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Stop coddling your dog—he’s 99.9% wolf
SANTA CLARITA, California—Cesar Millan crosses the road to meet me. Two pit bulls, a Chihuahua, and a Yorkshire terrier—named Junior, Taco, Alfie and Kaley Cuoko—follow. Off leash and at heel, the dogs are calm, almost languid. If Millan communicates with… Continue reading
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Texas Republicans Are Now the Craziest in America
If you want to see the clearest symptoms of the prion disease that has devoured the brain of the Republican party, the state Republican party is your Patient Zero. And, before a whole bunch of people in the Beltway media… Continue reading
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William Morris, Art and Labor
William Morris, the influential nineteenth century British designer, artist, writer, craftsman and political activist, generated ideas in regard to the connection between labor and the production o…Source: attentiveequations.comWould not art be more profound and meaningful if there was no economic value or… Continue reading
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Three Steps We Can Take to Solve Poverty, From Someone Who Knows Firsthand | Perspectives | BillMoyers.com
Tianna Gaines-Turner has been struggling to feed her family for years. She testified before Congress this week.Source: billmoyers.com Continue reading
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Rafal T. Prinke – Hunting the Blacke Toade
Source: www.levity.com“The opposites and their symbols are so common in the texts that it is superfluous to cite evidence from the sources. On the other hand, in view of the ambiguity of the alchemists’ language, which is “tam ethice quam… Continue reading
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The Big Other Interview # 23: Oliver Harris on William S. Burroughs’ Queer
If you meet Oliver Harris someday, tip your fedora. The co-mastermind along with Ian McFadyen behind 2009’s Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays and commemorative conference in Paris, Harris has com…Source: bigother.com Continue reading
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A ‘nationwide gentrification effect’ is segregating us by education
College graduates are sorting themselves into cities increasingly out of reach of everyone else.Source: www.washingtonpost.comI don’t know what I think about this. Not the phenomenon, but the article which teeters between “this is a social problem” and “It’s great to… Continue reading
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Mesopotamian Religion: Prelude to Axial Age
Between 800 and 200 BCE, a remarkable series of sages, mystics, and thinkers gave rise to the transcendental traditions that are known today as “world religions.” In 1949, the German philosopher Ka…Source: genealogyreligion.net Continue reading
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11 Classy Insults With Classical Greek and Latin Roots
Do you ever go on such an epic internet rant you just feel you’ve run out of words with which to hammer your enemies? Do you want to up your game without resorting to the tired tropes of excretion and… Continue reading
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If You Read This, You Might Never Drink a Latte Again – NYTimes.com
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