February 2012
January 2012
“A nation’s journalists and writers, like its poets and story-tellers, are the...”
– Russell Banks, American Author, to colleagues during a PEN International mission to Mexico that is encouraging law enforcement to better protect journalists.
As the Committee to Protect Journalists notes, 43 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2006 (via fotojournalismus)
this is like a train wreck
terrible
yet you can’t look away
compelling
in a disgusting lip curling way
there is no rhyme or reason
to 4am
it just is
and there is no rhyme or reason
to death
or fearlessness
or peace
and happiness
but it is
and for a moment
i am
-j&
Robert Reich: The Biggest Risk to the Economy in... →
robertreich:
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos a few days ago, said the “critical risks” facing the American economy this year were a worsening of Europe’s chronic sovereign debt crisis and a rise in tensions with Iran that could stoke global oil prices.
What about…
“The courage to love truth is one of the preconditions to thinking critically.”
– Dr. Cornel West (via apoplecticskeptic)
“When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees (via thelionseyes)
