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  • The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

    Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have… Continue reading

  • Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

    Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y… Continue reading

    Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

  • Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

    It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen… Continue reading

  • No Local – Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change The World, Greg Sharzer – Zero Books Blog

    Thanks to my good brother Joseph Carr for passing this book review along. …This is not a book about the successes and challenges of a particular community garden or biodiesel scheme. That research is important, but it’s already been done:… Continue reading

  • The Excellence of Fortitude in the Face of Viciousness

    ‎”I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,… Continue reading

  • ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

    Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading

    ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson

  • Improving Leadership Through Connected Learning |

    Creating your own personal learning network (PLN) is what authentic education is all about: being open to your possibility by engaging your situation with what others are doing in the world. This goes hand in hand with the the 7… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130103

    Always the whispers of sages slip into oblivion. Loving struggle, ever adventuring to say the as yet unsaid, finds refreshment by raising up the forgotten. Continue reading

    Textimony 20130103

  • Textimony 20121223

    In this loving struggle, death though certain has no sting; chance, no power; guilt, no blame; pain, no duration. Let-go violent force & obtain fortitude. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121222

    Loving struggle lets-go the long labor of being recognized by others for what you can do & embraces the Great Work of being-open to another as who you can be. Continue reading

  • Deep Springs College: the school for cowboys gets ready for cowgirls | World news | The Guardian

    I know a really wonderful young man who just finished up his first few months at Deep Springs. I hope that we will soon get to talk about his experiences. The same year that Lenin’s Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace,… Continue reading

  • On 3 moments of freedom « Andrew Taggart

    Let’s examine a few different conceptions of freedom in hopes of arriving, in the end, at where we began. In his famous essay, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” the contemporary philosopher Harry Frankfurt states, “According to… Continue reading