We're coming to the end of a hundred years or more of devices at were invented in order to save time. What has become of time? Nobody has enough time anymore. ... We are a time-impoverished society. We have lots of material things, but we have no time left. Human time has disappeared, and we're in animal time. Or vegetable time, if you like. Or mineral time. The time of computers. The time of things. Of mechanical devices. ... It's the New Poverty. - Jacob Needleman, professor of philosophy and comparative religions at San Francisco State University, 1999. As quoted in "The Farm as Natural Habitat," edited by Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson.
- Newsflash: Michelle Obama's hair insufficiently motherly.
- Latinos increasing targeted for hate crimes and beating deaths following on the wave of deliberately stoked anti-immigrant hatred. And we all know what "immigrant" means when Lou Dobbs says it, don't we? He does not refer to college-educated Canadians in country on a work visa.
- Rolling Stone says it's gay people's fault they don't have equal rights. Damn straight, as it were. Because everybody knows that it's the duty of anyone who's oppressed in their corner of the world to beg other people to stop treating them like sh*t.
- In honor of this rescued diary on the consensus regarding the failure of the War on Some Drugs, here are a couple video tutorials on busting crooked cops and concealing your stash.
- If we don't avert climate change, a head IPCC scientist says, the affected communities won't be able to adapt to shifting weather patterns. Going carbon neutral or better, carbon negative, in the industrialized world would save not only our economies, but probably millions of lives.
- There is already a global food crisis, and no joke.
- Canada may have its issues, but wanting a depression economy isn't one of them. They've got a plan on offer to keep the Canadian units of the Big Three afloat until something reasonable can be done next year.
As the Sisters of Mercy might say, "it's a small world and it smells funny I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money take back what I paid for another motherf*er in a motorcade." What's on your mind tonight?
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