October 2011
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The Politics of Love
An opportunity to be with an interesting, sweet and charming guy recently closed for me (in a messy fashion, to boot) because of differences in how we viewed love. Otherwise highly progressive, he followed society’s traditional standards of romance: relationships are to be monogamous, sex is not meant to be casual, and gender roles in terms of courtship should be followed. Me, on the other...
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Karzai Says Afghanistan Would Back Pakistan in a... →
If Pakistan were ever to go to war against India or the U.S. It’s heartening to see that the government of Afghanistan is standing up for themselves; it’s disheartening to see that alliances are not spoken in terms of peace and cooperation, but in the language of conflict.
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“You can teach a man to fish and he will learn to eat his whole life but if you...”
– Ned Hepburn: Fuck the 53%.
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“Where is my faith? Even deep down, there is nothing but emptiness and darkness....”
– Mother Teresa
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“On Salman Rushdie: ‘flaccid fuckhead;’ on Roald Dahl: ‘a scary...”
– Maurice Sendak, writer of Where the Wild Things Are
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Bullshit politics
There are many reasons why the political system has and always will be corrupt, and why the American political system is so broken. But from my involvement in politics in my local community, I have to say that one of the major reasons is the type of people who go into politics.
I am involved in representing the Asian and Asian American community to other groups; this involves other minority...
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“It is an important thing to instill in a younger generation about the impact of...”
– Jon Hamm (can this man get any more attractive?) 