December 21, 2011

Twitter cookie! http://t.co/oWdHpSyH

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December 10, 2011

Pretty crappy day for NBA guards with bad knees. #SayYourPrayersRayAllen

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November 20, 2011

I <3 the library + technology. Online request -> email notification -> 3 minute walk -> pickup from hold shelf -> self checkout. So easy!

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November 18, 2011
OH WAIT

OH WAIT

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“ I think it’s about time we redefine what “patriotic” is, because it’s not about wearing t-shirts with Bald Eagles breaking through them on fire holding an American Flag in its talons while shooting fireworks and drinking Bud Light, the official beer of freedom. Patriotism is caring enough about your country that you will stand outside for two months straight in an attempt to make a better, stronger, smarter country where everyone can succeed, and not just the ones who can afford a lobbyist in D.C.
sirmitchell (via grapelet)

(via youthiswasted)

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youthiswasted:

Emotionally intense images of retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis - who has joined the #OccupyWallStreet protests - being arrested by the NYPD.

Captain Lewis has been outspoken against the NYPD’s wrongful use of violence against peaceful protesters.

From what I have seen, Ray Lewis’ conduct defines honor, bravery, and dignity.

There is a media blackout on images of his participation in the protest, and on his arrest:

crosscrowdedrooms:

It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere.  I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph.  One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/

Make this viral and they will come.

Ray Lewis gets 2 posts this morning, because this needs to be seen. I’m not even sure why, but this pair of photos made me cry hysterically.

oh my god. so much props to this man. this country has turned into utter fucking insanity. 

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Send Winter Weather Gear to the Occupations: http://t.co/evJMItL7. I just donated $500. #OccupyWallSt #OWS #OccupyWinter

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November 17, 2011

Why is the Dept. of Homeland Security wasting time/resources coordinating violent crackdowns on #OccupyWallSt? http://t.co/3hOPH8sE

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November 16, 2011

RT @juliacreinhart: #ows protester: “the cops have occupied #Zuccotti Park, we’re just trying to figure out what their demands are …”

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November 11, 2011

This is the day we pretend we haven’t already dishonored them

Picture a high school senior watching the WTC towers fall in 2011. Horrified but soon resolute, he applies to West Point, and despite the competition, he gets in. He starts at the academy in fall of 2002. Four hard years later, he graduates and starts active service as a 2nd Lieutenant. It’s summer 2006, so it’s no surprise that he’s deployed to Iraq. Maybe he would have only spent a year or two there, but “the surge” began in 2007, so the army kept him in Iraq.  Unlike some of his peers who were shifted to Afghanistan or elsewhere, he spends substantially all of his five years of required active duty in Iraq.

Now it’s 2011, and though he has three years in the reserves ahead of him, his required active duty is over. Ten years after 9/11 and having embarked on the most patriotic path he and most others could come up with at the time, he looks back and realizes: I have done nothing to defend or better this country in that decade.

He thinks: I helped attack and patrol a place that never hosted our enemies until we brought or created them there.

He reflects: I was paid to destroy abroad when I should have been building at home.

He allows himself a moment of pity, not undeservedly: I was among the best and brightest of my generation, selected for my desire and ability to serve; my country invested time and treasure to develop my skills; and yet all of that was wasted.

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