lol read G. E. Moore

Ah, yes, the good ol’ days, back when “we” devoted hours every day to home cooking. You know, the special “we,” the one that means “You, while I’m siting over here and reading the newspaper.” #RomanticizingWomensUnpaidLabor (Via Melanie S. Pinkert)

Oh good, time to have another Wikipedia edit war over whether or not to whitewash Robert E. Lee’s career as a slaveholder and whether or not a Virginia slave-lord had some recaptured fugitives whipped for him. Did you know that [[WP:RS]] requires that you delete any views on slaveholders’ conduct in sources published before 1890 or after 1934? http://ift.tt/1h8TdQ9

So let’s pretend you’ve set up a strictly limited minimal state. Now once you give them a territorial monopoly of force, and conceded that they will be run by legal processes that the government itself directs, just who will make sure that a “libertarian” minimal state will stay limited and minimal? Of course: this is a job for Constitution Man, the world’s least effectual superhero!* http://ift.tt/1hYlrIq

X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of language change. If it weren’t for language change, we wouldn’t have Shakespeare, or T.S. Eliot, or Cervantes, or García Marquez, or Toni Morrison, or you know, languages. #GlassesUsedToBeCalledSpectacles

George Grosz’s drawings for a 1928 performance of The Good Soldier Å vejk. http://ift.tt/1uceiMd (Via Shady Characters, of course because of the use of the § section symbol: \u003Chttp://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/05/miscellany-48/>)

Why do we still have prisons? #Abolish

Why does anyone still have kings? http://ift.tt/1o0ZhuM