November, 2011
Success!
Fantastic news! It looks like the quest to keep Hilary’s mom from being evicted has been successful! It’s the evening of November 30, and Hilary writes: Hello all! The goal has been reached as of tonight! Thank you all so much for your well-wishes and donations, and for sharing the link elsewhere…I’m going to call [...]
When not to use pepper spray, part 2
Via the LA Times. I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. I also hope you’re all still alive this Black Friday and haven’t been pepper sprayed, shot, or trampled to death.
Help keep Hilary’s mom from being evicted
(Sticky.) Loyal reader Hilary Gardiner writes that her Mom is on the verge of being evicted from her trailer park home. Hilary had a kidney transplant last year and her mother nursed her through it. Now Mom is behind in her rent and facing eviction: You might be wondering why I’ve given all this seemingly [...]
When not to use pepper spray
Via Cosmic Variance.
What she said
Here’s Sady Doyle on why being a feminist blogger is sickening and depressing as hell. Yup.
The banksters of Old Babylon
In the Old Babylonian Period (2000 to 1600 BCE), the traditional state/temple-run economic system was supplanted by a heavily privatized capitalism. From A History of the Ancient Near East, by Marc Van de Mieroop (emphasis added): This system of economic organization and management was a hallmark of the entire period from 2000 to 1600 [BCE]. [...]
Occupy Global Day of Action: open thread
Anybody here doing anything? I see that Riverdaughter will be in New York today. I’m probably just going to occupy my chair, and then maybe my bed for awhile. I might occupy the yard with Molly later on.
A $200 impulse buy
Am I the only person in the world who thinks 200 bucks is serious money? Okay, not exactly serious, but significant. It’s a chunk of change, you know? But here’s ZDNet calling the $199 Kindle Fire an “impulse buy”: The Kindle Fire is the tablet for the rest of the market. The reasonable price of [...]
I need to hook up this “socialist whore” guy with the people on the Rapture board
You’ve probably already heard about the heckler who called Elizabeth Warren a “socialist whore.” He also tells her that her “boss” (Obama?) is “foreign-born.” I share Elizabeth Warren’s compassion for the guy. He’s been out of work since 2010, he’s a moron, whaddya gonna do? I think he needs to find that Rapture board I [...]
