1. Kenyon Farrow: Read his letter to Condoleeza Rice in "Letters from young activists." by Dan Berger. It is awesome, well written, insightful. I may or may not transcribe it here later ( Read more... )

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080528/LOCAL18/805280444

Seriously? Marine patrols in my neighborhood? Thank you military for getting us used to the boot.

I keep a jar of peanut butter, easy mac, crackers and soup in my cube pretty consistently. That way if I forget my lunch I don't have to go buy one. Occasionally in the afternoons I get hungry though and I eat peanut butter out of the jar by the spoonful. I furtively hide behind the open door of my cabinet and shovel that shit in like a fat kid ( Read more... )

The religious right rhetoric of the work space ( Read more... )

1. I've been reading a lot of depressing articles about the US economy, the erratic behavior of our markets, the securitization of debt (making a liability an "asset") and foreign investment. About how the US overwhelmingly consumes more than it produces and people aren't going to change. It makes me a little nervous. I bought my house, and now ( Read more... )

NPR had a commentator on Market Place talking about how the government would be insane to cut interest rates to bail out the sub prime mortgage market. The guy, a sound economist, said that there has to be a sanctioning action in the market so that if people say create a shadow market based on vapor and ghost of high risk mortgages and it takes a ( Read more... )

The most recent US "offer" to Iran was the equivalent of me saying "Give me all of your fucking money and jewels, and then we'll talk about how much I'll give back with my posse on stand by."

I hope whatever is going to happen, happens soon. The waiting is killing me.

1. My hair keeps forming little dreads... this is not my goal. it is just getting knotty ( Read more... )

Seriously ( Read more... )

So, I have an uncle who was spent nearly the past three years traveling the globe. He married a woman in Turkey (her name is Delict, she is pretty awesome and taught us all a Turkish tile game called OK at xmess). He has definately over the past few years made some short term large dollar loans to family members at a low rate, and is generally ( Read more... )