January 2012
17 posts
Reasons and ways to challenge the corporatocracy →
Via Yes Magazine:
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- Powerful corporations socialize their risks and costs, but privatize profits. That means we pick up the tab for environmental clean ups, for bailouts when risky speculation goes wrong. Meanwhile, profits go straight into the pockets of top executives and others in the 1 percent.
We are on the brink of runaway climate change; we only have a few years to make the...
On Jan 22, 2012 5:09 PM, “Stephanie Cutter, BarackObama.com” info@barackobama.com wrote:
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Dana —
Here’s some big news that’s going to affect millions of women.
On Friday, the Obama administration announced that soon women won’t have to pay out of pocket for birth control: Starting August 1st, many insurance plans nationwide will be...
SOPA Strike
matthewjmason:
Want to join the protest against the internet censorship bills, SOPA and PIPA, tomorrow? Checkout http://www.sopastrike.com/ for a quick script you can easily put in your tumblr theme that will “black out” your tumblr for the day.
by Simone Eastman on The Hairpin: Mix and Match...
http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/do-this-no-7-mix-and-match-new-years-resolutions
In the spirit of a Fresh New Start, I have some suggestions for shaking things up. I consider these to be less New Year’s resolutions and more New Year’s experiments – things to try just once to see how they work for you, to see what shifts as a result. It doesn’t matter if you do one of these once...
December 2011
11 posts
“like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the...”
– -The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to...”
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- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of...”
– - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“H&M defended their technique by explaining that they designed a body that...”
– H&M Admits to Using Computer-Generated Bodies for Models
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thingsiatethatilove:
me: UGH! If I have to read one more thing about (“literary culture,” a “cute” thing Adam Gopnik’s kid did or said, a very rich person’s feelings, a “trend,” how yoga didn’t make someone thin enough, etc etc etc etc) … Keith: Well, you should start doing a better job of locking the windows and doors. me: Of … what? Keith: So the man can’t get in. me: The man? Keith: The...
November 2011
19 posts
Now standing next to some cops talking about how overpriced movie tickets are.
The only way to comply with the law is to have...
Maybe it’s just because I’m currently reading Catch-22, but I would also call the below Joseph Heller-esque.
Aside from the question of whether credentialing by law enforcement is appropriate in the first place (inasmuch as it can potentially conflict with first amendment protections), the NYPD’s processes for acquiring credentials are, to put it nicely, Kafkaesque. To put it...
“In art one idea is as good as another.”
– Willem de Kooning 1949
“It’s not ‘who you share with,’ it’s ‘who you share...”
– http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4chans_chris_poole_facebook_google_are_doing_it_wr.php
October 2011
23 posts
