"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." ~ Maya Angelou"What are you doing, can I help?" I murmured, softly pulled from sleep by the man who was quietly getting ready to leave for work. It was the day before my birthday. He had been very careful, but the sound of a suitcase zipper had been enough to wake me. He chuckled and sat down on ( Read more... )

The Book Warehouse that David manages in Yaletown (1068 Homer) is being threatened with closure unless sales, devastated by hockey season, pick up. If you're in the market for a book and you have the luxury of choosing where it comes from, please take a minute and call on his store first.

Via JWZ, :

6 Ways We're Already Geoengineering Earth
Scientists and policymakers are meeting this week to discuss whether geoengineering to fight climate change can be safe in the future, but make no mistake about it: We're already geoengineering Earth on a massive scale. From diverting a third of Earth's available fresh water to planting and ( Read more... )

Enter Thursday, December 10th, the day I officially come down with death flu, when Tony leaves his backpack on the bus and loses his laptop, which contains all of his writing, pictures and video of the last four months, our Montreal trip, etcetera, and his camera. We are, understandably, not feeling terrific ( Read more... )

Following up on Jake's post regarding the BART Police that murdered a man on NYE, I woke up this morning to Warren reporting that Oakland erupted into a riot last night:
"Overnight, west Oakland finally went up, probably triggered by 1) all the mealymouthing around the shooting from the authorities 2) while everyone else was watching the fucking ( Read more... )

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