We were outback and I kicked over an empty plastic cup with my heels and was about to walk back inside when this white guy with dreads grabbed my by the throat and started shoving me back to where the cup was and was screaming at me to pick up the cup and put it in the trash can “like a human…
You were a “victim of semiromantic anarchism
In its most irrational form.”
I was “ill at ease in an ambiguous world."
from the devils by Charles Simic (quoted from Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kowalski on German Philosopher Herbert Marcuse)
January 3, 2012
E CONCHIS OMNIA: A friend and I were assaulted by the staff at Barbarella in Austin last night. →
9:16 pm
December 24, 2011
merry xmas from space
WISE Says ‘Merry Christmas’ With a Nebulous Wreath
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is getting into a festive mood this Christmas after imaging a beautiful nebula called Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring G159.6-18.5.
Nicknamed the “Wreath Nebula” by mission scientists, Bernard 3 does have some familiarity with the green and red wreath hanging peacefully on your neighbor’s door. But looks can be deceiving.
December 21, 2011
11:44 pm
this is so not sublime. but so beautiful.
December 12, 2011
2:14 pm
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
December 9, 2011
December 7, 2011
2:11 pm
from ivan illich, notes on revolutionary tourism
If you have any sense of responsibility at all, stay with your riots here at home. Work for the coming elections: You will know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how to communicate with those to whom you speak. And you will know when you fail. If you insist on working with the poor, if this is your vocation, then at least work among the poor who can tell you to go to hell. It is incredibly unfair for you to impose yourselves on a village where you are so linguistically deaf and dumb that you don’t even understand what you are doing, or what people think of you. And it is profoundly damaging to yourselves when you define something that you want to do as “good,” a “sacrifice” and “help.”
I am here to suggest that you voluntarily renounce exercising the power which being an American gives you. I am here to entreat you to freely, consciously and humbly give up the legal right you have to impose your benevolence on Mexico. I am here to challenge you to recognize your inability, your powerlessness and your incapacity to do the “good” which you intended to do.
I am here to entreat you to use your money, your status and your education to travel in Latin America. Come to look, come to climb our mountains, to enjoy our flowers. Come to study. But do not come to help.
December 5, 2011
maybe the rich now have a refuge to go to when the planet becomes too poor to sustain them.
Newly Found Alien Planet Could Host Life
The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, orbits smack in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.
Previous research had hinted at the existence of such Earth-like planets, where liquid water could exist, but this is the first time such a life-friendly alien planet has been confirmed.
The planet is about 2.4 times wider around than Earth. It’s still unknown whether Kepler-22b has a rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a milestone to finding Earth-like planets.
“This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin,” Douglas Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington said
7:49 pm
a conspiracy theory of my own
thinking about selena today, i wondered what if yolanda saldivar was a lee harvey oswald type, and contracted by the US government to kill a rising (and positive) icon of mexicans, chicanos, and tejanos?
i know. sounds crazy, right?
7:44 pm
gentrification is modern day colonization.
linking the university to the FBI →
6:57 pm
with the developments of bianca’s USAS campaign and the fact that the university keeps sending letters to her parents’ house just illustrates how powerful the institutions are becoming; and UT president bill powers is on it to keep tabs on students who disagree with the direction of our university.
In 2010, Spanier chose Katehi to join an elite team of twenty college presidents on what’s called the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, which “promotes discussion and outreach between research universities and the FBI.”
Spanier said upon the group’s founding in 2005, “The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board promises to help universities and government work toward a balanced and rational approach that will allow scientific research and education to progress and our nation to remain safe.” He also said that the partnership could help provide “internships” to faculty and students interested in “National Security issues.”
FBI chief Robert Mueller said at a press conference with Spanier, “We knew it would not be necessarily an easy sell because of the perceived tension between law enforcement and academia. But once we’ve briefed President Spanier on the national security threats that impact all of you here at Penn State and at other universities, it became clear to all of us why this partnership is so important. “
