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The page http://sopastrike.com/ is on strike today to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act.Today, we are striking against censorship. Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!Name Email Address ZipcodeWrite Congress Now!Not In The US? Petition The State Department.I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to oppose the Senate version of S. 968,

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You may have seen the bumper sticker, "Live simply so that others may simply live." It is inspiring and a noble aspiration to decrease consumption habits, forgoing shopping as entertainment, the credit economy, and lots of plastic waste. "Reduce" is the first "R" in the mantra of the environmental movement to "reduce, reuse, recycle." But how do you know whether your effort is making a

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Everyone needs safe, healthy, affordable housing. Utah law lags behind other states in adequately protecting and expanding tenants rights. Laws that have been written primarily with the convenience of landlords in mind are unbalanced and contribute to greater homelessness and social instability.For example, it is very easy for a landlord to evict a tenant and while we usually think of eviction

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Lately, I've been trying to placate my artistic, individualistic soul which grows impatient when the self-sacrifice required to work within the monetary economy, collaborate with others for social change, nurture and educate they young, and keep the health inspector away from my door seem to be taking up every waking hour. I experience an inner rebellion of the desiring Subject--who doesn't like

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Let me just say that ever since the very first episode of this season's Project Runway, I thought Seth Aaron was the first designer they ever had who understood "street" and hipness as well as tailoring and color. That is an extremely rare find. Wow, what execution and imagination. What creativity of materials. What a sweetheart, so humble and hardworking and a family man with a trampoline--

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I have begun a community group that discusses our visions for a better economic system (or systems)--one that values community, the environment, and social justice.We meet every two weeks at the First Unitarian Universalist Church through our Environmental Ministry program. We had a class like this last year in which we read Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten which looked specifically at

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Fashion, almost by definition, is a fast-changing (arbitrary?) form of consumption that seems to have excess & inequality built into it. Thousands of new styles are produced each year while a few hundred are picked up and only a handful "stick" to define an era. This must leave many older items to be tossed out every year potentially resulting in lots of waste. In addition, there has been

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On Tuesday, May 8, 2007 I wrote a column titled "B Corporations get an A+." In it I described current corporate charter language and the danger of its current interpretation. B Corporations may offer an important alternative.In that earlier article, I noted that Adam Smith's dictum about maximizing profit has been mis-applied, misinterpreted and etched in the stone of public corporation

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Join the fight for Universal, single payer healthcare "Medicare for All" It's HR 676 and it covers everyone. If everyone is in and nobody is out--everybody is covered. No "pre-existing conditions." No staying around in a hated job just for the health coverage. No worrying whether you will actually be covered in the event of a health crisis.It's efficient. More money for actual health care

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How should we evaluate whether the "new stimulus" is helping? What about the investments in infrastructure? Why not start defining economic effectiveness in a new way with new indicators? Here are some ideas to get us thinking quite seriously about re-imagining the economy--what it is and what it is for.What’s the Economy for, Anyway? By John de Graaf “If they

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In 2005, Ang Lee was robbed when "Crash" instead of "Brokeback Mountain" won best picture. Many speculate it was because academy members were uncomfortable with its subject matter. Two academy members refused to even view it. It's almost unheard of for a "best director" and "best picture" not be awarded to the same film. While Phillip Seymore Hoffman was truly great in "Capote," Heath Ledger

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Marcy Kaptur, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Dennis Kucinich. Zeitgeist Boheme says: support progressive candidates by contributing to the campaigns of the above progressive Democrats.Congratulations, Corporate Crime Fighters! Coup Averted for Three Days! ...from Michael Moore‏ From: Michael Moore (maillist@michaelmoore.com)

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The Bailout and What's Next Dear Friend, Yesterday marked a day that will go down in history, when Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike took on full responsibility to protect the interests of taxpaying Americans, and defeated the deceptive bail out bill, defying the dictates of the Administration, the House Majority Leadership, the House Minority

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If eighty-billion buysAn insurance company--Why not HEALTH insurance?"More of the same" canHardly begin to describe"Nail in the coffin."Why should governmentBuy what no one else will touch?To crush it for good.America isA wounded young wildebeestIn a lion's jaws.

