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Monday, January 20, 2014
re: the controversy over Richard Sherman's "interview" following the Seahawks-49ers football game
By Pablo Fanque, Sports Editor
We pay football players to stop people, find people, hurt people, and avoid people. If they can do that, why do we care what they do with the rest of the time?
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
George Etzel Pearcy's 38 states of America
By Jack Brummet, Geography Ed.
Pearcy's original version
In 1973, George Etzel Pearcy, a California State geography professor, proposed that the U.S. refashion its old state boundaries to reduce the number of states to thirty-eight. Part of his idea was to distribute larger cities among the states. The new states would be named after their geological features, or historic events (Cascade, Alamo, Prairie, etc).
There was a lot of support for this change--except in Washington, D.C.
Rob Lammle, a cartographer, created a more finished version years later, showing how cities would be better distributed in the 38 state system.
Rob Lammle, a cartographer, created a more finished version years later, showing how cities would be better distributed in the 38 state system.
Rob Lammle's version
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Poem: The Mission
By Jack Brummet
The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth—
On the evil and the good.
We're all just customers
Of the sun
With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.
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The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth—
On the evil and the good.
We're all just customers
Of the sun
With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot each other, strangle each other, and kill whole families (via Raw Story )
On Tuesday, Nancy Grace began to channel the notorious film "Reefer Madness," and claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle each other, and that children shouldn’t bear witness to their parents drinking soda. Click here to read the entire story.
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Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book!
By Jack Brummet, '60's Ed.I loved Abbie Hoffman's first book when I was young. Thumbing through it now, through the filter of years, I still admire its indulgent, subversive anarchy. Well, someone has really stolen it, or at least placed it online (there is no difference, is there?). I bought the book twice. The first time, of course. . .someone stole it. I found this book online because bannination.com listed it with the caption "Dirty hippies give tips to unemployable bankers on how to survive in meltdown economy."
There is a lot of good stuff, and plenty of silly, indulgent, and even dangerous stuff here. Maybe you had to have "been there," I'm not sure! Click here to Steal This Book,
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Poem: Waiting
By Jack Brummet
There is
no tomorrow
until we
get through
the day
after yesterday
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Poem: Tendrils
By Jack Brummet
When
a tree is chopped down
Volunteer shoots sprout
From the roots,
Sending tendrils of life into the world
In an urgent last gasp—
A genetic S.O.S.—
Like what they say
Happens
When you hang a man.
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From the roots,
Sending tendrils of life into the world
In an urgent last gasp—
A genetic S.O.S.—
Like what they say
Happens
When you hang a man.
Strange toilets, kaybos, latrines, loos, WCs, restrooms, and bathrooms from around the world
By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.
[some of these are reader submissions; some collected from vartious sites and G.I.S.]
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[some of these are reader submissions; some collected from vartious sites and G.I.S.]
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Elena Shumilova's amazing photographs of her kids, farm, and animals
By Jack Brummet, Photography Ed.
Sweet photographs by Elena Shumilova of her kids and farm/domestic animals. Amazing colors, environments, kids, critters, and weather. Good stuff. Check them out here, on Bored Panda.
Sweet photographs by Elena Shumilova of her kids and farm/domestic animals. Amazing colors, environments, kids, critters, and weather. Good stuff. Check them out here, on Bored Panda.
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