May 2012
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May 13th
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“But anyone who has seen footage of high-ranking police officers pepper-spraying...”
– Open Letters Monthly
May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 2nd
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March 2012
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Sunday is Bake Bread Day. The little bakery in Joshua Tree was the only place around to get fresh baked bread. It closed down about a year and a half ago, and that’s when I had to learn to bake it myself. This is the basic rustic boule, adapted from the Sullivan Street Bakery/Mark Bittman method and made with organic whole wheat flour (and a little unbleached all purpose flour), sea salt,...
Mar 26th
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“The powerful women disciples follow Jesus to the cross and beyond the cross to...”
–  From Broken and Shared, a remarkable new book by Jeff Dietrich of the LA Catholic Worker soup kitchen on Skid Row.
Mar 20th
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Interview: Ken Layne, Author and Blogger | The... →
Here’s something by Joshua Goldfond from the news arts/culture site, The Oculus Online.
Mar 15th
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Mar 9th
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News About Your New Wonkette
So much nice press today, about Rebecca Schoenkopf becoming the new owner and editor of Wonkette, that politics/insanity online publication I’ve been editing for SIX YEARS. I am very much ready to do very different things, but I also love this site and have spent a good chunk of my life writing for it. Anyway, here’s my comrade Martin Wisckol in the Orange County Register, writing...
Mar 3rd
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February 2012
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Happy Internet Sabbath Eve. I’ve got 10 iBooks promotional copies of my novel Dignity free for the asking. First 10 to click the “Contact Me” email button will get the free download code. Read a review or two, first, to see if you actually want such a book on your iPhone/iPad.
Feb 19th
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January 2012
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Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“TERRY: Because I think what is killing us is the level of comfort, this of...”
– Interview: Tim DeChristopher and Terry Tempest Williams | Terry Tempest Williams | Orion Magazine
Dec 31st
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2012: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy As the Human... →
So I wrote my year-end piece for Wonkette, and it’s basically a very long Mayan Apocalypse/2012 rant that ends up yelling at Radiohead for being frauds, because they wouldn’t go play their guitars for 10 minutes at Occupy Wall Street.
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 7th
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November 2011
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 19th
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Worth another, slow read: @Xeni's Q&A with #OWS... →
Mark Read on Boing Boing: “It’s the beginning of the beginning.” I loved that one. So frequently, things happen in the world that make it feel like we’re at the beginning of the end. But—”the beginning of the beginning,” what a radically optimistic statement that is. The scale of the environmental and economic crisis we are facing, it’s ...
Nov 19th
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“That’s pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline...”
– Hahaha, I think I’ll print out this Noam Chomsky quote and staple it to my first-grader’s next Behavior Report. (You know, because he gets bored sitting there after the work is done, and wants to draw or talk or hear a story.) — Via cultureofresistance.
Nov 18th
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Matt Langer: Here's a thought! →
langer: It’s novel, I know, but seriously: If you, in your professional capacity as a reporter, run a story based on what “policemen say,” when what “policemen say” has been clearly and thoroughly contradicted beyond any and all reasonable doubt by who knows how many thousands of firsthand…
Nov 17th
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Congressional Support Grows For Bill To Shut Down... →
Here’s a post I just typed up for Wonkette, about the delightful new “Great Firewall” law the “Bipartisan Congress” is cooking up for Obama to sign. And, I guess, this will be all blocked out by Tumblr for the CENSORED stunt, which is good?
Nov 17th
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Long ago I lived in a moldy Victorian in the Lower... →
Here is Tony Pierce writing about it.
Nov 17th
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“Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies,...”
– I almost always agree with Chris Hedges, and have long admired him for dumping the NYT for becoming a Prophet. But his writing isn’t always so awesome. This column is awesome: http://www.truth-out.org/what-revolution-looks/1321384587 )
Nov 16th
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Nov 15th
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When Badass Environmental Groups Fight Back... →
cultureofresistance: John Sauven, Executive Director of Greenpeace, attacked Sea Shepherd today in a Huffington Post story accusing us of being counter productive to the campaign of saving whales. “We have to say each to their own tactics. We think strategically to fight our battles and we feel that we are winning the battle against whaling by talking to the Japanese themselves,” he stated. “Sea...
Nov 12th
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 3rd
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October 2011
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 10th
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Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept... →
The recession is over! Oh wait ….
Oct 10th
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“We intend to march on the police everywhere …. The precise programming of...”
–  William S. Burroughs, from the June 1969 Evergreen Review, quoted in V. Vale’s most recent “weekly column” on the RE/Search blog, July 24, 2011, “We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.”
Oct 9th
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Oct 1st
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September 2011
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Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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“Joblessness continues to rise, particularly among the youth, who typically...”
– Riots: Violent unrest has swept Europe and the Middle East. Is America next? - By Sudhir Venkatesh (via paulmdavis)
Sep 26th
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“If you want your government to stop killing everybody, at home and abroad, you...”
– Sun Tzu, Tumblr
Sep 22nd
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Here's an interview I did with The Nevada Review. →
Sep 2nd
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August 2011
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“The largest transfer of wealth from the public to private sector is about to...”
– Congress Giving Millions of Foreclosed Homes To Wall Street Slumlords This should be kind of big news on the outrage front, shouldn’t it?
Aug 24th
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Angry, frustrated and scared, thousands of... →
They expected maybe a thousand to show up. At least twice that many jobless L.A. people turned out, “hurting, frustrated and angry.” One day soon, they’ll figure out that not even Maxine Waters is going to change the basic system of boom/bust with the poor and the black always taking the pain.
Aug 21st
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“We desire to be redeemed from the grossness of our consumption, the sham of our...”
– Postmodernism is dead | Prospect Magazine
Aug 19th
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Aug 14th
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“The Obama administration is examining ways to pull foreclosed properties off the...”
– Government Considering Renting Foreclosed Homes - WSJ.com
Aug 11th
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“In one NBC report, a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved...”
– (via Penny Red re: the London riots) Everything that’s wrong with our media in one exchange. (via anthonyking) Submitted without comment. (via laughterkey)
Aug 10th
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Aug 9th
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Ken Layne's Modest Utopia | Commentary | SoCal... →
Aug 3rd
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July 2011
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Here's a weird thing to find the day after...
Similar small underground labyrinths have been found across Europe, from Hungary to Spain, but no one knows why they were built. At least 700 of these chambers have been found in Bavaria alone, along with about 500 in Austria. In the local vernacular, they have fanciful names such as “Schrazelloch” (“goblin hole”) or “Alraunenhöhle” (“mandrake...
Jul 30th
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