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As your constituent, I want you to make sure that the automobile industry does not receive any of my hard earned money unless it comes with strings attached to ensure that they use it to make safer, cleaner/greener, more fuel efficient vehicles. The auto industry is pushing hard for as much as 50 billion dollars in loan guarantees to bail out their struggling companies. I am unsympathetic

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Notes from The Parallax View by Slavoj ZizekDue to new developments in biotechnology and neuroscience it might at some point be possible to translate chemical brain signals into digital signals. The philosopher/intellectual Slavoj Zizek wonders in The Parallax View whether “minds” could be preserved and could exist digitally. It remains to wonder whether such entities would have consciousness

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What It Is by Lynda BarryMy review rating: 5 of 5 starsThe revoloooshunary out there book of the dayWhen you were a kid, did you have a toy that knew you? Were your toys alive? Did the wallpaper have secret shapes that only you knew about? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions then you already have experienced the state of mind this book will help you find again. If not, it will

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If you look for organic food in the supermarket, it also makes sense to send organic flowers. Many of the flowers at our florists and supermarkets are imported from countries with lax pesticide laws. It is healthier for flower recipients, for florists, and most especially for flower growing agricultural workers when we buy organic flowers. It's also better for the environment, for our water,

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We must have universal, not-for-profit healthcare "Medicare for all" but what will happen to the economy when we go to it?It will be good for the economy because: Healthy people are more productive workersEntrepreneurs are covered and more people could afford to leave their jobs and start their own businessesCompanies could afford to pay higher wages when healthcare costs are

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One of my biggest complaints against Hillary was that she voted to tighten restrictions on bankrupcy filings.I was pretty angry about this because it seemed to me that she was voting in favor of the predatory lenders who defraud customers and then take away everything they own.Also, I thought of the uninsured who, faced with skyrocketing medical bills, have to sell their houses to pay for it.In

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If you live in Utah and listen to KCPW, you might have heard their urgent pleas for cash to purchase the station and keep it local. Not much more was said about it, leaving the situation unusually murky for a station noted for its excellent news coverage. I had heard rumors of possible financial impropriety back in 2005, so, since then, I had not been contributing, so what's the deal?The deal is

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Amtrak gets a workout along the East Coast, but is underutilized in the rest of the country. That's about to change now that gas prices have skyrocketed and airline service in deep trouble. There's an underpublicized bill now on the floor S. 294 The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008. The funding bill costs less than $100 per family and would not only improve service, access

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Wendy Gonaver, an American Studies Professor at Cal State University was dismissed for altering the wording of a required "loyalty oath." The oath requires the signer to swear to "defend" the U.S. and California constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Gonaver added "non-violently" and offered to attach a statement explaining her Quaker affiliation and pacifist commitment.

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This entry was spurred by two events:Jeremiah Wright gave thoughtful answers to Bill Moyers on Bill Moyers Journal. If you have not seen it, I recommend looking it up on YouTube.Wright's appearance at the Press Club, on the other hand, was a surreal event. He was peppered with many insulting questions that betrayed either the ignorance or the visciousness of the questioner it's hard to tell

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"Enchanted" was a lot of fun . But my favorite part was discovering that my former acting teacher, Bert Michaels appears in this song and dance number. He's one of the "old men" on the bench -- smaller, skinny, golf cap, pencil mustache. He's still got the moves. Go Bert!Fairy Tale Princess is thrown out of Animated Feature into New York. The Damsel in Distress is rescued by lawyer, Patrick

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Just the other day, after watching the documentary, "No End in Sight" I wondered how the occupation of Iraq would end. Even if the U.S. ended its role and removed the U.S. military, the country would continue to be occupied by private corporations with their own private militaries without accountability to any government.If this sounds extreme, consider that some corporations have exceeded the

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Wallace Stevens was not only a poet, he was also the vice-president of a large insurance company. When asked by an associate, "Why write poetry, there's no money in it?" Stevens quipped, "Sure, there's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money either."Creativity seems, for some, to confer a mysterious feeling of wholeness that directed work is insufficient to foster. This ineffable

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"It's easier to impress people than to give them pleasure." --Nigella Lawson

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This video was created by Lucy Knisley, an artist and animator in Rhinebeck, New York .

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The economy is stalling out. Oil prices way up. And so is environmental awareness. Just like the Carter era and the tail end of the Daddy Bush era. Disciplined and sharp looks so keen in the 50's and 80's are moving aside for the bohemian, for relaxed lines, abstract jewelry and embellishment. Earth tones, natural fabrics, and knits bring forward the 70's hipster along with the 90's eco and

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Tokio Hotel,a band from Leipzig, Germany got fans, mostly teenage girls screaming especially for Bill Kaulitz. KELEFA SANNEH of the NY Times writes:"The occasion was the first New York performance by Tokio Hotel, a German act that scrambles musical categories in a way that feels ideally suited to the current era. Why shouldn’t fans go nuts for a goth-punk boy band influenced by the darkly

