May 30 2012
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Running into the one professor I can’t stand to see in the stairwell.
May 28 2012
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MettaWorldIdiot.
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Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!
So imperfect it’s perfect.
[thanks, rob!]
omg i cried
i’m sobbing like a baby right now
why am i crying.
I am such a hopeless romantic, I cried. This is the sweetest thing ever.
CUTEST. VIDEO. EVER.
i’m crying, laughing, and smiling at the same time right now. this is such an AMAZING video and proposal.
welp my expectations are now basically impossible to reach
IM FUCKING TEARING UP….
this is incredible.
I had those happy goosebumps all the way through this. its pure adorable :’)
The feels lol
Greatest proposal EVER!
(via jerkyourmind)
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French president: All combat troops out in 2012
French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France’s combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics.
The new French leader, making good on one of the major foreign-policy promises of his campaign, confirmed in a one-day visit to Afghanistan that all of France’s 2,000 combat troops would be brought home by the end of this year — putting France on a fast-track exit timetable that sparked consternation among some allies at a NATO summit in Chicago early this week.
May 25 2012
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Google Map of Murders in the DC area 2005-2011
DC’s stratification truly breaks my heart sometimes. What you see on tv is not the full picture.
(Source: theleafyteapot)
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So obsessed with this city! Also, this picture is solid proof of why I hate going to cool places with people. This was about as close as I could get to anything besides the White House because my family was in a rush to get back and watch a TV show.
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Dekalb Market and Incubator Farm
ORE Design + Technology (the same group who brought you the Pop-up Farm) brings you Dekalb market, located in downtown Brooklyn. The market is an open-air gathering space that brings together makers, entrepreneurs, chefs and artists. Dekalb Market encompasses an incubator farm, an event space and a collection of eateries and work-sell spaces, the project transformed an inactive brownfield eyesore into a thriving community of small businesses.
Must find time to check this out.
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Putnam's Landing: MDGs not WMDs
I very much agree with her last two sentences, but I can’t get over the fact that people bought and wore Jeff Sachs shirts….
I am re-reading an old book from college days: The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. Graduating from Columbia University in 2006, Sachs was a big name on campus. His push for the Millennium Development Goals led to political discussions and excitement on campus.
A small group of students created an organization which sold T-shirts to raise awareness about Sustainable Development. The t-shirts read “Sustainable Development is Sexy” and “Jeffrey Sachs is my homeboy.” Shirts were sold to raise funds for mosquito nets to prevent Malaria in Africa. Since then, there have been controversies about mosquito nets as a part of the conversation about foreign aid and the distribution of hand-outs. That being said, those t-shirts mark a time in my life when I began to think about international development in another context.
One of my favorite t-shirts read: “MDGs not WMDs” or Millennium Development Goals not Weapons of Mass Destruction. Despite my criticism of many foreign aid movements and organizations, I still whole-heartedly agree with Jeffrey Sachs on this issue.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has launched a war on terror, but it has neglected the deeper causes of global instability. The $450 billion that the United States will spend this year on the military will never buy peace if it continues to spend around one thirtieth of that, just $15 billion, to address the plight of the world’s poorest of the poor, whose societies are destabilized by extreme poverty and thereby become havens of unrest, violence, and even global terrorism.
In Guatemala, we read in the newspaper everyday about the spread of narco-trafficantes and the violence along the Mexico border. However, we fail to acknowledge that the need for the drug trade stems from the same need felt by rural families in the Guatemalan highlands: lack of an income. Poverty is often the cause, as well as the effect, of destabilization, violence and political corruption in developing nations.
