Category Archives: Check this out

The Righteous and the Sinners

Posted on September 27, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on Great Middle Way:
“We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other…

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Present-Tense Anthropology™

Posted on September 12, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2BfJKRpJR8/UpermRNc92I/AAAAAAAABJw/KirXDcGGG4s/s1600/ARMCHAIR+IMGP0185+crop.jpg “It isn’t revolutionaries and terrorist who make the nuclear power plants melt of blow their tops, or the electricity grids crash, or the automated trading systems go all higgeldy-piggeldy and write their billions down…

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Irrigation Canal Codex by Luis Alberto Urrea

Posted on August 24, 2015 by randomyriad

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Y los muchachos cling to the cantina’s jukebox heart, sing: we never go nowhere we never see nothing but work: these fingers bleed every daylong day, aching from la joda of the harvest– y la…

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Tilda Reads Rumi So Perfectly

Posted on July 26, 2015 by randomyriad

Tilda Swinton can read anything for me anytime she wants to. I would even listen to 50 Shades of Gray or Ayn Rand, if she would only breathe her magic into them. How does a woman enter poetry and live … Continue reading →

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Judith: The Buffy of the Bible

Posted on July 17, 2015 by randomyriad

She is so badass she cuts his head off and doesn’t even get any blood on her. Here are some brilliant, scary and weird illustrations of Judith in action or soon after the deed. The look on her face says … Continue reading →

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