I've often thought about opening a cafe where everyone would be treated the way they treat people
in their everyday lives. If you are kind and compassionate, the service and food would be
fantastic. If you are normally mean and cranky, your experience may not be so great. I'd call it
the Karma Cafe (besides, Reciprocation Bar and Grill just doesn't roll off the tongue as well).
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"A classic example of how one half naked dancing dude can get an entire party jumping in under
three minutes. Shot at the Sasquatch Festival 2009".
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So now AC Milan wants to sue the US Soccer Federation for Oguchi Onyewu's knee injury picked up in
the USA's 2-2 draw with Costa Rica. It now looks like he won't be recovered and match fit for at
least six months.
Well gee Milan, since you've barely used him since bringing him to the team, was there some secret
plan to start actually letting him play that we didn't know about?
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Watch Jon Stewart skewer the senators who voted against the Franken Rape Amendment;
"I guess it's an efficiency thing. You don't want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who
advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes (like ACORN), you want to give it to
Halliburton because they're committing real gang rape.
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Since PTSD is a malady of a society (not just its warriors), this excellent article explains very
well how we can Heal the Warrior and Heal The Country.
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At last — multitasking is going out of style. At least that is the conclusion of a University of
Michigan professor who studied the subject and concluded that multitasking was counter-productive
in math class.
Check out the rest of the article here.
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I invite you to recall how that outreach went during the January/February stimulus debate as
recounted by the conservative UK daily, The Times (of London).
Do you remember now?
And should anyone then be surprised by how the health care debate has devolved into such acrimony?
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While we never really had a chance to land the 2016 Olympics in Chicago (since we just had the 2002
Winter Games and South America has never held one), its astonishing to see how giddy the
conservatives are that the Windy City was the first one voted out.
Whatever happened to that slogan from the McCain campaign; Country First?
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Gotta love some of the headlines these days which tell us things we already know:
"Eating Twinkies All Day Makes Kids Fat"
"Texting While Driving Can Increase The Chance of Auto Accidents"
and now this one:
"Political scientists report drop in US world standing"
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Nice article in The Nation from Jeff Biggers on the fight against mountaintop removal.
"When the Environmental Protection Agency declared this year on September 11 that all pending
mountaintop removal mining permits in four Appalachian states stood in violation of the Clean Water
Act and required further review, Lora Webb didn't have time to join in any celebrations.
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Forget the Sunday paper, Walden Bello's new piece at Yes! magazine is something nice to read with a
warm cup of coffee.
As leaders of the G20 map out a new economic order, protesters are making it known that they don't
want it to be like the last one. Walden Bello outlines 11 principles of a deglobalized economy that
promotes equity and quality of life rather than growth and environmental destruction.
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Welcome To The Anthropocene!Take a look at this great new article in Wired magazine discussing how close we may be approaching
several ecological tipping points from which we won't be able to recover.
The more complete version of the study cited in the Wired article proposes setting nine critical
planetary boundaries we should not cross, lest we invite ecological catastrophe.
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Yet another classic set of New Rules from Bill Maher.
This time, its "If America Can't Get It Together, We Lose The Bald Eagle."
Gotta say, I think he's got us pegged.
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