Flickers on the Wall

Flickers of thoughts and ideas, they might be as pretty as candlelight on the ceiling or as gross as a booger on the wall.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens,along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.

—Thomas Young, a disabled Iraq War veteran, who is now in hospice care and slowly dying as a result of his injuries in a letter addressed to former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. (via MoveOn)

(Source: kileyrae, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

shortformblog: thedailywhat: White House Petition of the Day: Make Legislators Wear Logos of Corporate Backers The latest brilliant idea to come out of We The People website is this petition suggesting that lawmakers should be required to be more transparent about their financial backers by wearing logos of their corporate “sponsors,” just like the NASCAR drivers do. As of Thursday evening, it has accrued more than 9,000 of the 100,000 signatures it needs to be formally addressed by the White House. GOOD magazine previously explored this idea with photoshopped mockups of New York Senator Charles Schumer and Florida Senator Marco Rubio donning logo patches of their contributors on their suits. Hat tip goes to Dangerous Minds. Not likely to go anywhere (just NASCAR drivers, who drive in circles), but sort of amazing.

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thedailywhat:

White House Petition of the Day: Make Legislators Wear Logos of Corporate Backers

The latest brilliant idea to come out of We The People website is this petition suggesting that lawmakers should be required to be more transparent about their financial backers by wearing logos of their corporate “sponsors,” just like the NASCAR drivers do. As of Thursday evening, it has accrued more than 9,000 of the 100,000 signatures it needs to be formally addressed by the White House. GOOD magazine previously explored this idea with photoshopped mockups of New York Senator Charles Schumer and Florida Senator Marco Rubio donning logo patches of their contributors on their suits.

Hat tip goes to Dangerous Minds.

Not likely to go anywhere (just NASCAR drivers, who drive in circles), but sort of amazing.

(via current)

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devidsketchbook:

Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie

Mike Brodie (tumblr | facebook) first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.

LOVE this series!

(via ryanhatesthis)

everygreatsongever:

thiswholeworld:

tastysynapse:

Zen Pencils Comic

So beautiful. 

Getting moist-eyed here. Many, many people are familiar with this piece of writing, but not enough, in my opinion. I really think it’s one of the most important things written in the entire 20th Century, when a lot of important things were written. This renders it so, so well.

(via ghannoum)

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via mer-se)

(Source: pigmenting, via mer-se)