I literally fell asleep in the hot tub yesterday afternoon, until my phone buzzed & dinged because T sent some text messages. I don't think I've ever fallen asleep in the hot tub before? That sounds dangerous, although maybe it isn't, maybe people wake up immediately upon drowning? Yeah, I barely slept Friday night because of the anticipation of ( Read more... )

We may have extinguished racial segregation in our public schools in the US, but we've replaced it with economic segregation. There are public schools in the US that have racial diversity, but 100% of the students come from families that have income levels so low that they qualify for free school lunches ( Read more... )

"communism is not some ideal, that might exist at some point in the future; it’s the way most of us act with people we really care about all the time"

--David Graeber

I did post about this question before in my LJ, but I've had more time to ponder it on my own without trying to read through endless treatments of the two systems for comparison.  Just based on my own prior knowledge, how would I define these terms?

My definition of socialism:  Socialism is not a binary, either/or, but a relative concept.  The ( Read more... )

The only way I can enforce equal food consumption between the cats is by force. Otherwise Astrid will eat her food faster than Sam, and then bully Sam to take the rest of her food ( Read more... )

I should ask more people who lived through it, directly, I mean, but when I study this question, via podcasts and books and blogs ( Read more... )