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Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Stop Stealing Dreams
http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf
I have not yet finished it, but I have already decided that the content must be promulgated. The author, Seth Godin, seems like a pretty smart guy so I might read some of this other …
Man-made noise disrupts the growth of plants and trees
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17457323
When I read the title I thought that somehow the plant and trees were being individually affected by the noise, but it seems it is ‘just’ the behavior of pollinators …
Vernor Vinge Is Optimistic About the Collapse of Civilization
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/vernor-vinge-geeks-guide-galaxy/
I like Mr. Vinge a lot as an author (I would love to hang out with him and find out if he is as cool in person). I loved his …
Not something that I think has any potential with the current GOP morons…
Rice, Klein: Education keeps America safe
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/opinion/rice-klein-education/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
I agree with much of what the article has to say (I know Rice, but don’t know Klein, but I …
RS policies help fuel tax refund fraud, officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/us/tax-refund-scam/index.html
A sad article indeed. The sums involved are HUGE and all of it a direct withdrawal from our (taxpayer) pockets. This is on par with medicare/medicaid fraud: billions of dollars. …
Senate mulls an express lane for IPOs
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/20/smallbusiness/ipo-bill/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
As if it wasn’t already easy enough for the oligarchy to rip off ordinary people, now we have legislation that will turn the clock all the way back to before the ’29 …
Another of those difficult-to-believe-we-are-that-collectively-stupid things…
Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-hidden-bailout-helping-wall-street-collect-your-rent-20120319
This sums it up:
…As one hedge fund analyst put it to me this morning: “Help inflate the bubble, create a foreclosure crisis, buy homes
Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/forget-the-money-follow-the-sacredness/
An interesting bit of a theme working out here, purely by accident…
OK, read the following and pick if you are Type A or Type 1…
Type A:
…“Once upon a time, the
Mockery: Women’s new weapon
From a sex strike to satirical anti-Viagra bills, the war on reproductive rights has some responding with laughs
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/18/mockery_womens_new_weapon/singleton/
I feel strongly about this whole GOP assault on women, but haven’t really articulated my thoughts here. …
These articles have a common tie (at least to me) so rather than post on each one I thought I would post them together. The first shows that our government culture has the potential to yank its head out of …