août 2011
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Iraq: 1984 →
Shamelessly self-promotional, I know. I wrote this back in 2004 and recently re-read it. I think it holds up.
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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn
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Read an Excerpt of Barbara Ehrenreich's new... →
If you haven’t read it before, read it now at its 10 year reissue. One of the more important books of our times.
utnereader:
Here’s a taste:
At the time I wrote Nickel and Dimed, I wasn’t sure how many people it directly applied to—only that the official definition of poverty was way off the mark, since it defined an individual earning $7 an hour, as I did on average, as well out of...
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“My opinion about barbell rows is as follows: fuck barbell rows. Really. Fuck...”
– Mark Rippetoe. (I agree with this so freaking much)
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“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made...”
– Eugene V. Debs
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Swimming through the hipsters
So my good friends Megan and Malcolm are getting married and I inherited took over planning duties for the bachelor party. Being the person I am, and the other party planners being who they are, we elected not to inflict upon ourselves the indignity of strippers (also, I’m allergic to body glitter). We decided instead to do a nice, understated pub crawl through downtown Spokane. Now,...
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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for...”
– Saul Bellow
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to...”
– Edward Abbey
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Random thoughts for 8.2.11
Motorcycle class is full of…interesting people, about whom I feel I could write at least two, maybe more, short stories.
Three precocious children sang Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish” on America’s Got Talent. No. Just, no.
I love children, but I recognize there are certain things 99.99999999% of them cannot do. Singing Stevie is, like, 18 of them.
I truly love...
There is a challenging, but I think important message in this article.
utnereader:
Amy Winehouse and the Pop Authenticity Trap
(via Salon)
Offstage, we watched her stumbling around London in a bedraggled beehive and a pair of dirty ballet flats, buying bags of potato chips, her tiny shorts barely supported by her toothpick-thin frame, bloodied and hollering at reporters. It was impossible...
Fifth-Year Senior: Why Making High School Longer... →
This is a VERY intriguing idea, and I can see many upsides (most neatly presented in the article), but I wonder if there are any downside I’m not seeing. Fellow teachers, thoughts?
infoneer-pulse:
After four years of high school, you were probably pretty ready to graduate. But what if you could have earned college credit if you stayed for a fifth year? Students in Maine might soon get...
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