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Language Spotlight:A "yellow-dog" Democrat usually describes a voter-- a voter whose identity is so deeply tied to the Democratic party that he/she will vote for the Democratic candidate "even if it is a yellow dog."A "blue-dog" Democrat is usually (ironically) a red state Democrat who believes the only way to get elected in predominantly conservative communities is to vote with Republicans as

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I'm referring to the event that Dennis Kucinich has dropped out of the presidential race. I was deeply involved in campaign efforts here in Utah for the only candidate who supports single-payer, universal national health insurance and who co-authored the legislation to make it happen. His support was underestimated and now we'll receive no true account. His support was deliberately undermined by

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I will admit that during the Nevada Democratic Presidential Candidate's Debate I was impressed when Chris Dodd all of a sudden fluently addressed one of the questioners in Spanish, (the questioner's native language.) Dodd explained that he had served in the Peace Corp in the Dominican Republic. I thought about Bush's halting Spanish not too much worse than his English and Bush managing through

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Today, a radio program on NPR discussing the American economy featured one dismal and anxious economist and one devil-may-care economist. A caller suggested buying American toys this Christmas to help us get America back on track. The economists responded in the following way. (These are paraphrases.) Economist #1 said "No. Don't buy anything! We're heavily in debt! Get your kid a card or make

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On November 6, Utah will be voting on a private school voucher referendum. The result will be a test case for other states. I am against private school vouchers for several reasons. 1. Public money could be used to fund for-profit schools in which case the public money redistributes money upward from low-income families to private, profit-making institutions and is therefore a regressive

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Local Newspapers estimated 1,000 marched in Salt Lake City on October 27th, part of an eleven city march nationwide.The puppets are "peace spirits" I made for the event as part of the "don't be scared of peace" campaign affiliated with the Dennis Kucinich for President Campaign.

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SIGN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORDhttp://www.democrats.com/impeach-cheney-congressional-recordImpeach D. Cheney and George W. Bush for violating their oaths of office; for unconstitutional expansion of "executive privileges" such as war powers and surveillance;for the suspension of habeas corpus;for invading two sovereign countries on false pretenses: Iraq and Haiti;for human rights abuses in

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Reason. We're are not "crazy" because we want peace. We want democracy, liberty, and a rule of law. We are the voice of reason. Dennis Kucinich is leading the way with a very reasonable idea: a department of peace. Impeaching Cheney-Bush is reasonable because they have violated their oaths of office and are enemies of the constitution. These ideas are the most reasonable going, but they are

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Cheney doesn't need state power to consolidate power in the hands of elites. But it helps. Securing government contracts, especially those without much oversight has vastly enriched and expanded corporations such as Halliburton and guns for hire like Blackwater. The more military operations and administrative capacities are allowed to privatize and to expand, the groundwork is laid for

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SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 2007BRING ALL THE TROOPS HOME NOWU.S. OUT OF IRAQBUILD BRIDGES NOT BOMBSELEVEN CITIESBOSTONCHICAGOLOS ANGELESNEW YORK CITYNEW ORLEANSORLANDOPHILADELPHIASALT LAKE CITYSAN FRANCISCOSEATTLEIf you live one of these cities, please go to www.oct27.org for more information about your local eventFOR SALT LAKE CITY RESIDENTSGATHER @ THE CAPITOL BUILDING STARTING 11AMFOR A MARCH at

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The economy is a feature of our common wealth just as the environment is.The notions of "general welfare" and "blessings of liberty" come straight from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. While the Constitution (if upheld) does much to provide a structure in which manifestations of these concepts may flourish, fully creating them will require greater participation, imagination, and action.In

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Public Citizen released a new report all about how arbitration clauses are being inserted into credit card and other types of contracts. "The Arbitration Trap: How Credit Card Companies Ensnare Consumers," details how our right to a trial by judge or jury is being replaced by a pro-business arbitration process.I just asked my representatives to support the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007, which

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This is the best Dennis Kucinich interview yet.

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Scroll anywhere throughout this blog for some great music & videos. I've been mining YouTube for some favorite clips. Many are recent so "older blogs" might mean just yesterday.Peace,Z

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Three Penny Opera, the 1931 film by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weil is now available on a newly restored DVD by the outstanding team at the Criterion Collection. The sound quality is amazing and the story keeps one's interest. There were many versions, scripts, and writers involved besides Berthold Brecht, though he gets most of the credit. His plot treatment is mostly what gets featured here,

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Herrlich von Lotte Lenya. Ich liebe dieses schönes Lied. :-) genial interpretiert und guter Beat.

