February 2012
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“Augustine Birrell argued in 1899: “The essence of Property is an unwillingness...”
– Jeannie Vanasco in Believer Magazine. ABSENT THINGS AS IF THEY ARE PRESENT
A HISTORY OF LITERATURE CREATED BY ERASURE, COLLAGE, OMISSION, AND WITE-OUT
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“Providing shareholders with blanket protection from the actions taken on their...”
– Vinay Gupta at Worldchanging. Thoughts on Limited Liability
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“Harris is memorably direct. About the idea that Robinson is the first gay...”
– Bishop Barbara Harris at Religion Dispatches Daily. First Gay Bishop? Give Me a Break
Love Free or Die aims to open hearts
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“Sagging forbids forgetting. Those towns that have passed laws criminalizing...”
– keguro at Gukira. Sagging Time
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“In reality, everything that’s happened in the past several years has gone to...”
– Gerald Caplan at The Globe and Mail. Don’t tell us it’s not a class war
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“No, the biggest differences to consider when evaluating various candidates...”
– David Atkins at Hullabaloo.Why Republican Contenders’ Views on Social Issues Matter More than their Views on Economic Issues
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“Vattimo and Zabala produce a devastating critique of our “framed...”
– Pepe Escobar at Asia Times. Occupy World Street
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“Hermeneutics, then, is one of the few philosophies that reflects the pluralism...”
– Santiago Zambala in Al Jezeera. A philosophy for the protesters
Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where he currently teaches courses on contemporary philosophy.
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“For a Liberal Democrat party looking to burnish its environmental credentials...”
– Joss Garman quoted in The Guardian. EU tar sands vote looms
The decision whether Europe will officially label oil produced from tar sands as highly polluting will be made on Thursday
(European Union states fail to agree on whether to recognize oil sands as high polluters. Nature)
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“According to a study by the Washington Business Group on Health and the employee...”
– Joshua Holland at AlterNet. Do Conservatives Understand How the Female Body Works? The Myth Fueling the Right-Wing Freak-Out Over Birth Control
The Republicans’ chosen narrative about Obama’s contraceptive coverage betrays a total lack of understanding of the most basic realities of...
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“[I]t’s hard not to feel that America really needs a long, hard look into...”
– Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. The Last Debate
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“He believes he’s the smartest guy in the room and he should tell people...”
– John Baer at Philly.com. John Baer: Santorum? Really? He’s atop the GOP heap. Are they nuts?
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“So long as the battle for racial justice continues to be fought on the...”
– Thomas J. Sugure in The Nation. Hearts and Minds
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“A claim to absolute truth—any absolute truth—stops the process of democracy.”
– Ira Chernus at Religion Dispatches Daily. “Religious Freedom” and the Conservative Quest for Absolute Truth
The religious right is using the contraception controversy to shore up the walls of an ideological fortress.
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“Now if ever a synoptic vision of humanity’s plight is vital, if we are to save...”
– Keith Hart The Memory Bank. The collapse of national capitalism: a Sophoclean tragedy
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“The perpetual growth myth … promotes the impossible idea that...”
– Twenty Blue Planet Prize Winners quoted in an article at Common Dreams. ‘Perpetual Growth Myth’ Leading World to Meltdown: Experts
UN-Sponsored Papers Predict Sustained Ecological and Social Meltdown
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“The decentralized provision of basic necessities is not likely to flow from a...”
– Richard Heinberg at Countercurrents. The Fight Of The Century
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“The German strategy seems to be to make life so unbearable that the Greeks...”
– Wolfgang Münchau at The Financial Times (Registration). Greece must default if it wants democracy
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“Iceland’s approach to dealing with the meltdown has put the needs of its...”
– Omar R. Valdimarsson at Bloomberg. Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness in Best Recovery Story
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“We want to be connected. That is the meaning of love, to be at one. When you...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh in The Guardian series Jo Confino meets. Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change
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“By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at the...”
– Guttmacher Institute. States Enact Record Number of Abortion Restrictions in 2011
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“Makers and Military Merge? Are we going to see the rise of the DIY Military...”
