Saturday, July 29
Friday, July 28
Saturday, July 22
Proud
to be an American, where at least I have the 'right' to not know this
WARNING: It is not sanitized, Disney-fied, or Flomax-ed for your enjoyment. It is the graphic real deal.
Some time in the last week I found myself disgusted at the documentation (irony alert--I don't remember where--it could have been satellite TV or perhaps "Why We Fight", which I recommend), the living example of fellow Americans working in the arms industry. Especially a forty-something highly educated and intellegent Vietnamese-American who'd escaped Saigon as an adolescent in 1975. She worked for one of the giants making well, things explode better. She was excellent in her field.
Why?
Aside, the political not-doing of this Administration as regards Israel. Why would someone do this 'for a living'?!?! Here in America where we define ourselves from as much. Why?
America thinks (myth) of itself as many things. One of our realities is as the largest producer of arms and weapons in the world. From the bullet to the gun to the shell to the tank to the jet to the bomb.
Israel is raining our 'product' on Palestine right now. God bless us, every one.
WARNING: It is not sanitized, Disney-fied, or Flomax-ed for your enjoyment. It is the graphic real deal.
Some time in the last week I found myself disgusted at the documentation (irony alert--I don't remember where--it could have been satellite TV or perhaps "Why We Fight", which I recommend), the living example of fellow Americans working in the arms industry. Especially a forty-something highly educated and intellegent Vietnamese-American who'd escaped Saigon as an adolescent in 1975. She worked for one of the giants making well, things explode better. She was excellent in her field.
Why?
Aside, the political not-doing of this Administration as regards Israel. Why would someone do this 'for a living'?!?! Here in America where we define ourselves from as much. Why?
America thinks (myth) of itself as many things. One of our realities is as the largest producer of arms and weapons in the world. From the bullet to the gun to the shell to the tank to the jet to the bomb.
Israel is raining our 'product' on Palestine right now. God bless us, every one.
Saturday, July 15
Wednesday, July 12
Tuesday, July 11
Saturday, July 1
No Shit!
Especially for cyclists...
Before it was "Corrected"(scrubbed), this was the original (far more interesting) story
Before it was "Corrected"(scrubbed), this was the original (far more interesting) story
Wednesday, June 28
the Bus Stop of Life
He's a humble and wise sharer. When I was 13 or so I stumbled across a copy of his collection of WWII conversations, The Good War. I ate it, and then his book on Race, up!
Studs Terkel (93!) on Our National Amnesia
Studs Terkel (93!) on Our National Amnesia
Friday, June 23
Brewin' Views: Mad or Dead [inside]?
Office workers unite! Teamwork, you want?!?
On the Western Skyline
As I read in Michael Pollan's An Omnivore's Dilemma, one contributor to global warming is actually flatulance. No, not your(s) truly. You see, cattle have eaten grass for eons, yet in our wisdom we currently forcefeed corn (and hormones, antibiotics) into a singularly fantastical digestive system that cannot handle it. One outcome is that the average cow lasts less than eighteen months fattening for slaughter, no more (most are nursed there, unhealthy). The other is that they get tremendously bloated, and the 'outcome' of this is methane. Tons of it. Diligent scientists have been working for decades to solve the problem technologically, (all the while) ignoring that it is our addiction to corn (and beef) that is the problem.
Round and round and round we go (a wall to hem us in, It won't be long...)
262 times the pay of the average worker, is the CEO's pay. Jon Stewart recently pointed out that Congress' rejection of the recent raise of (the federal) minimum wage is overshadowed by the fact that IN NINE YEARS THEY HAVE RAISED THEIR OWN PAY NINE TIMES. And you know $5.15 ought to be enough to raise a family in our great country.
Happy Summer! Got Air?
On the Western Skyline
As I read in Michael Pollan's An Omnivore's Dilemma, one contributor to global warming is actually flatulance. No, not your(s) truly. You see, cattle have eaten grass for eons, yet in our wisdom we currently forcefeed corn (and hormones, antibiotics) into a singularly fantastical digestive system that cannot handle it. One outcome is that the average cow lasts less than eighteen months fattening for slaughter, no more (most are nursed there, unhealthy). The other is that they get tremendously bloated, and the 'outcome' of this is methane. Tons of it. Diligent scientists have been working for decades to solve the problem technologically, (all the while) ignoring that it is our addiction to corn (and beef) that is the problem.
Round and round and round we go (a wall to hem us in, It won't be long...)
262 times the pay of the average worker, is the CEO's pay. Jon Stewart recently pointed out that Congress' rejection of the recent raise of (the federal) minimum wage is overshadowed by the fact that IN NINE YEARS THEY HAVE RAISED THEIR OWN PAY NINE TIMES. And you know $5.15 ought to be enough to raise a family in our great country.
Happy Summer! Got Air?
Wednesday, June 21
Friday, June 16
Nuff to worry?
Edited out of An Inconvenient Truth?
This is an area where there is little 'known'--not a lot of research or even scientific thought. For obvious reasons (culturally speaking), it lies in the worst-case-scenario bin. Might make Hollywoods wolves in Manhattan a reality...
This is an area where there is little 'known'--not a lot of research or even scientific thought. For obvious reasons (culturally speaking), it lies in the worst-case-scenario bin. Might make Hollywoods wolves in Manhattan a reality...
Monday, June 12
Commencements, NYT
David McCullough,Historian, Bates College
However little television you watch, watch less. Read. Read for pleasure. Read for happiness.
To Iraq
The Constitution. 'Give them ours. It was written by a lot of smart guys, worked well for 200 years — and we're not using it any more.'
Love, America
--Jay Leno
To: Young Americans
Advice given by the former C.I.A. director Porter J. Goss the day after his dismissal last month.
The Toledo Blade reported that Mr. Goss told graduates at Tiffin University in Ohio: "If this were a graduating class of C.I.A. case officers, my advice would be short and to the point: Admit nothing, deny everything and make counteraccusations."
--From Your Conservative Leaders
However little television you watch, watch less. Read. Read for pleasure. Read for happiness.
To Iraq
The Constitution. 'Give them ours. It was written by a lot of smart guys, worked well for 200 years — and we're not using it any more.'
Love, America
--Jay Leno
To: Young Americans
Advice given by the former C.I.A. director Porter J. Goss the day after his dismissal last month.
The Toledo Blade reported that Mr. Goss told graduates at Tiffin University in Ohio: "If this were a graduating class of C.I.A. case officers, my advice would be short and to the point: Admit nothing, deny everything and make counteraccusations."
--From Your Conservative Leaders
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