February 2011
73 posts
January 2011
188 posts
4 tags
7 tags
3 tags
Philosophiae Naturalis: An Open Letter to... →
Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we…
innocence and enchantment: An Open Letter to... →
thenoobyorker:
Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt….
Mohandas Gandhi: An Open Letter to President... →
thenoobyorker:
Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we expect our president to uphold those values.
For thirty years, our government...
Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window.
Calvin: Isn’t it...
– Bill Watterson, There’s Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (via liquidnight)
This is the Arab world’s Berlin moment. The authoritarian wall has fallen – and...
– Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at the London School of Economics
Egypt protests - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
(via streamsofwikileaks)
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this...
crimsun:
Read More
The Road not Taken - by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally...
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet;...
– William Butler Yeats
2 tags
1 tag
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also...
– Carly Fiorina
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson (via isimplyshine)
Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to...
– Albert Einstein (via ellobofilipino)