November 2008
“TOM JOAD
Woody Guthrie
Tom Joad got out of the old McAlester Pen
There he...”
– dowloaded from the Folksong Data Base
Listen to the Democracy Now! special on Studs...
“Now is the Time
Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.
...”
– Hafiz (via cathartesaura)
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Depression 2009: What would it look like? →
Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money on healthcare, child care, and education, and we’d see uncomfortable changes in those parts of our lives. The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and...
Life in Somalia's pirate town →
Under-ice flood speeds up glacier →
The observation is described as critical because of how it informs our understanding of future sea levels.
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their...”
– William Burroughs (via takaakik) (via browneyes) (via kiku)
Iraq War Ends! →
Chicken tractor design →
These are basically portable pens without a bottom that you can move around to different spots in your yard so your chickens can eat all the scary bugs crawling in the grass and dirt. This seems like a good solution. The top hit on Google is a gallery of 140 chicken tractor photographs, compiled by Katy of The City Chicken. It’s neat to see all of these hand-made tractors. No two are identical....
Lobbyists Swarm the Treasury for Piece of Bailout... →
Of the initial $350 billion that Congress freed up, out of the $700 billion in bailout money contained in the law that passed last month, the Treasury Department has committed all but $60 billion. The shrinking pie — and the growing uncertainty over who qualifies — has thrown Washington’s legal and lobbying establishment into a mad scramble.
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“Species do not evolve toward perfection, but quite the contrary. The weak, in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)
Chapter Two: Things that exist despite the odds
magicmolly:
Caterpillars! So fragile, so conspicuous, so appetizing to predators. Yet, there they are.
Earthworms do not have the strength of sinews and bones, or the sharpness of claws and fangs, yet they eat of the mountains above and drink underground springs below, because they are single-minded. - Wenzi (Although generations of Chinese scholars have dismissed the Wenzi as a plagiarism or...
“Now that the results of the election are in, we know that the Nixon gambit...”
– Jeet Heer (via azspot)
Dying Soldier - Clifton Hicks
Pot Wins in a Landslide: A Thundering Rejection of... →
Michigan voters made their state the 13th to allow the medical use of marijuana by a whopping 63 percent to 37 percent, the largest margin ever for a medical marijuana initiative. And by 65 percent to 35 percent, Massachusetts voters decriminalized the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, replacing arrests, legal fees, court appearances, the possibility of jail and a lifelong criminal record...
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones (Recorded in...
“Everybody would like to be popular. We can all remember that back in high...”
– Press secretary Dana Perino speaking of President Bush’s view of his legacy.
Hard Times - The Stanley Brothers
Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose by Dennis... →
Infused in each word he wrote and in his spoken word, he was a master story-teller and could regale groups for literally hours with his deep understanding of human nature its possibilities and its foibles. He was a person of great appetites and his greatest appetite was for the truth. America has lost a tribune of the people. But the power of his prose lives on.