May 2011
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Factory Farms Produce 100 Times More Waste Than... →
mohandasgandhi:
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently delivered a major victory to factory farms. Under a 2008 EPA rule, any confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) “designed, constructed, operated, and maintained in a manner such that the CAFO will discharge” animal waste must apply for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit under the Clean Water Act. The...
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“There are lots of useful things we can do to rearrange daily life in the USA...”
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)
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Government Official Who Makes Perfectly Valid,... →
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“An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A...”
– George Orwell (via azspot)
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“Private prisons don’t save money, but they create an obvious and...”
– Adam Serwer (via narwhalzz)
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“Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via azspot)
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“Mark Klein, the former A.T. & T. employee who exposed the telecom-company...”
– Jane Mayer, Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker
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“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified....”
– bell hooks. (via jenniferanne)
Relevant to my interests, as I’m working on a catalogue essay for the Or Gallery on this topic. This was from All About Love, I assume.
bell hooks auto-reblog.
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“When the show went to No. 1 in December 1988, ABC sent a chocolate “1” to...”
– Roseanne Barr. At some point, we are all Roseanne. Her essay in NY MAG is worth reading. (via yrfriendliz) I never watched Roseanne but this essay makes me want to, or to see her on tour or something. What a badass. (via nerd-gasms)
I grew up watching Roseanne, and I’m pretty sure that her...
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“The Justice Department’s indictment narrows the frame around Drake’s actions,...”
– Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker (via danielholter)
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“An economist is someone who believes in the endless growth of material wealth,...”
– Nick_m, from Philosophy Forums (via iamnothingami)
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Response to legal threat to coalcares.org from... →
The following letter has been sent to lawyers for Peabody Energy in response to their threat:
Dear Andrew Baum, Foley Lardner LLP, and Peabody Energy,
Thank you for your thoughtful letter demanding that we remove Peabody’s name from www.coalcares.org and cease falsely suggesting that Peabody cares about kids made sick by coal.
Your threat, although entirely baseless (see this...
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“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they...”
– Al Franken (via greaterthanlapsed)
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“It turns out, however, that some of those most inclined to exalt American...”
– The myth of American exceptionalism - The Washington Post
American Exceptionalism is bullshit shorthand for “I refuse to recognize your humanity as equal to mine because for arbitrary reasons I believe I am better.”
We’re people first, and Americans second.
(via spytap)
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The Non-Simple Economics of the Minimum Wage →
So, contrary to Economics 101, there’s not really an independent demand curve for labour. And the supply for labour cannot be depicted simplistically, either. In fact, labour supply often declines as wages increase (since workers can then afford more leisure time). The two lines don’t reliably and stably cross. In fact, it’s not clear they cross at all: even where wages are unregulated,...
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“So if we say that our slaves are equal but still overwork them, own them,...”
– nakedpastor (via azspot)
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Budget Mix-Up Provides Nation's Schools With... →
“The fact that this careless mistake also ended up financing new teacher training programs, allowing educators to become more than just glorified babysitters, is disgraceful,” Sessions said. “Now we are left with a situation where schools can attract talented professionals who really want to teach our children, which will in turn create smarter and more motivated students who...
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Autism epidemic challenged by UK research →
A national UK survey out Monday found no traces of an “autism epidemic,” despite earlier reports that the developmental disorder has been rising quickly in recent decades. Researchers found nearly one percent of Britons older than 16 years have autism, a rate that is similar to that seen in children. Younger people were no more likely to be affected than older ones, however, which would have...
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Homeland Security Suspends Ineffective,... →
Zero for 93,000. That was the government’s terrorism conviction record resulting from several preventive immigration measures that targeted citizens of principally Arab- and Muslim-majority nations. At the heart of these efforts stood the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System or NSEERS.
Last Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made a long-overdue...
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“Republicans don’t dare admit how bad the economy is because they don’t want to...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
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“These days Americans get constant lectures about the need to reduce the budget...”
– A Crisis from the Top: The Unwisdom of Elites (via azspot)
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School choice birthed in authoritarian racial... →
School Choice, the bedrock of modern education reform, was born as an educational strategy in 1954, after the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate but equal black and white public schools were unconstitutional. The order to desegregate public education motivated Southern racist authoritarians to search for new ways to maintain their dominance and racial apartheid....
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“I think we can put the ticking-bomb scenario out the window now. KSM and al-Libi...”
– David Dayen (via soupsoup)
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“The problem with quotations on the Internet is that often times, they’re...”
– Abraham Lincoln
So, my previous post included a portion of a quote which alllllycat correctly pointed out was not actually said by Martin Luther King Jr. but was attributed to him. I apologize for misleading anyone. I have now edited that post so that it contains a more accurate quotation.
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“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963
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Dave Eggers: The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries... →
Imagine a novice teacher, thrown into an urban school, told to teach five classes a day, with up to 40 students each. At the year’s end, if test scores haven’t risen enough, he or she is called a bad teacher. For college graduates who have other options, this kind of pressure, for such low pay, doesn’t make much sense. So every year 20 percent of teachers in urban districts quit. Nationwide, 46...
