A Good Pace

Apr 23

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Apr 10

“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.” —

Vincent Van Gogh

Don’t worry I will be back blogging soon. Busy with school work.

Apr 04

jgreene2010: and the winner for least impressive goes to… surprise!!…tennessee and all our caves.

jgreene2010:

and the winner for least impressive goes to…

surprise!!…tennessee and all our caves.

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Mar 18

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Feb 28

“Latin America has the highest level of income inequality in the world, and has had for decades. This inequality is, of course, accompanied by striking inequalities in many other areas, especially in access to health care. How this came to be is a very long and complicated historical subject; what can be done about it is equally complex. As matters stand now, some Latin American nations have chosen to adopt a moderate neo-liberal economic model and to depend on strong government policies to confront inequalities; others have opted for a more radical economic model that rejects neo-liberal economics in favor of some form of state-directed capitalism or socialism. The next decade will be the playing field on which these two will compete, both for domestic (electoral) as well as for international support. Whether one or the other will prevail, or whether some sort of synthesis might emerge, is not clear. But what is clear is that the lives and well-being of millions of people will be affected, and therefore making a mistake is likely to prove devastating indeed.”

globemedwdsj:

Dr. Henry Dietz, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

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good: There Are No Ethical Electronics, So Buy Less Stuff In a piece on Salon last week, writer Andrew Leonard laid out the raw truth: There is no ethical smartphone. The sins of Apple’s iPhone factories, where laborers literally and figuratively kill themselves in pursuit of faster gadgets, are well-documented. Just as the problem isn’t only Apple’s, neither is it relegated to phones. Laptops, televisions, digital cameras, and every consumer electronic in between wreak havoc on people and environments at every point in their lifespan—save, of course, for when you own them. Read the piece on GOOD→ 

good:

There Are No Ethical Electronics, So Buy Less Stuff

In a piece on Salon last week, writer Andrew Leonard laid out the raw truth: There is no ethical smartphone. The sins of Apple’s iPhone factories, where laborers literally and figuratively kill themselves in pursuit of faster gadgets, are well-documented. Just as the problem isn’t only Apple’s, neither is it relegated to phones. Laptops, televisions, digital cameras, and every consumer electronic in between wreak havoc on people and environments at every point in their lifespan—save, of course, for when you own them.

Read the piece on GOOD→ 

Feb 22

“Everybody carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is” — Carl Jung -via interview with Woody Harrelson in the February edition of Esquire

Jan 29

There is not way this is ok on any level.  good: La Cage aux Jim Crow: The New Bill That Would Shut Gays Out of Society This shocking new New Hampshire bill that would allow business to refuse service to gays is basically neo-Jim Crow.  The House judiciary committee of the New Hampshire state legislature convened to discuss a bill that would allow businesses to refuse accommodations, goods, or services to gays getting married. New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, though with the caveat that churches and other religious groups could refuse to participate in same-sex ceremonies. The new bill would take that rule a step further, allowing a bakery to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, for instance. Read more on GOOD→ 

There is not way this is ok on any level. 

good:

La Cage aux Jim Crow: The New Bill That Would Shut Gays Out of Society

This shocking new New Hampshire bill that would allow business to refuse service to gays is basically neo-Jim Crow. 

The House judiciary committee of the New Hampshire state legislature convened to discuss a bill that would allow businesses to refuse accommodations, goods, or services to gays getting married. New Hampshire legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, though with the caveat that churches and other religious groups could refuse to participate in same-sex ceremonies. The new bill would take that rule a step further, allowing a bakery to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, for instance.

Read more on GOOD→ 

Jan 23

Things I’m excited for in 2012 (in no particular order)

1. Graduating

2. Getting a job (a real one)

3. 10 new episodes of Arrested Development (god it’s been a while)

4. New Shins album

5. New Forgetting Sarah Marshall sequel

6. Last season of 30 rock, it will be missed.

7. Cooking more often and other things that have to do with my new years resolutions.

8. New Batman

9. Possibly learning code at codeacademy.com

10. Election year politics

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