links for 2009-03-24
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"Also, I think I’ve forgotten that a lot of people think of sex as this inherently personal and intimate thing. Like one’s sexual and spiritual selves are entirely inseparable. Intertwined, sure. But I don’t have to rely on my sexual self and the partners (both during work and for fun) for my sense of self. I know that I am just as much me before fucking a 60 yr old business man as I am afterward. This does not in any way 'degrade' my personality, decrease my intelligence, or damage my soul. Just like everyone else, I’m working towards better self esteem and a simultaneously flexible and secure sense of self. As far as I can tell, sex work is mostly contributing to this."
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Via Rusty. This will come in handy when I retrieve my grandfather's old camera (that he used to take these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/sets/72157594257645035/) from Augusta!
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"There are plenty of people who have noticed, in recent years, that when they lost their homes to foreclosure or were forced into bankruptcy because of crippling credit-card debt, no one in the government was there to rescue them. But when Goldman Sachs — a company whose average employee still made more than $350,000 last year, even in the midst of a depression — was suddenly faced with the possibility of losing money on the unregulated insurance deals it bought for its insane housing bets, the government was there in an instant to patch the hole. That's the essence of the bailout: rich bankers bailing out rich bankers, using the taxpayers' credit card."
Via Aspasia.
Mar 24 2009 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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That Rolling Stone article was awesome. With the exception of the one snarky line about “strippers on work release” (WTF?) I was emphatically nodding along.