February 2012
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January 2012
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Musings on Specialization and Self-Sufficiency in... →
“‘A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is...
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“Our resistance to the planet’s destruction—this resistance is often called...”
– Derrick Jensen
(And we never take “them” out of “our activism.”)
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“Rhode Island natives, including those born overseas, are under ordinary...”
– Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award
(This is 100% true and explains my life. I had a lot to work through.)
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“So the myth in our society is that people are competitive by nature and that...”
– Dr. Gabor Maté
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Freeing Education to Create a Sustainable... →
Remember that quote about education I posted a few months ago? Here’s the full article.
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“I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an...”
– Norman Mailer
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December 2011
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“The Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life and considers each...”
– Salvation Army - who are you giving to?
It’s not all bad. I’m just saying. The more we know.
If you’ve got stuff to donate, especially clothes and the like, I recommend finding a local place, like a shelter, some place that helps folks directly, without judgment. Not always easy...
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“[Mariska] Hargitay dislikes comparisons with her famous mother [Jayne Mansfield]...”
– Wikipedia
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“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that—I don’t mind...”
– Hugh Mackay
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“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized...”
– Arthur Evans
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“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We...”
– Derrick Jensen
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How Agriculture Ruined Your Health (and What to Do... →
“Right around 10,000 years ago, when former hunter-gatherers began growing grain seeds in neat, organized rows, something happened. Population exploded, because we now had a steady source of calories. Villages and cities sprang up, because we no longer had to follow our food. We could simply grow it where we lived. Those sound like pretty good things, at first. More food and shelter sounds...
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“Nation, this orgy of Christmas shopping proves once again, that America is back....”
– Stephen Colbert
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WatchDude. Kristy Swanson and Corey Feldman on “Psych.”
November 2011
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No More Free Infant Formula At RI Hospitals : NPR →
“To encourage breastfeeding, the state’s seven birthing hospitals stopped formula giveaways this fall, apparently making it the first state to end the widespread practice.” … “Thirty-eight percent of Rhode Island mothers nurse their babies six months after birth, compared with 44 percent nationally…” … “‘Hospitals should market health and...
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“It’s Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning! Depressing and happy, all at once, like...”
– 1491s
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“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn’t have any...”
– John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota (1903-1976)
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“To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated...”
– Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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“People often ask me what sort of a culture I would like to see replace...”
– Derrick Jensen in Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance, p. 887 (via cultureofresistance)
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October 2011
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“[T]he system of education our children are being indoctrinated into today is...”
– Anna Jahns, “Creating Learning Communities”, Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, issue 31, fall 2011 - discussing Wendy Priesnitz’s book Challenging Assumptions in Education (the full article will be available online once the next issue is out)
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“We saw it all through the 20th Century. And now on the 21st Century, it’s time...”
– Waking Life (via untitledfragment)
September 2011
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Why are you following me?
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Oral History of UCB Theater! →
memories…
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“Who is more pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policeman or one living in...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Blackbeard
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“I was obviously born to draw better than most people…. Other people are...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Blackbeard
August 2011
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“We’ve got a blind date with destiny! And it looks like she’s ordered...”
– The Shoveler (William H. Macy), Mystery Men
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“Where does the idea of God come from?… Early man is, like everything else,...”
– Douglas Adams, “Is There An Artificial God?”
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“[W]e get information poured at us from all over the place and it’s completely...”
– Douglas Adams, Is There An Artificial God?
July 2011
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The Green Thing
(Got this in an email, not sure of its source. Anyone know?)
In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today....
June 2011
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Sherman Alexie, the official site →
Sherman Alexie’s newly redesigned web site. New mailing list is awesome, too.
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The Breast Milk Cure →
“It’s not clear why a human instinct to nurse went awry. Does it have something to do with the sexualization of breasts? Or with infant formula manufacturers, who irresponsibly peddled their products in the past but are more restrained now?”
Or: African mamas’ cultural wisdom, learned by millennia of evolution, was stripped away by colonization; now they must look toward...
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“I am an artist. It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for...”
– Vincent van Gogh