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  • Hunger Games, U.S.A. | Paul Krugman

    Hunger Games, U.S.A. | Paul Krugman

    …So House Republicans voted to maintain farm subsidies — at a higher level than either the Senate or the White House proposed — while completely eliminating food stamps from the bill. To fully appreciate what just went down, listen to the rhetoric conservatives often use to justify eliminating safety-net programs.…

  • The Allegory of the Cave

    The Allegory of the Cave

    The Allegory of the Cave, also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, Metaphor of the Cave, The Cave Analogy, or the Parable of the Cave, is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of…

  • Why Hollywood Should Keep Destroying Cities – Sam Adams

    Why Hollywood Should Keep Destroying Cities – Sam Adams

    In an essay posted Friday at The Dissolve, Tasha Robinson used Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim to counter the objections several critics have raised about the wanton destruction of this summer’s blockbusters: city blocks flattened, heads crushed, all without a drop of blood. As Matt Singer pointed out on this site, the…

  • Light Seeking Light

    Light Seeking Light

     

  • The Return of Larry Summers?

    The Return of Larry Summers?

    Summers was a key actor in the Clinton economic team that pushed for bigger and less regulated banks. He was there for the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He was also among those hectoring Brooksley Born, when the then head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that it would be a…

  • Banksy vs. King Robbo (Street Art vs. Graffiti)

  • Rolling Space Clouds

    Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hoag’s Object (wired.com) Moon Lava (willscienceforfood.com) Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass (fox6now.com) Hubble picks up giant space penguin… (guardian.co.uk)  

  • When And Why By Rabindranath Tagore

    When And Why By Rabindranath Tagore

  • Open Access and Its Enemies, Redux

    Originally posted on jbrittholbrook: I don’t have time to be doing this, but it’s important. Making time is a state of mind — as, claims Cameron Neylon, is ‘Open’: Being open as opposed to making open resources (or making resources open) is about embracing a particular form of humility. For…

  • Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

    Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

      Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases the incidence of obesity and of major chronic diseases and…

  • [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

    [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

      …Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009 : $115,000,000,000 Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period : $28,000,000,000 Average amount a Water Valley, Mississippi, hospital bills Medicare for treating pneumonia with no complications : $4,552 Average amount a Philadelphia hospital does : $79,007 Portion of North American doctors who…

  • Beautiful End of a Star’s Life

    http://www.thephoblographer.com/2013/07/13/this-photo-shows-the-beautiful-end-of-a-stars-life/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.

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  • THE NEW SODOM

    THE NEW SODOM

    I am utterly disgusted by this. Last year, at the Colorado state high-school wrestling tournament, three upperclassmen from Norwood cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil. Two of the attackers were sons of Robert Harris, the wrestling…

  • The Flying Monkey Caucus

    The Flying Monkey Caucus

    Charles P. Pierce certainly is fired up over at Esquire. Rightfully so: The Republican Farm Bill drops food stamps for the poorest while keeping plenty of subsidies for big agribusiness. Earlier this week, [Speaker John] Boehner pretended he was leading the House when Steve King and the flying-monkey caucus pretty…

  • apple cider vinegar

    Originally posted on Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home: Home Remedies | Indian Natural Cure | Effective Treatment at Home View original post

  • Twitter vs Facebook vs Blog

    Originally posted on Three Wise Guys: Twitter Vs Facebook Vs Blogs     Its an age old question, assuming your age is less than 10 years.   There are casual users for each who use them to stay in touch with people and find items and people of similar interests.…

  • POISON (OIL ON CANVAS) 72X48 inches

    Originally posted on yavishtha: CLAIRVOYANCE is a super normal mode of perception which results in a visual image being presented to conscious mind. the perception may be of object or scenes or forms distant in space or in time , past or future or on another plane of existence and i think there is…