the end is the beginning is the end

the end is the beginning is the end

:: 2005 16 May :: 6.42 pm

the things we created to bring us together have only torn us apart.

:: 2005 16 May :: 2.24 am

activists are freaking hot.

women activists in cultures that treat them as nothing but baby-making, dinner-cooking, laundry-washing objects, good for sex every now and then, are fucking goddesses.

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:: 2005 14 May :: 3.44 pm

just spell it out for us, Madison
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home."

"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood."

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties."

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

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:: 2005 14 May :: 2.55 am

i'd like you to meet someone

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:: 2005 10 May :: 11.32 pm

from "The Hours"
Clarissa Vaughn: Alright Richard, do me one, simple favor: Come. Come sit...

Richard Brown: I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa.

Clarissa Vaughn: Uh... You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.

Richard Brown: But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...

Clarissa Vaughn: You do have good days still... You know you do.

Richard Brown: Not really... I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true.

:: 2005 9 May :: 1.41 pm

don't move
stay right where you are
talking can only give you away
so nothing to say

the voices say hello
imprisoned, they're invisible
we look a lot alike
we look a lot alike

this is boring
all we talk about is you
come on, give me a reason
a boy and his machine gun

when you're finished struggling
are you free tonight?
did they stick you in here
cause you weren't working right?

don't move
stay just like you are
you look sane, motionless like that
so very flat
it's amazing what velocity can do
when human beings are in season
a boy and his machine gun
if you're quiet, we might see some!

when you're finished struggling
are you free tonight?
did they stick you in here
cause you weren't working right?

there's a tv in every room
and it's free, even pay-per-view
which you'll need if no one's gonna visit you, animal
animal

i know who you're waiting for
no one's coming, though
no one's coming, though

so, fuck you and your principles
and fuck whatever made me
perhaps you think i'm evil
what does it matter if we're crazy?

:: 2005 3 May :: 1.04 am

are you going to do something that matters?

ever?

:: 2005 29 April :: 1.01 am

rape