October 2011
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“Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time...”
– ee cummings
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“Isn’t it odd that we should take a spasm, every now and then, and go...”
– Mark Twain, Letter to Hartford Courant, 11/22/1879
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U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Did anyone else get a sinking feeling immediately after learning the news of Bin Laden’s death? Was it the guilt of feeling happy that another person had been killed? Was it your rationalization of this happiness? Or was it that you realized that our most patriotic moments of late have involved killing a Middle Eastern...
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Watch
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“The process by which states certify textbooks is corrupt. But if we can make...”
– Steve Jobs
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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self...”
– Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/capitalism.html#ixzz1bLT3NnFG
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WatchJamie Johnson’s two documentaries Born Rich (2003) and The One Percent (2006) are highly relevant watching for the Occupy Wall Street movement. What irks me is that this guy, who raised the same points that we are talking about today in earnest, and appeared to be OK with his pariah status among the wealthy folk, has now seemingly disappeared. Did he get shunned by his family? Did he...
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The 99% Platform →
Prison reform (including legalization of marijuana) should be part of the 99%’s demands.
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
-John Steinbeck
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