not the motorcycle diaries

“A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity [sic] - and liberty is finally added by sleep.”

- attributed to Nietzsche but, like everything else at this point in thesis writing, I can’t find the citation.

I was thoroughly uninspired by the antipope actions going on around town. Until this.

I found this a therapeutic read for my own full-body walk through the drowsing and dyspeptic valley of paroxetine:

“… there is particular significance in the oral administration of antidepressants: there is an intimate connection between the gut and depression, making intervention via the gut an especially felicitous means of treatment for depressed mood (Wilson, 2004a). (…). In most cases, the gut itself is not the target of therapeutic action; the drug is being released into the body some distance from its intended site of action (Katzung, 2001). The pathways from the gut to that target site are often circuitous, and it is these pathways that have arrested my critical interest … the physiological itinerary of an antidepressant takes in every organ of the body. (more…)

I thought this would be OK to pass on now that the schism is mended and all.

Tho I cant fgr out how 2 snd it to his mobez :/

“Bolivia calza hoy como piecita pequeña, sirve de dato para confirmar el sabotaje malvado del sistema capitalista contra un indígena presidente. Bolivia sirve para decir frases celebres sobre los pueblos indígenas, o poner en una línea paralela de peligrosísima y delicadísima similitud Palestina, los Balcanes, Afganistán o cualquier otro punto del planeta.

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Quiero decir que somos actoras y acotres socialise corresponsables y no simples victimas de un proceso neocolonial.”

- Extracto de Carta abierta a Naomi Klein, por Maria Galindo de Mujeres Creando, mayo 2008.

“Bolivia fits today like a little piece of pie, it serves to confirm the evil sabotage of the capitalist system against an indigenous president. Bolivia serves for the saying of celebratory words about indigenous peoples, or to place [oneself] on a parallel line of high danger and great delicacy similar to Palestine, the Balkans, Afghanistan or any other [such] point of the planet.

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I want to say that we are corresponsible social actors [male and female] and not simple victims of a neocolonial process.”

- Extract from Open letter to Naomi Klein, by Maria Galindo of Mujeres Creando, May 2008.

(weak english translation brought to you by ana australiana).

I’m having an interesting time trawling virtual and dusty papers from that fun period of 2002 - 2006 when immigration detention activism was all the rage. Do any readers know of/have any critiques from that time (within loosely ‘anti-detention’ activism/debates) regarding the work of groups like ChilOut and the Circles of Friends?

PS Go, go, go RTBU!

I take a break from lolpopes to bring you this:

Olympia, now aged 11 says she is proud of the photos and the Prime Minister’s comments are out of line.

“I’m really really offended by what Kevin Rudd said,” she said.

Genius.

Thanks, you freaks.