Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.
First and foremost: an uncritical read of this book will leave you feeling cynical and a bit cheated. It ranks up there with E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene 1. It would be very easy to find yourself getting defensive about the material presented in here; especially if you believe humans to be some special […]
Even if Obama isn’t the choice for you, please get out there and exercise your franchise tomorrow: March 4th, 2008!
Today (July 11th) is Fair Use Day! w00t! What is Fair Use Day? In a nutshell, it’s a day where we as citizens of the world, as media consumers, as storytellers, as singers, as guitar-jamming musicians, as painters and collage artists, as new world mythologists, as human beings get to speak up (and out) about […]
The above image will not be appearing in this NowPublic.com story. When I first saw the request, I was a bit flattered. Neat, I thought. Then I read the story and thought Hmm… seems to miss the point. In the spirit of the Creative Commons license that I use for my Flickr’d photos however 1 […]
A fruitful quote from our guest at this evening’s dinner: The only revolution left is to change your own life.
Still recovering. I hate having to spend a Friday night “in” but still being a little on the sick side and having A. out of town on family business anyway… Well, it just makes more sense. Better to get healthy. Especially with Mardi Gras tomorrow. That should be a lot of fun. Our company has […]
Via Jalopnik: “Hybrids drive their way out of car-pool lanes“: Giving free solo trips in the commuter lanes has successfully clogged up those commuter lanes that were intended to ease traffic. Also, the way stickers are allocated was flawed – it was based on when new hybrid owners received their license plates in the mail. […]
This gallery has been popping up ALL OVER THE PLACE in my RSS aggregator today. Americans and their guns… Fascinating photojournalistic project. In nothing else, the MeFi thread gets pretty interesting. The photos speak for themselves, however. Also: let’s face it, Brittny is cute.
Via the Wrangle: Vegetarian is the New Prius on The Huffington Post. *ahem* Let’s quote: They noted that feeding animals for meat, dairy, and egg production requires growing some ten times as much crops as we’d need if we just ate pasta primavera, faux chicken nuggets, and other plant foods. On top of that, we […]
via a A. (via J.G.-C. via MSNBC.com): Woman kicked off plane for breast-feeding baby (in Vermont!?!?): Gillette said she was discreetly breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter […] She said she was seated by the window in the next-to-last row, her husband was seated between her and the aisle and no part of her breast was showing. […]