May 2012
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On your way to becoming a religious person, don’t become a crappy human being.
– Sheikh Omar Suleiman (via arabarabarab)
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There was a time, you know, I got so used to the police turning up. You know,...
– - Sacha Baron Cohen on his run-ins with the law while making his movies. [nprfreshair]
I have very little sympathy for him experiencing for a short what real Arab Americans experience daily.
(via pushinghoopswithsticks)
Um…
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A Wise Woman Once Told Me
“All you can ask of people is that they try.”
This becomes more true for me every day.
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starfishncoffeeelephantsnflowers:
This is just some bullshit. I have too many things to do. Things that actually fucking matter. For kids who need a damn education.
This is why I don’t deal with Tumblr anymore for anything other than pictures of goofy shit and reading articles. Fuck it.
Yeah, that one used to show up on my feed from time to time. She is ridiculous. For whatever it’s...
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Within the field of comparative mythology resides a confounding enigma. For...
– Tony Cook
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The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
– Pablo Neruda (via psychotits)
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I was stunned and angry and honestly a bit hurt. I made it clear to him, as did...
– John Rizzo, CIA’s top legal counsel, on the deletion of waterboarding tapes by Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.
Rodriguez says:
I was honoured to serve my country after the 9/11 attacks. I am proud of the decisions that I took including the destruction of the...
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Happy Birthday to me.
Went out to dinner for my birthday (fish tacos, Lakefront White beer, whoopie pie and giant cup of coffee for dessert) and scowled at the noisy children in the restaurant like a proper New Yorker.
It was a good day.
It’s going to be a good year.
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When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via thisblueboy)
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At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important...
– Barack Obama, The New York Times
I have my problems with the Obama Administration, but I think this is a good thing. I thought his original stance on same-sex marriage was out of step with the times and inconsistent with the values of his party. And for the record I get where queer anti-marriage...
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