Noticing what you notice

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

David Foster Wallace. Up, Simba

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August282012

daveosculation:

obama’s youtube ads are skippable, romney’s aren’t

i hope you think long and hard about who you’re going to vote for

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July272012

ndenacha:

Lógica gringa.

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July242012

missatralissa:

tumbledore-:

Finally, a political movement we can all agree upon.

YES

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July192012

fishingboatproceeds:

Mitt Romney isn’t the only rich person who is out of touch with the reality of middle class experience. (I would argue that Obama—who is also plenty rich—is out of touch, too.)

But it is truly, truly astonishing that Romney referred to “the waiters and waitresses THAT come in,” because of course you do not say THAT when you are referring to people. (You say who.)

You say THAT when you are referring to objects.

I realize this is a common grammatical mistake, but the fact is, Romney has great grammar. He says who all the time when referring to people. But when referring to service workers, he said that.

I hope he apologizes.

In answer to my last post, I would like to point out that sometimes grammar does matter. A lot.

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July132012

iamateenagefeminist:

barackobama:

Powerless not to re-blog.

Barack Obama’s tumblr is now posting cat memes?!

Go home everyone, he won.

Someone call Mitt Romney, it’s over.

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June302012