Month: March 2012

To call #GeorgeZimmerman a monster is too easy. And it lets everyone off the hook. Nah. He’s not a monster; he’s an American—acting and behaving in the way that DEFINES what it means to be truly American. Let us deal with THAT.

Son of Baldwin, for #TrayvonMartin (via sonofbaldwin)

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

Noam Chomsky (via nc4l)

Fuck St. Patrick

swimmingunder:

I would like to go on record saying – fuck St. Patrick. That murderous pagan hating Christian asshat. We all know that “driving the snakes out of Ireland” is a euphemism for killing the Druids, right?

Fuck that guy. I move to call March 17 Cú Chulainn’s Day. He’s a real Irish hero.

liber000:

I AM
Blessed and I AM cursed
Gone through
The worst
Or at least that’s the way
That it seems
God’s given me this task
And I do where this mask, given to me
Brought to flesh to terrestrial beings
I have had many names
Been brought down
In shame
Yet never fallen
Not even an inch
Man was created by God
Yet is I who’s his dog
Obedient till the end yes indeed
It’s in my blood
It is my creed
To do what I am asked
I adore
And I bask
In these feelings
And loves’
Dis ease

AUMGN
LIBER
000

castingcircles:

Erzulie: Haitian Goddess of Love

Erzulie, or Ezili, is the Vodou Lwa (spirit or goddess) of love and women. She has many forms, from coquette to fierce warrior mother to red-eyed weeping crone, and can be counted among either the Rada or Petwo lwa (spirits or gods). The Petwo rites arose in the New World during slavery, and Petwo lwa are characteristically dark and powerful, and called bitter (anme). Erzulie is a love goddess who developed during a time when slave owners broke up families and separated husbands and wives at will, and considered raping female slaves a pleasant way to produce more slaves.

Erzulie manifests deep, deep passion, and Her moods can range from the height of joy to the depths of misery—when She mounts (spiritually possesses) a follower she or he goes from coquettish and seductive to crying her or himself to sleep, weeping for the limitations of love.

There are numerous sister forms of Erzulie, and She is sometimes considered a triple goddess. As such She has three husbands—Damballah (the sky god), Agwe (the sea god), and Ogoun (a god of fire and iron), and She wears three wedding bands.

Offerings to Erzulie are all the sweet things She loves—perfume, sweet food, and desserts such as bananas fried in sugar.

No less insidious is the cry for ‘revolution,’ at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a ‘revolution’ in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.

Noam Chomsky, American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 (via doctorofnothing)

armchairpatriots:

Wow, did we piss a few people off with this one on our facebook page today. FUN!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Armchair-Patriots/173343349350173

This is what I have been on about. The so-called opposition party needs to call this shit out. Contraception is a separate issue than abortion. Have one, get less of the other. Why the fuck doesn’t Obama just come out and say, “I’m against abortions, that’s why I advocate contraception.” (PS In case you don’t know, Obama is on the record as being anti-choice.)

Why doesn’t he do it? He’s a fucking DEMOCRAT not a liberal or a man of conscious. He wants to play both sides as close as he can.