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Scrubs;
Saturday Night Live;
My Name is Earl;
Dharma & Greg;
The L Word;
Weeds
The Daily Show;
The Colbert Report;
Absolutely Fabulous;That 70's Show;
Def Poetry;
Anything with the Wayan's family in it (Wayans Bros, In Living Color);
South Park;
The Boondocks;
Chappelles Show;
Robot Chicken;
Cheers;
RoseAnne;
The Simpsons;
All in the Family;
Family Guy;
"The History of Drugs" Series on the History Channel
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READ IN 2008:
1. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin
2. My Country Versus Me by Wen Ho Lee
3. Perfect Weight by Jordan Rubin
4. "Book of Dreams" by Sylvia Browne's
No matter what the culture and what the explanation, the characteristics of the experience the sleeper goes through are universal and, to put it mildly, really startling. If you're someone who suffers from astral catalepsy, chances are it includes one of more of the following symptoms:
*paralysis,
*a feeling of being pressed or pinned down by an unseen evil presence,
* loud noises, ranging from buzzing or humming to an insane, chaotic clamor,
* a pervasive, overwhelming vibration,
*a sense of something or someone threatening sitting on the bed or moving the bedclothes,
*shortness or breath, usually from some sudden pressure on the chest,
*the appearance of strange lights,
*a sensation of being touched by a lewd, menacing, invisible phantom.
READ IN 2007:
1. "Listen to the Warm" by Rod McKuen;
Clouds are not the cheeks of angels you know
they're only clouds.
Friendly sometimes,
but you can never be sure.
If I had longer arms
I'd push the clouds away
or make them hang above the water somewhere else,
but I'm just a man
who needs and wants,
mostly things he'll never have.
Looking for that thing that's hardest to find-
I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.
You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.
I've never been able
to push the clouds away by myself.
Help me.
Please.
2. "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them" by Al Franken;
"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."
3. "The Psychological Profile of a Batterer" by Susan K. Golant;
All he said was, “if I couldn’t have them, I didn’t want no one else to have them.†To some, this implies that his family had become mere objects to this man rather than people. To me, it suggests that they were essential possessions: property that had to be controlled and maintained, the way a junkie would keep his drug supply.
4. "My Life" by Bill Clinton;
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.
2004, Pg 15, Paragraph 5
5. "When you ride alone, you ride with bin Laden" by Bill Maher;
"Politically, it's always been advantageous to divide people, to make America a place of warmongers versus wimps, elitists versus morons, gun nuts versus people with normal size penises. The only problem is, it's not true. Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror."
6. "New Rules" by Bill Maher;
New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.
7. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
There is no wilderness where I can hide from these things, there is no haven where I can escape them; though I travel to the ends of the earth, I find the same accursed system - I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
8. My Lifetime in Letters - Upton Sinclair
“Only the fool does not change his mind.†– Irving Fisher in letter to Upton Sinclair
"Nothing annoys people more than if one tries honestly to help them." - Albert Einstein in a letter to Upton Sinclair9. Static - Amy Goodman & David Goodman
“The stakes in the public broadcasting fight are high, says [Bill] Moyers: freedom of expression itself is under fire.â€There is a desire to silence any dissent in this country by the [Bush] administration. They practice extraordinary media manipulation. They're the most secretive administration in my seventy years. And this whole attack on me is indicative of how when anyone rises up to speak an alternative truth, an alternative vision of reality, they try to discredit them.... They have been trying to discredit the mainstream journalists for a long time so that their own right-wing media can be accepted by their constituency, in particular, as the media. So I'm targeted because my reporting on NOW was telling the stories that they didn't want told about secrecy in government, about Cheney's energy task forces, and a cover-up at the Department of Interior, about the relationship between business, corporations, and the administration. We were reporting what good muckraking journalism always reports, and they don't like that."10. The Truth (with jokes!) - Al Franken
"In politics, you can never turn the other cheek. Especially when you're fighting the Christian right."
11. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
"What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind."12. Freeing the World to Death - William Blum
"If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize-very publicly and very sincerely-to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. Then I would announce to every corner of the world that America's global military interventions have come to an end. I would then inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but- oddly enough- a foreign country. Then I would reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings, invasions and sanctions. There would be more than enough money. One year's military budget in the US is equal to more than $20,000 per hour for every hour since Jesus Christ was born. That's one year.
That's what I'd do on my first 3 days in the White House. On the 4th day, I'd be assassinated."13. The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
"The English Queen Mary , who failed to hold the French port of Calais, said that when she died, the word 'Calais' would be found written on her heart. I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do they will find two words there - "Social Justice". For that is what I have believed in and fought for during sixty-three of my eighty-four years."READ IN 2006:
1. The Best of Abbie Hoffman by Abbie Hoffman
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
2. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture by Abbie Hoffman
"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!"
3. Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason
"If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a forty-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights - you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable - you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family - you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green - you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society - you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances. The country we know and love today was built by those victories for liberalism - with the support of the American people."
4. Brain Droppings by George Carlin
"I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed."
5. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
6. Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
(A MUST READ!! YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK!)
"White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day!"
7. Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writers Activism by Alice Walker
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
8. Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore
"These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control."
9. See No Evil by Robert Baer
10. The Judas Factor - The Plot to Kill Malcolm X by Karl Evanzz
11. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Favorites of all time
The Bible;
Ecclesiastes 1: 2 "Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
3 What does man gain from all his labor
at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
and even those who are yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker;
"Shug: More than anything God loves admiration.
Celie: You saying God is vain?
Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the bible?
Shug: Yeah, Celie. Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved. Look at them trees. Notice how the trees do everything people do to get attention... except walk? Oh, yeah, this field feels like singing!"
The Princess Bride by William Goldman;
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah;
1984 by George Orwell;
"When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded."
A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley;
"True happiness must seem rather squalid compared to the overcompensations of misery."
Animal Farm by George Orwell;
"Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach;
"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."
Illusions by Richard Bach;
We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
"The message: Property is the enemy - burn it, destroy it, give it away. Don't let them make a machine out of you, get out of the system, do your thing."
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
by Abbie Hoffman
"...I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice."
Upton Sinclair, Letter to the Los Angeles Chief of Police (1928-04-07)
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always."
spoken by Mahatma Gandhi
"That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained."
spoken by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, October 4, 1963