January 2011
41 posts
please help us
Lyon-Martin Health Services Announces Plan to Close Clinic
SAN FRANCISCO- January 25th, 2011- After over 30 years of providing compassionate, respectful health care to women and transgender people, Lyon-Martin Health Services will be closing its doors. The Lyon-Martin Board of Directors announced today that it has become financially impossible to continue operating, and has made the difficult...
It is not all about the music. That is some privileged bullshit.
Yes, the music is wonderful. But it is only one aspect of counter-culture expression. Rage, fear, hate, desire, twitchiness, boredom, cleverness, sluttiness, confusion, activism, and glee are conveyed not only in the music but also in attire, presentation, affectations, food and living choices, social interaction, financial...
hunger
When you ask me why you have to pay more for less meat I do not think you want me to tell you about how climate change is affecting food markets worldwide. I do not think you want to hear about the grave consequences of a homogeneous zero-competitor system of industrial farming. You have already heard more than you want to about the global recession. You would probably not be amused by my...
“The Kapo comes to us periodically and asks, ‘Wer hat noch zu...”
– Primo Levi, “Survival In Auschwitz”
The idea of an ethical butcher is intensely irritating to me. Coddle your lamb and slaughter it painlessly, but to argue that the forced and NONCONSENSUAL taking of another life to fuel your own body and temporarily forestall your own death (keeping in mind that there are alternatives to this killing available) is in no way an ethical practice. I agree that it is more ethical than the hideous...
MEIN TEIL →
the Master Butcher
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. ...
Omnivore is a word that should be much more disturbing than it is in common practice.
