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I put my picture on wearethe99percent.tumblr.com … because I feel like a refugee from a pocket third-world country in the US, created by the 1% and the government's insane/corrupt need to please them.  And I'm very aware, every day, what a lucky one of the 99% I am.  The luck is nice, but it's incredibly tough to be lucky when everyone you left at ( Read more... )

Farming Detroit


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"Hell hath no limits, nor is it circumscrib'd
by any selfe place; but where we are is Hell.
And where hell is there we must ever be.
And to be short, when the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purify'd,
All places shall be Hell that are not Heaven."

-Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

Originally published at *Transcendental * ( Read more... )

It's 5-21-2011!  I've been waiting years to celebrate this day!  *Wooo party!*

What do we celebrate on this day?  Well, I think it's unequivocally about the power of fiction.

Today we marvel at humanity's ability to write powerful words that motivate each other across unthinkable miles and centuries of distance; and also at humanity's ability to ( Read more... )

Awesome author and thinker Cat Valente takes care of writing The Osama Is Dead Post for me.


The long-and-short-of-it:

Well, I don't know. Seems like one more corpse on the pile to me. Sorry, but this war, this decade of war has made me cynical. It's made me not believe in just government on any level, and made me wary and gunshy of my fellow ( Read more... )

Don't miss the awesomely informative graphic at http://xkcd.com/radiation/. Fun takeaways include:

• Living within 50 miles of a coal-power plant for a year doses you with almost three times as much radiation as living within 50 miles of a nuclear-power plant for a year;
• A single mammogram gives 24 times the average total dose someone living within 10 ( Read more... )