– Fiacre O’Duinn at Library Bazaar. Make, DARPA and the line in the sand, #2 ( part 1 here)
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“What is interesting is that despite its partially fixed matrix no two results...”
– Stanford Kwinter excerpt at Archimorph. THE COMPLEX AND THE SINGULAR
Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture Amazon
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“The argument about abortion is all about women’s right to make their own...”
– Digby at Hullabaloo. It’s the coercion, stupid
ht to all the others I follow here who said: “What Digby said!”
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“Williams made what in the 17th century was a revolutionary claim: “I infer that...”
– John M. Barry at The Smithsonian. God, Government and Roger Williams’ Big Idea
Banished from Massachusetts, the Puritan minister originated a principle that remains contentious to this day—separation of church and state
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“Those who “choose to be gay” offer the disturbing possibility that attachments...”
– Keguro Macharia at Gukira. “We Have Chosen To Be Gay”
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“They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand;...”
– James Baldwin. MY DUNGEON SHOOK
LETTER TO MY NEPHEW ON THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EMANICIPATION
The Fire Next Time
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“Doctors simply should refuse to conduct this procedure as a violation of their...”
– Charles Pierce at Esquire. Going Probe
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“And it’s this split, between cooperative and competitive relationships...”
– Vinay Gupta at Edge Ryders. The Council of Europe exists to prevent the next European war
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“Here’s a compositional secret. It’s so obvious and simple,...”
– Teller quoted by Brian Brushwood at Brian Brushwood: Bizarre Magic. 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
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“In brief, American decline can perhaps be stemmed if we abandon hope for decent...”
– Noam Chomsky at Guernica. Noam Chomsky: Hegemony and its Dilemmas
“Put more simply, an empire is a wealth pump, a device to enrich one nation at...”
– John Michael Greer in The Archdruid Report. The Nature of Empire
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“Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction...”
– Geoff Dyer ASH Smyth interviews Geoff Dyer in Guernica.
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“Markets tend to have thin commitments to localities, cultures and ways of life;...”
– David Bollier at On the Commons via Ukiah Blog. The Commons — Short, simple, and sweet…
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“The question for me isn’t “Are gay rights movements the same as the...”
– Toshi Reagon at Huffington Post. Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More
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“A people untouched (or seemingly untouched) by war are far less likely to care...”
– Andrew Bacevich in London Review of Books Blog. The New American Way of War
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“You’ve got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then ensure...”
– Jeremy Lin quoted by Eric Jackson at Forbes. Just Lin, Baby! 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning
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The Living Nightmare Quanitta Underwood: A... →
It’s a New York Times article, if you count your clicks to stay clear of their paywall. Underwood discusses her childhood sexual abuse. I found it a sensitively done article. I have only admiration for Quanitta Underwood for taking such trauma public. Really my eyes are a bit tearful just thinking of the story. The reporter also interviewed her father who abused Quanitta and her sister.
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Crowdtilt →
An opensource alternative to Kickstarter.
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“From the 1990s onwards, a number of senior American economists repeatedly...”
– William Davies in OurKingdom. Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession
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“If you loved SOPA, you’ll love Facebook’s vision of limiting speech...”
– Groklaw ~pj.
In Defense of Anonymous Speech
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Is "Africa" Really African? →
Hat tip Zunguzungu :-) I love this post. I don’t find the song “Africa” cheesey. I love this version by Kearsney College Choir.
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Zunguzungu Sunday Reading →
I don’t give a hat tip often enough for links I find through this very excellent link post. It’s incredible that he puts it all together week after week.
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“Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when...”
– Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis quoted by Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone. The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read
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“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but...”
– Vine Deloria, Jr. Interview with Vine Deloria, Jr. By Paul DeMain, Edited by: Serle L. Chapman at Gathering of Nations.
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“The energy crisis cannot be overwhelmed by more energy inputs. It can only be...”
– Ivan Illich excerpts from Ivan Illich Energy and Equity Ten Essays at Atheaum Reading Room.