BYE, MOM. BYE, DAD. PLEASE STOP STRUGGLING. IT’S JUST A COUPLE YEARS IN A LABOR CAMP. I KNOW YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO RETIREMENT BUT YOU CO-SIGNED FOR COLLEGE, REMEMBER? IT WAS EITHER SELL YOU INTO INDENTURED SERVITUDE OR GET SOME CORPORATE CUBICLE JOB TO PAY BACK MY STUDENT LOANS.
NO OFFENSE, BUT I DIDN’T GO TO ART SCHOOL TO WORK IN AN OFFICE, OKAY? I NEED TO BE IN A NURTURING CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT.
The Bucking Jenny: The NAACP Supports Marriage Equality →
Last night, I listened to Rachel Maddow interview Ben Jealous the president of the NAACP about the organization’s recent announcement that their board voted (62-2) in favor of supporting marriage equality. As I listened half halfheartedly to the banter of yesterday’s show, I couldn’t help but stop and be captivated by video footage of Mr. Jealous being forced to pause as he spoke on this issue, overcome with emotion as he spoke about how his parents had to go to Washington D.C. to marry because interracial marriage was illegal in Baltimore when they were wed. He gets choked up as he tries to tell us about how people thought that the wedding was a funeral as it traveled back across state lines for a reception at home.
When I’ve been drinking at the bar for a while, and I get up to hug my friend hello
James Baldwin, "Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes" →
How does James Baldwin still manage to be the truth from fifty years ago?
“Romney’s family misspell their last name in the greatest Freudian slip in history.”
Emma Goldman, aka Red Emma
She was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
