March 2012
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beccaelainepuddentane replied to your post: Honest question that’s been on my mind: which… Usually the anxiety, but it also is a very individualistic thing. Do you have OCD by any chance?
I do indeed, which definitely has added to a lot of my anxiety/depression issues. I think mine is mostly anxiety-first as well.
Screensavers of Yore
elizagolightly:
mentalflossr:
Here’s a roundup of some screensavers from the Good Old Days of computing — the 90s — when screensavers were delightfully corny, 3D graphics meant “the future,” and flying toasters invaded our dreams.
Ah that maze one! I loved that one.
“Over just the last year 41 states have cut spending for public higher education....”
– Robert Reich: Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class (via pantslessprogressive)
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn)
February 2012
: Amnesty International | Iran: New report finds... →
standwithfreeiran:
zikrayat:
Iran’s crackdown on freedom of expression has dramatically escalated in the run up to this week’s parliamentary elections, Amnesty International said today. The 71-page “We are ordered to crush you”: Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran…
Also, fun fact: I was really, really close to giving up on being a vegetarian a few weekends ago (aka like the second weekend of officially being vegetarian)… all because of Matzo Ball Soup.
Honest question that’s been on my mind: which comes first, the anxiety or the depression?
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“The Commission did not doubt the genuine feeling with reference to the United...”
– Harry N. Howard, The King-Crane Commission.
The original King-Crane Commission’s report was written in 1919. Just putting this up here, especially in this election year, as a reminder to what America can symbolize if we remember our core values of education, justice, and equality.
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Some other notable quotes:
“A single column of liveried servants approached, each holding high a great metal bowl at least three feet in diameter and a foot or so in depth. The bowls were placed at regular intervals on the floor and following His Highness the guests grouped themselves about the mysterious bowls, four to each bowl. There was the dinner, all in one bowl… Think of the dish washing the Ancient Arab...
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“Dr. King spent the time quietly at the Constantinople Women’s College,...”
– Harry N. Howard, The King-Crane Commission.
Just Henry Churchill King being the awesomely overly enthusiastic, determined, and idealistic President of Oberlin College, nbd.
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“Dr. King hoped the Oberlin Commencement exercises had gone off well, and was...”
– Harry N. Howard, The King-Crane Commision: An American Inquiry in the Middle East.
Henry Churchill King, of the King Building at Oberlin, was sent by Woodrow Wilson to document Middle Eastern opinion on what to do with with the areas that had until then been under the yolk of the Ottoman Empire....
President Of Ireland’s Epic Smack Down Of Tea... →
briancolligan:
think4yourself:
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
toyotabedzrock:
The new President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins – a noted intellectual, having written two volumes of poetry — unleashed his wrath on talk show host Tea Party mouthpiece Michael Graham.
Higgins admits to some differences with President Obama, but not concerning health care, stating it’s a basic human need.
After...
“Some of the workers we spoke to were just horrified when they realized what they...”
– One year later: interviewing the workers who stayed behind at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (via nprfreshair)
“Yes. Next question.”
– Mitt Romney, in response to a reporter asking whether the candidate’s recent statements about his wife owning “a couple of Cadillacs” and his being friends with several NASCAR team “owners” had damaged his campaign. (via dcdecoder)
Hahahhahaa awwwww Mitt…
americawakiewakie:
Panel approves measure forcing non-athletes, average college students to pay $2,000 (Extra)
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
From MSNBC:
“Students at Arizona’s three state universities will have to pay — or borrow — at least $2,000 a year to get an education under terms of legislation approved by a House panel today.
Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said students should...
Third student dies in Chardon school shooting →
columbusdispatch:
A Cleveland hospital says another student wounded in an Ohio high school shooting has died, bringing the death toll to three.
MetroHealth System said Tuesday that Demetrius Hewlin died Tuesday morning. He had been in critical condition.
Hewlin was a student at Chardon High School. He was among several shot by a gunman in the school cafeteria Monday morning.
My thoughts go...
“Whitney Houston’s funeral, but for being broadcast live and attended by...”
– Whitney’s ‘Homegoing’ And The Spiritual Divide | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via npr)
The Beauty of Islam: "Can Religion Be Separated... →
praxidikai:
“One of the difficulties with targeting religion, as some secularists do, is that as a concept it’s incredibly fluid. What do we mean by “religion”? You often hear people saying about Muslims, “They want to have honour killings; they want to have female genital mutilation.” …
“Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that...”
– NPR’s ethics handbook and Jay Rosen’s great post about it (via soupsoup)
“In the 1960’s, we were at war with the Soviet Union. Cold War, and a little bit...”
– Dr. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, on why the de-prioritization of space exploration is a “tragedy,” and how, in fact, the Cold War helped foster U.S. space exploration, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
“Can I tell you something quick? (In) the beginning of your program, the Earth is...”
– Dr. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, to Jon Stewart, nitpicking about The Daily Show’s opening title sequence.
Heh. (via inothernews)
