1. Notes: 6 / 5 months ago 

    morte uni magnissimi defensoris libertatis aetatis nostrae:

    Hitchens died yesterday. as much as i hate to use the term, he was a “trail blazer”: patriarch of freedom whose views, polemical as they are and eternal as he’s ensured them to be, probably won’t ever be articulated in as eloquent a manner as he saw them again. i’m not daring enough to try to sum up the amazing life of this remarkable man in one such note, but i have this sneaking suspicion, and i hope it’s an ignoble one, that he might end up being remembered simply as a ‘discerning’ author. or ‘polemic’ journalist or some such nonsense, which would be a grotesque manifestation of the poverty of colloquial vocabulary. it might be more honest to say that he was nothing short of brilliant; i had never heard so many of my views projected into the public arena in as verbally lithe a manner as he presented effortlessly at every debate in use against opponent after opponent, often more than one at once, none of whom would ever realized just how far in over it they really were until the hour grew late and the discourse one sided. i won’t offend his legacy with talk of deification, but i do feel as if he was no less eloquent and bellicose than augustus, if only in his own right. To a warrior, an intellecutal, an iconoclast, a free ponderer, to a seer,  to a voice of reason which only death could silence, to one of the most acute thinkers of the 20th century from the views of whom dissent would be no real excuse for indifference; Requiescat in Pace. 

  2. 6 months ago 

    religion 101 condensed: http:/http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/rape_and_honor_in_saudi_arabia.asp/

    • what greater panoply of evil is there in literature than the one commission by the alleged god of abraham? how many direct mandates for incest and slavery and rape and genocide and erstwhile offenses to the free intelligence must a devout jew, christian, or muslim read through before admitting that their respective compendia as they’ve hitherto survived just *might* not be the perfect texts of a morally infallible deity? i’ve grown to be afraid of these people, i really have. when reason is one’s only rhetorical aegis, so distinct an indifference to it on the other side is a scary foe with which to find one’s self confronted indeed; i’ll certainly be staying away from saudi arabia. 

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  3. 6 months ago 
    "Yes, Obama duped young people by not doing every single thing they want. So now, they’ll all vote Republican. It’s like when I want some bread, I won’t settle for half a loaf. Instead, I will have a muffin made of broken glass."
    - Stephen Colbert
  4. 1 year ago 
  5. 1 year ago 

    i admitted that when my hostess first asked for help cleaning her room, i was…annoyed. but now i’ve something new to admit…that this ‘cleaning’ stuff is…pretty gratifying. my maid must be so happy to’ve given up medicine in her own country for it. 

  6. 1 year ago 
  7. 1 year ago 

    adolfo placeat 

  8. 1 year ago 
  9. 1 year ago 

    fair, behind every powerful man is a powerful woman. but bent over infront of him? his respite from her…sure is fortuitous that he’s in the middle like that to keep them from seeing each other o_o

  10. 1 year ago 
    I think in my most feckless trek I’ve never met a fool like Beck a man so drenched with his own tears  he’ll oft forget that No One Cares a “clown” so deep in “rodeo”  that God’s own will he’s claimed to know admittedly, mind; that’s his schtick confessed astride the rightist dick  and bigoted; inimical clung tightly to his putrid bull and here a prophet, there a seer would he impersonate and swear that in alleged “ailing health” he’s similar to Christ himself in urging us our gold to sell? a shame not crucified as well professing others saved or lost? would that *he* had been on that cross for authenticity’s sake, né? and then the jews come out to play! they’d trek from mountains, plains, and hills  sure, meet their share of fools, but still I pray in *my* most feckless treck to *never* meet a fool like Beck. I’d but sit down and think just “how to end this profligate’s life now”

    I think in my most feckless trek

    I’ve never met a fool like Beck

    a man so drenched with his own tears 

    he’ll oft forget that No One Cares

    a “clown” so deep in “rodeo” 

    that God’s own will he’s claimed to know

    admittedly, mind; that’s his schtick

    confessed astride the rightist dick 

    and bigoted; inimical

    clung tightly to his putrid bull

    and here a prophet, there a seer

    would he impersonate and swear

    that in alleged “ailing health”

    he’s similar to Christ himself

    in urging us our gold to sell?

    a shame not crucified as well

    professing others saved or lost?

    would that *he* had been on that cross

    for authenticity’s sake, né?

    and then the jews come out to play!

    they’d trek from mountains, plains, and hills 

    sure, meet their share of fools, but still

    I pray in *my* most feckless treck

    to *never* meet a fool like Beck.

    I’d but sit down and think just “how

    to end this profligate’s life now”

     
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