Interesting little para there… too bad the rest of the article is this dumb ass horseshit that seems to assume that the “defense industry” is the problem as if that weren’t inextricable from NATO and the Pentagon itself, both of which need to die. You’re telling me you can make the connection between the police brutality and NATO, but not the defense industry and NATO?
I’m enjoying AskTheRangers
Yeah, it’s obnoxiously “cutesy” but it’s pretty funny if you’re a fan. Someone should ask if they’re gonna show up in the first period this game…
OK, Let’s do this.
(Source: asktherangers)
El-P - “The Full Retard”
this thing exists and is available now and I’ve been listening all day and it’s really good and I’m not just saying that cuz has a melody from Metroid on one track.
Mario Tronti, “Our Operaismo” (via quotemarx)
mmm, more Italian Autonomists.
I watched this fight about 7 times in a row.
Especially this sequence. Dang.
I’m wrong because people have been misusing the word for a couple of hundred years instead of a couple of years?
No, NOT misusing but using one of the established meanings of the word.
By the late 17th century, though, literally was being used as an intensifier for true statements. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Dryden and Pope for this sense; Jane Austen, in Sanditon, wrote of a stormy night that, “We had been literally rocked in our bed.” In these examples, literally is used for the sake of emphasis alone. Eventually, though, literally began to be used to intensify statements that were themselves figurative or metaphorical. The earliest examples I know of are from the late 18th century, and though there are examples throughout the 19th century—often in prominent works; to my earlier examples could be added choice quotations from James Fenimore Cooper, Thackeray, Dickens, and Thoreau, among many others—no one seems to have objected to the usage until the early 20th century.
It goes on to explain some grief over not misuse, but ABUSE of one of the actual understood (!) meanings of “literally” and then classifies the word with several similar ones meaning two opposite things:
There are many such words, and they arise through various means. Called “Janus words,” “contranyms,” or “auto-antonyms,”
And how, for some reason, people never criticize “really” when it’s often used the same two ways as “literally”
and of course examples are always fun:
such “abuses” have a long and esteemed history in English. The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that “the land literally flowed with milk and honey,”nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as “literally rolling in wealth,” nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that “he literally glowed,” nor were Bach and Beethoven squeezed into a fedora when Joyce wrote in Ulysses that a Mozart piece was “the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat.” Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the authors we are often told to emulate.
Please do click and read and come. the fuck. off it. so that yknow, let’s lay this debate to rest finally and all you strict grammar whiners can go cry about something else that makes you feel superior I guess.
You want to reappropriate life for yourselves?
In the meantime, destroy the bosses that are in you, destroy the capitalistic characteristics within you. Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.†
from «Le operaie della casa», June-July, ‘76
†Yes, vaccuums. Vacuum cleaners. Aspiratori. (As in, that which gobbles up without limit.) A remarkable line, as it figures men both as the endless void that swallows up unpaid labor and as the very tool – the industrially produced machine – that’s part of that labor, which allegedly “lightens the load” and “makes housework a breeze!” No, not a breeze. A tremendous sucking of time.
(via e-schatology)
oh love those Italian Autonomistas.
(Source: thenewinquiry.com)
Chris Kreider’s goal celebrations are easily my favorite so far this post-season.
OK, Let’s do this.
