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Money, it's a gas...
Having lived in other places, I know that there are poor folk heroes who are held in high cultural esteem. You can be poor, and yet have people look up to you. That concept seems so alien to americans. Here, the presumption seems to be that if you are poor, there's something 'wrong' with you ( Read more... ) -
I would so love to be able to feel animal thoughts...
Here's an account of Washoe, a chimpanzee who learned sign language ( Read more... ) -
I never ever imagined the future as being like this...
The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government ( Read more... ) -
What could have been...
Just think, if the British govt had listened to TE Lawrence at the end of WW1, and created an independent Arab state with Damascus as its capital, all of the violence of the modern era might have been avoided ( Read more... ) -
Justifying your existence...
At work they have these meetings where staff have to justify their continued employment. You basically sit there and say exactly what it is you’re doing, how you’re contributing and why you feel your place in the company is justified ( Read more... ) -
The spying
I asked an 87 year old guy what he thought of the domestic spying, and he said he can't believe people are putting up with it. I then asked why more older people don't speak up against it, and he suggested that it's up to younger people to do that ( Read more... )
