…and ignorance.
And they all have a right to be here — they just don’t think you and I should be.
Tags: Glenn Beck, teapartytracker.org
Worth Repeating
6 Sep
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From Paul Krugman in his 9/6/10 NY Times column:
Even under F.D.R., there was never the political will to do what was needed to end the Great Depression; its eventual resolution came essentially by accident.I had hoped that we would do better this time. But it turns out that politicians and economists alike have spent decades unlearning the lessons of the 1930s, and are determined to repeat all the old mistakes. And it’s slightly sickening to realize that the big winners in the midterm elections are likely to be the very people who first got us into this mess, then did everything in their power to block action to get us out.
But always remember: this slump can be cured. All it will take is a little bit of intellectual clarity, and a lot of political will. Here’s hoping we find those virtues in the not too distant future.
Tags: Paul Krugman, Great Depression, 1930s, Economic, Social Sciences
NAACP’s Tea Party Tracker
29 Aug
Tags: Racism, Tea Party, NAACP, teapartytracker.org, teapartytracker
Karen Armstrong on the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan
25 Aug
Other than getting the issue of the pre-existence of the Islamic center at it’s present location wrong, Karen Armstrong offers a deeply spiritual and enlightened view of this faux-controversy that has been fanned by Gingrich, Palin and the Fox crowd in this video.
I wonder if Sarah Palin would want to debate the pros and cons of the project with Ms. Armstrong. Or Newt. Or maybe both. I’m sure Karen Armstrong could take both of them on at the same time. I would pay a premium to see that debate on Pay-Per-View.
There’s more Via Open Culture…
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- The Case For God, By Karen Armstrong (independent.co.uk)
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Tags: Islam, Karen Armstrong, Lower Manhattan Islamic Center, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Sarah Palin
And the Winner is: RANDOM HOUSE!
25 Aug
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After a monthlong standoff, Random House said on Tuesday that it now held the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classic books that the literary agent Andrew Wylie had defiantly begun publishing last month under his own digital venture, Odyssey Editions.
Random House also said it would immediately resume doing new business with the Wylie Agency. Since July 22, the publisher has refused to acquire new books from the Wylie Agency and its more than 700 clients.
“We are pleased to announce that the Wylie Agency and Random House have resolved our differences over the disputed Random House titles which have been included in the Odyssey Editions e-book publishing program,” said a joint statement signed by Markus Dohle, the chairman and chief executive of Random House, and Mr. Wylie. It added: “We both are glad to be able to put this matter behind us.”
There’s more from the NY Times…
Tags: Publishing, Wylie Agency, Odyssey Editions, E-book, Random House, Andrew Wylie, Markus Dohle
Fusion: The Synergy of Images and Words (via Steve McCurry’s Blog)
23 Aug
A beautiful post about humanity’s relationship love affair with the book:
Tags: Arts, Book, E-book, Johannes Gutenberg, Literature, Printing press, Reading, Shopping
A Valentine’s Day Like No Other
23 Aug
Author’s note: This was first published 2/14/10. It is still my reality, that of millions of Cubans and others around the world who’ve suffered the same fate as I throughout our imperfect history.
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Forty years ago today I became an exile.
I left Cuba on a day like today as a fourteen-year-old with my seventeen-year-old sister, traveling through Spain to get to the promised land: Southern California. This is where our cousins — the ones that sent for us — had settled. An American friend of theirs from church had donated the money to pay for my airfare. My cousins had paid for my sister’s.
In Spain we stayed with friends that were making the same trip but who were ahead of us by a couple of months. My parents were to join us later in Los Angeles, if everything worked out. It was not until years later that I was able to comprehend how big an if that had been.
Tags: Cuba, Cuban exile, Cuban-American, Exile, Valentine's Day
Cuban Sounds circa 1964
22 Aug
I was 9 years-old when this was being played somewhere in Cuba. It could have been my backyard, it sounds so familiar. Enjoy!
Tags: Cuba, Cuban Music, Chapotin
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I was born on the Western end of Cuba but I've lived 72.2 % of my days north of the Mason-Dixon Line, feeling surprisingly at home, I should add. This may have to do with my long held suspicion -- confirmed by a dream many years ago -- that I had been a New Englander in a previous life.
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