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A Poem by Robert DesnosFilm by Man RayTranslation into the Portugese unknownRobert Desnos 1900-1945 was appreciated among the surrealists for his spontaneous oral poems which he performed in a trance at gatherings and for his richly lyrical written poems. His best known poem from his early period is "I have Dreamed of You So Much: written for his girlfriend, Yvonne Georges after her death,

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I've been reading Jerry Rubin's "Do It." It's amazing what you can find in used book places. I had also previously read Allen Ginsburg's account of the Chicago riots. I've been looking for a video that covers it for some time. Then browsing CSNY stuff, I found this-with some more footage than I've seen anywhere else.

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Song featured in film "Time of the Gypsies" a Roma songcelebrating a holiday "Ederlezi" of spring with flowers, bathing, dance, grilled lamb, songs and brass bands. Haunting and addictive.

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Go, Seabiscuit!

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Many studies examine "risk factors" of poverty which ask, "who is likely to be poor?" Some studies examine impoverished regions and ask, "where are the poor?" A recent book went around the world asking people essentially, "Hey, you're poor! How come?" The researcher's condescending tone led many of those asked to deny the presumption and refused to speculate on the question. The problem with

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My friend and I were having a conversation about names that come up when you are googling someone and you're not sure if a reference matches the person you're searching. I said, "yes, you're never sure if it is der Googelgaenger." When you google yourself, you're sure to discover an evil twin. There's someone with my name in Virginia right now racking up drunk-driving violations. Sometimes,

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What is a "bubble?" A bubble is like a pyramid scheme. In a pyramid scheme there is a product. You buy the product from someone with the idea that you can sell it to someone else. Then you sell it to someone else who hopes THEY can sell it to someone else etc. In order for sellers to make a profit, each seller must increase the price at which the product is sold. Sometimes value is added to the

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As popular as Michael Moore's "Sicko" has been, the central message of the film is sometimes lost in complaints about levels of detail for a universal program. What is most striking in the film is the awareness that NO ONE in America has guaranteed health insurance. No one can say with certainty that treatment for their ailment will be covered. Treatment could be denied for any reason at any time

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In a previous post, I showed a letter I had written to Congress for New Urbanism asking them to lower their membership fees for students and advocates as the rates were far closer to those required in a professional organization than in a group seeking wider acceptance and appeal. Some weeks later I received the following reply....Joanna, I apologize for the overdue reply. Thanks for taking the

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ABC posted an online poll asking "Who won the debate after Democratic Presidential Forum in Washington, June 19, 2007. As Dennis Kucinich was shown to be winning in a landslide, the poll was removed from the website without explanation or comment. A new poll was posted asking "Who is winning..." Again Kucinich was in the lead and again the poll was removed without explaination. The results were

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Videos by PeaceOnEarth123 | More VMIX videos | Embed this video

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The below article was written by my Mom. If you have a favorite shopping bag, post a picture.All bags featured here are handmade by artisans and are available online:Bags Left to right:"Owl Messenger Bag" from Resist Today $55"Birds in Night-Granny Bag" from CharmDesign at Etsy $52 "Five Pocket Messenger" in Cardinal Pink from Blissbyheather at Etsy $59IT’S EASY BEING GREEN I consider

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So much that is a matter of "policy" with regard to U.S. actions toward the rest of the world ought to be governed by law instead. I have heard pundits repeat "you can't impeach someone for bad policies." What should be the legal restraints on U.S. actions toward other nations and nationals? Are we not subject to respect universal human rights? Or to respecting sovereignty and free & fair

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Yes. I've backslid. I've barely cracked open Slavoj Zizek's Parallax View. I have felt rage, fear, outrage, horror, relief, adulation, dismay, depression, camaraderie, and so many other emotions in a short time frame that I have been focusing my attention on my assigned tasks at work, dreams and schemes (a la Ralph Cramden), writing poems, watching copious amounts of low quality t.v. programs,

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This has been a more hectic week than I thought. The 24th was a state holiday. On the 25th, we experienced a complete power outage at the University of Utah and staff like me were sent home. Still, I hope to average a good deed per day. Tomorrow, I won't be in so next week, I'll have some catching up to do. Today, I inquired further into the University's wind power program. Clearly, energy

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Last night I was listening to a BBC reporter interview an ambassador from China. They were discussing how to improve product standards in China and touched on complaints from the West about toothpaste containing industrial solvents and pet food bulked with melamine resulting in the deaths of dozens of pets. The ambassador noted this was a "delicate" issue and admitted "Western countries deserve

