September 2011
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“Let us say that novelists are like unannounced visitors. While Norman Mailer and...”
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“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation...”
– David Graeber at the Guardian, on #OccupyWallStreet (via onekarma)
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“If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have...”
– Amy Goodman: Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense (via pantslessprogressive)
“Countries that invoke self-defence to legitimize targeted killings should not...”
– Toronto Star (via azspot)
“Life cannot find reason to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual...”
– Frank Herbert
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“No country has been allowed to apply for membership or association with the...”
– Christopher Hitchens, “Staking a Life.” From our Crimes & Punishments issue. (via laphamsquarterly)
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“All I’m saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via thefreenomad)
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Fuck Yeah Drug Policy: “Burning Man, founded in... →
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“Burning Man, founded in 1986 by San Francisco techies, has always been an attempt to make a large number of people use different parts of their brains toward some nonspecific but ostensibly enlightening and communally beneficial end. The event was quickly moved to the desert of Nevada as it…
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“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love...”
– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (via baroquenoise)
“The Cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also...”
– E.F.Schumacher - Small is Beautiful (1973)
WatchA really neat video that shows the impact of Kiva over the years. A couple of Kiva’s engineers mapped the flows of money between Kiva lenders and borrowers for the past 5+ years, and made a really slick video. Check it out!
Yeah people!!
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Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP... →
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Worth your time.
Indeed, an excellent long read. A veteran GOP staffer lets loose. And right off, the somnambulant trend towards positing an equivalency of dysfunction gets negated:
But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite...
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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via illuminatedbeing)
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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we...”
– John Lennon (via theconqueringlion)
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“A series of unintentional though negligent acts by multiple parties — WikiLeaks,...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga (via ryking)
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