February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
13 posts
“Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures.”
– Dan Rubin (via simplebits)
“I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press...”
– Hitch (via kateoplis)
Robert Reich: An Offer to the President Mr.... →
THIS.
robertreich:
An Offer to the President
Mr. President, we heard what you said last week in Kansas – about the dangers to our economy and democracy of the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top.
We agree. And many of us are prepared to work our hearts to get you reelected –…
Robert Reich: Newt's Tax Plan, and Why His Polls... →
robertreich:
Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from what is simply irresponsible to wildly reckless.
Every dollar estimate I’m about to share with you comes from the independent, non-partisan Tax Policy Center – a group whose estimates are used by almost everyone on…
Make sure you click through to read the whole post. These are the stakes.
My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick Meighan
darcibastiaan:
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” ...
November 2011
10 posts
3 tags
David Bowie - 1984
Diamond Dogs is such a strange...
Worst California biker feud in decade erupted at... →
“It was all about who would be allowed to hang out at the Starbucks downtown,” Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said.
AWESOME.
Kickstarter - The Montserrat Typeface →
“I’ve been trying to think about whether or not the world is going to end...”
– STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET - Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing
“It no longer matters if there continues to be a football program at Penn State....”
– Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland
October 2011
4 posts
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson (via ninedaysoff)
WatchBilly Collins - The Dead (via The Internet Archive)
September 2011
5 posts
6 tags
3 tags
“This legislative assault is moving in a diametrically opposed direction to 200...”
– Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout
“The secret is a wondrous concoction of red jalapeno chili peppers, vinegar,...”
– Yes. Confessions Of A Sriracha Fanatic : NPR
August 2011
7 posts
1 tag
Soup: Bought some US stocks →
robdelaney:
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5000 largest American companies. I did this because I wish to take substantive action against Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit. Standard & Poor’s, and to a…
“The budget deficit is not the biggest obstacle to our prosperity. Lack of jobs...”
– Robert Reich (Ransom Paid)
July 2011
7 posts
“Baker explains that if tea partiers want to frame the debt debate in terms of...”
– Memo to Tea Party: The US Government’s Budget is Not Like a Family’s | Mother Jones
Robert Reich: Vicious Cycles: Why Washington is... →
robertreich:
We now live in parallel universes.
One universe is the one in which most Americans live. In it, almost 15 million people are unemployed, wages are declining (adjusted for inflation), and home values are still falling. The unsurprising result is consumers aren’t buying — which is causing employers…
