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  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: See what we are doing, is we’re bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lives we are living. In order that they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do…

  • Weekend Wisdom: The One Who Flies Solo Has the Strongest Wings

    Originally posted on Life Out of the Box: Stand up for something, even if it means standing alone. Because often times, the one who flies solo has the strongest wings. 

  • The Death Of Paper

    Going digital.

  • Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results

    A lot of the abatements & other supports to bring in business to townships & cities centers on one main process: job creation. Yet nobody tracks any meaningful statistics to see if the economic argument holds up. Yes we can see in the short term that jobs are created. But…

  • The Philosophy Behind Amazon Web Services’ Cloud Strategy

    Amazon has a very interesting model. I am not saying that I recommend everyone use online shopping and let local retailers/wholesalers go by the wayside. But to understand what local shops are up against in the next 20 years, you need to think about more than just Wal-Mart & Sams.

  • Is Paul Ryan Making Americans More Favorably Inclined Toward Socialism? | The Nation

    …That reactionary Republicans get a little hysterical at the mention of the word “socialism” is not news. But the reaction to there reaction is. No two groups of Americans talk so much about socialism in so many public settings these days as Republican candidates and conservative commentators. And this appears…

  • The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies | The Nation

    In the wake of Obama’s victory, citizens in several states submitted petitions to secede from the United States. It is something of an irony that the very states seeking secession from “big government”—like Louisiana and Alabama—have been among the top beneficiaries of that selfsame government. Put bluntly, the government would…

  • Say No to Fracking | The Nation

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The early evidence from heavily fracked regions suggests that drilling and fracking operations represent a severe threat to the nation’s food security. See on www.thenation.com

  • Demographic Maps @ Patchwork Nation

    Super nice demographic maps on this site. Very well worth the time & effort to study them. As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than 4 million votes. That count should signify two things to…

  • Language Learning Service Verbling Launches Google Hangouts-Powered Classes, Adds Support For 9 New Tongues

    Always good to have access to cheap ways to learn languages.

  • Originally posted on Notes On Liberty: Recently the UN voted to make the Palestinian territories as a “non-member observer state,” rather than a “non-member observer entity.” The vote was 73% to 5% with 22% abstaining. As I’ve previously noted, I think the UN is a now-worthless organization, and CNN gives…

  • Following up on a Pandodaily reblog I did last week. Paul Carr is totally right: The founder of MailChimp did send a response that should be the template for other founders/CEOs who deal with real critiques of their business.

  • “STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”

    “STEM without flowers is just a bare stem…”

    …which sometimes can have some BIG thorns… We need more engineers and scientists. That has become the mantra of promoters of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in education. There is nothing wrong with such a rallying cry, except that investment in STEM education usually comes at the expense of…

  • NYC fast-food workers walk out – Salon.com

    …New York Communities for Change organizing director Jonathan Westin told Salon the current effort is “the biggest organizing campaign that’s happened in the fast food industry.” A team of 40 NYCC organizers have been meeting with workers for months, spearheading efforts to form a new union, the Fast Food Workers…

  • Obama’s drone guidelines: Bombing Kant’s test | The Economist

    AN EMINENT Prussian bachelor once argued that rational creatures are bound, by the very nature of reason, to act only according to rules of conduct one would affirm, when at one’s rational best, to equally guide everyone’s choices. This is not, it turns out, very useful as a day-to-day rule…

  • The Rise of Democratic Schools and ‘Solutionaries’…

    Twenty years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, a 12-year-old girl from Canada, “silenced the world for six minutes” with her raw and powerful oration lambasting adults for dumping the problems they created onto the next generation. “At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us…

  • Class Wars of 2012 – NYTimes.com

    …The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of fiscal responsibility — the ground they failed to gain in…

  • Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube

    via Lonnie Holley – “All Rendered Truth” – YouTube.