June 2012
Pretty Kinky Things: The Broke College Student Kink Kit →
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Alright, so I know you can see lists like this everywhere, but I’m putting together my own. While I stumbled into a large selection of toys for 100 dollars, not everyone has friends who are leaving the lifestyle.
The Broke College Student Kink Kit
- Bag of clothes pins, either plastic or…
Play
No More in Life
Little Willie John
Little Willie John - No More In Life
“Little Willie John was a soul singer before anybody thought to call it that. I don’t understand why people miss Sam Cooke so, and not Little Willie John… I don’t deny Sam was great, no, ma’am. I guess Willie John never made it to the Copa. People forget where you been, and get it stuck in their minds where you ain’t been.” - James Brown
“A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.”
—Isaac Asimov (via fuckyeahiasimov)
This…this can be true of my office too, right…
“When someone works for less pay than she can live on - when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently - then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The “working poor,” as there are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.”
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Barbara Ehrenreich, “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America”
I recently read this book, and while several observations and statistics stuck out to me, this quote, on the last page, I believe really sums things up quite well.
(via lostgrrrls)
Forget the billionaire “job creators” — our working poor are really the ones supporting our economy.
(via stfuconservatives)
May 2012
“The daily experience of the self is so familiar, and yet the brain science shows that this sense of the self is an illusion. Psychologist Susan Blackmore makes the point that the word ‘illusion’ does not mean that it does not exist — rather, an illusion is not what it seems. We all certainly experience some form of self, but what we experience is a powerful depiction generated by our brains for our own benefit.”
—The Self Illusion – how our social brain constructs who we are (via explore-blog)