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Liberty.
“A state system, no matter what state system it is, functions at a far removal from the requirements of Christ.”
— Leo Tolstoy.
(Source: kurtlac, via racheldotgov)
“A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza […] is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite: Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does.
This self-flattering depiction of the US as uninvolved, neutral party is the worst media fiction since TV news personalities covered the Arab Spring by pretending that the US is and long has been on the side of the heroic democratic protesters, rather than the key force that spent decades propping up the tyrannies they were fighting.”
— Glenn Greenwald, “Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza.”
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.”
— Aldous Huxley.
(Source: sol-psych, via jitterbug-nocturne)
Los Angeles City Council endorses 'Meatless Mondays'
From the City Council that declared war on trans-fats and fast-food restaurants comes the latest way to make residents feel, well, guilty about what they eat.
The Los Angeles council, in a 14-0 vote on Friday, adopted a resolution urging residents to adopt a personal pledge to have a “meatless Monday.”
While it does not have the force of law and police will not be checking what you brought to work for lunch, city officials said they hope it will start a trend, make residents healthier and reduce the impact on the environment.
Is nothing sacred?
It’s not enforced by threat of violence… yet. First, I’m sure, will be the schools - where government control is strongest. Some will voluntarily enact “Meatless Mondays” out of ideological solidarity, though others will do so to win the good graces of superiors. Eventually, entire districts will mandate vegetarian-only meals once a month, and eventually once a week. No doubt there are food providers who would be happy to comply. (Though considering what they use as “meat” in government schools, maybe I shouldn’t complain…) And is it that far-fetched - when governments already ban sodas over a certain size and demand certain nutritional requirements in happy meals - for the über-statist city council of Los Angeles in the über-statist state of California (whose foie gras ban went into affect a few months ago, and in which Democrats now have super-majorities in both the state assembly and the state senate) to mandate such a thing in the name of health and the environment?
And of course, all talk of “health” is laughable since for many “meatless” just means a giant plate of macaroni and cheese or pizza - gut bombs of processed, gluten-rich, corn-syrup-saturated carbs. A truly healthy meal, instead, emphasizes what human beings are most biologically tuned to eat, including healthy animal proteins and fats.
Anyway, I rummaged through my stash in the work refrigerator and, in protest, this was my lunch today:
Forgive my brief lapse in decorum, but… Suck my balls, LA City Council.
