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THERE'S ONE LIFE, ONE LOVE, SO THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE KING
holy shit someone turned this song into a meme ikenbot: Make sure all those motherfucking boys knowwwww~ She loves me soooo~ anthony green

holy shit someone turned this song into a meme

ikenbot:

Make sure all those motherfucking boys knowwwww~

She loves me soooo~ anthony green

‎Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act.

—Paulo Coelho (via hmdynasty)

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Made my weekend

I played a 90’s hip-hop set for a wedding this past weekend when a 60 year-old Chinese man walked up to me and asked, “What was the name of the first song you played?  It rocked, I loved it.  Can you write it down on this napkin?”

*me scribbling it down

old man: “So which one is the artist? Ginuwine or Pony?

Fareed Zakaria’s Harvard 2012 commencement speech.  

I began reading his column in Time magazine as often as possible since high school and was always amazed by his ability to take complex international issues and synthesize them in a simple enough way for people like me - who were curious on how to be an informed member of society that had strong opinions and convictions for solutions to problems faced in the world today, but lacked the knowledge to do so - to understand.  His attempts to not only understand these issues should be, and are, worthy of admiration, but his willingness to stand out and come up with solutions that would improve the wide gamut of political, sociological, and economic issues that he tackles garners my highest respect.  

Watch this.  Be inspired.  Be informed.  Because, he is, without a doubt in my mind, the best international reporter out there.

ephemeraa:

Photographs from National Geographic’s new Documentary “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”

beautiful, amazing.

(via discoverynews)

alex clare - too close

where indie and dubstep make sweet, dirty, sticky love

fuckyeahdrugpolicy: May 4, 2012: Nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the border from the Laredo, Texas. Police could not confirm who was responsible for the murders but a message seen with the bodies indicated it may have been an attack by the Zetas cartel against the rival Gulf cartel. Brutal Drug War Consequences The Houston Chronicle is carrying a story with startling revelations of drug gang brutality in Mexico. Among other things, it reports of kidnapping young men and forcing them to engage in contests to the death in order to find and recruit killers. This made me wonder what kinds of things deter people from behaving like this, and what kinds of conditions produce this kind of behavior.  1. The state forbids something, like drugs. 2. Production MUST therefore be illegal, and production will occur because the demand doesn’t disappear when the drug is made illegal. 3. Going illegal is a necessary condition for all those who are willing to produce and supply the drug. The profit motive remains, even heightens, and so there will always be people who will go illegal. 4. The people attracted into the illegal business are going to be the people who already have the least inhibitions about doing anything immoral and illegal. They are the ones most willing to take risks. 5. Competition is all within illegality. This means that moral rules that govern peaceful competition do not prevail among the suppliers. They therefore select among any actions and rules that bring them survival, profits, and growth. The most effective means of gaining market share and preventing the incursion of rivals within a situation of illegal rivalry will include a reputation and readiness to kill and maim so as to enforce one’s will. 6. The means include corrupting law enforcement. This is virtually a necessity and always occurs in these conditions. The results include gang warfare. It also includes uneasy peace among gangs and division into territories and fiefdoms. 7. The competition need not lead to the practices mentioned in this article whose aim is to find and groom the most merciless killers. Yet it probably happened in the 1920s gangs that this mode of competition also prevailed as the many stories of Capone suggest. Most gangster movies also depict that the more brutal gangsters rise to the top. I don’t claim that this is a complete explanation of what’s going on, but I did want to make the point that what’s going on in Mexico is not a random thing and not a peculiarly Mexican thing. These things often have rational explanations. It’s akin to terrorism and assassination and other forms of violence in that respect. There are often reasons that we can find that explain it even if the behavior is awful. 

fuckyeahdrugpolicy:

May 4, 2012: Nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the border from the Laredo, Texas. Police could not confirm who was responsible for the murders but a message seen with the bodies indicated it may have been an attack by the Zetas cartel against the rival Gulf cartel.

Brutal Drug War Consequences

The Houston Chronicle is carrying a story with startling revelations of drug gang brutality in Mexico. Among other things, it reports of kidnapping young men and forcing them to engage in contests to the death in order to find and recruit killers. This made me wonder what kinds of things deter people from behaving like this, and what kinds of conditions produce this kind of behavior. 

1. The state forbids something, like drugs.

2. Production MUST therefore be illegal, and production will occur because the demand doesn’t disappear when the drug is made illegal.

3. Going illegal is a necessary condition for all those who are willing to produce and supply the drug. The profit motive remains, even heightens, and so there will always be people who will go illegal.

4. The people attracted into the illegal business are going to be the people who already have the least inhibitions about doing anything immoral and illegal. They are the ones most willing to take risks.

5. Competition is all within illegality. This means that moral rules that govern peaceful competition do not prevail among the suppliers. They therefore select among any actions and rules that bring them survival, profits, and growth. The most effective means of gaining market share and preventing the incursion of rivals within a situation of illegal rivalry will include a reputation and readiness to kill and maim so as to enforce one’s will.

6. The means include corrupting law enforcement. This is virtually a necessity and always occurs in these conditions. The results include gang warfare. It also includes uneasy peace among gangs and division into territories and fiefdoms.

7. The competition need not lead to the practices mentioned in this article whose aim is to find and groom the most merciless killers. Yet it probably happened in the 1920s gangs that this mode of competition also prevailed as the many stories of Capone suggest. Most gangster movies also depict that the more brutal gangsters rise to the top.

I don’t claim that this is a complete explanation of what’s going on, but I did want to make the point that what’s going on in Mexico is not a random thing and not a peculiarly Mexican thing. These things often have rational explanations. It’s akin to terrorism and assassination and other forms of violence in that respect. There are often reasons that we can find that explain it even if the behavior is awful. 

(via ikenbot)