them
When you’ve seen beyond yourself
Then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
When you see we’re all one
And life flows on within you and without you
[TRIGGER WARNING: police bruatality, violence] BREAKING: Jeniffer Fox, the 3 Month Pregnant woman who was pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle has miscarried.
TRIGGER WARNING FOR POLICE BRUTALITY
“I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” At that point, Fox continues, a Seattle police officer lifted his foot and it hit her in the stomach, and another officer pushed his bicycle into the crowd, again hitting Fox in the stomach.
oh my fucking god this has gone way too far.
what is wrong with the world.
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: While playing the most recent installment of The Elder Scrolls saga, Carl Douglas’s 3-year-old Daughter quickly arrives at the realization that taking up arms against a villager just because he wants you to leave is not the best idea.
Douglas writes:
[W]hen the adorably traumatic realization set in that the guards were responding to her “swording” by giving her “boo boos,” we did ask her what happened. She just sweetly responded “peoples don’t like swords, and we don’t want swords on the peoples” and she didn’t want to play anymore.
In life as in Skyrim: Don’t kill people just because you don’t like their attitude.
[kotaku.]
That’s adorable