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Monday, 23 July 2007As I've mentioned before-- I support "new urbanism" a movement of architects and others to bring pre-war city planning and architectural values back to our cities by incorporating public transportation, mixed-use zoning, walkability, and add to that contemporary necessities like environmental sustainability. It's compatible with Local First movements, environmentalism, low

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Dennis Kucinich is sponsoring a bill: House Resolution (H. Res.) 333 Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.Status: referred to House subcommittee, referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.Summary: Impeaches Richard B. Cheney, etc as aboveSets forth articles of impeachment stating that Vice

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Many times I have submitted poems to Parnassas:Poetry in Review and many times I've received a letter back rejecting my poems, but for astute reasons always penned in an intelligent hand by Herb Leibowitz. I thought of Parnassas as the pinnacle of achievement. "If only I could get my poems there," I though, "I'll have arrived." While it may not be as well known as "Poetry" or "The Paris Review

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There is purported to be an episode of "King of the Hill" in which the characters discuss global warming. Bill: I don't know, maybe global warming is a good thing.Hank: Bill, we live in Texas. If this state gets one degree hotter, I'll kick your butt.

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It's been some time since I've blogged. I've felt unfocused and a little impulsive lately. Sometimes just lethargic. I've just come back from vacation and now feel rejuvenated. I've been reading everything I can about our political-environmental-cultural situation. It's easy to get quickly overwhelmed. That said, I've decided not to let the issues pile up, but handle them as they come in,

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zeitgeistboheme: Could the "Lost Whales" help us understand Why Whales Beach Themselves?

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Apparently, it is a long-standing mystery among marine biologists as to why whales beach themselves. This latest incident of a humpback whale and her calf going into the shallows of the coast of California raises the question again. It seems possibly significant that both were injured. What if whales seek shallow water when they sick or injured for the same reason humans take to their beds when

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zeitgeistboheme: Linguistic Plutology

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Linguistic Plutology-the author's coinage for linguistic evaluation of the ideological implications of linguistic terms in economic contexts."Supply" and "demand" supposedly drive price in a capitalist economy. We all know what they mean, but through the semantic narrowing of these generalized terms, their larger meanings have been reduced to mere mechanics of existing production systems. "

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zeitgeistboheme: A new way to save..if it existed

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zeitgeistboheme: My Life as a House: Poetry and Watching HGTV

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zeitgeistboheme: Is Culture More Important than Politics?

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zeitgeistboheme: "B" Corporations get an A+

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zeitgeistboheme: What's the difference between a neo-conservative and a neo-liberal?

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Both want economic policies that open borders to capital flows. The answer might give insight into the clash of outlooks that lead to the uprising against Paul Wolfowitz at The World Bank. Commonly reported as a clash between a "liberal-humanitarian" organization and the hawkish Wolfowitz, it's been assumed the halls were buzzing with resentment even before he arrived at his post. While it's

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Bicycles are coolAnd anything powered by legsUntramples the earthYour carbon footprintIs a footstep in the skyWipe off dirty shoesUseful ConsciousnessOxygen has failed, secondsLeft to land the planeFrog boiled in a potSits there until it's too lateDude-we are that frog

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Adam Smith's dictum about "maximizing profit" has been mis-applied and misinterpreted and etched in the stone of public corporation charters and consequently binds corporations to "maximizing profit to shareholders" taken to mean "make the most money possible for the shareholders." That is, in fact, not what Adam Smith meant. Maximizing profit did not mean to put as much money as possible into

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The Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, the group who produces The Hedgehog Review:Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture and which also produces a newsletter has re-vamped their look and created a new mission statement. In their latest newsletter, they claim that "culture determines our social values and laws proceed from them." They cite the example of gay

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There is a television program today called "Clean House" in which the subjects of a given episode are challenged by designer hosts to give up cherished but disused possessions such as vinyl record collections and abandoned hopes such as exercise equipment in favor of sentimental if obsolete notions such as traditional dining room furniture. That the program runs during the dinner hour

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Greener greenbacks? If only there were "domestic agenda bonds" just like there used to be "war bonds" during the WWII. Then socially responsible funds could invest in u.s. treasuries govt. bonds, t-bills etc...without funding the weapons and war industry. I know there are muni-bonds and such, but it would be nice if there were some on the national level. Our financial geniuses with

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This is the best idea I've heard in awhile. Frontline World on PBS featured Kiva.org a small non-profit organization provides a way for anyone with a credit card to issue no interest micro-loans to entrepreneurs of cottage industries in the Third World. Right now, they are focused on Uganda as that seems to be a country most familiar to the organizations founders. The loan applicants are

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