May 2010
2 tags
April 2010
2 tags
“If you want to break down someone’s door, why don’t you start with AT&T, for...”
– Jon Stewart
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
Exclusive: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on... →
seaofgreen:
The United Nations Economic and Social Council has elected Iran to serve a four-year term — beginning in 2011 — on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The U.N. calls the Commission “the principal global policy-making body” on women’s rights and claims it is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women”. Yet Iran was elected by acclamation. It was...
3 tags
4 tags
3 tags
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years →
Kottke: David Graeber has been researching the history of money and debt for a book he’s writing. This abbreviated version of his findings makes for really interesting reading.
However tawdry their origins, the creation of new media of exchange — coinage appeared almost simultaneously in Greece, India, and China — appears to have had profound intellectual effects. Some ...
3 tags
4 tags
4 tags
4 tags
1 tag
Charles Simic: Confessions of a Poet Laureate →
Over the years, I had read too many essays by literary critics and even poets, which proclaimed confidently that poetry is universally despised and read by practically no one in United States. I recall my literature students rolling their eyes when I asked them if they liked poetry, or my old high school friends becoming genuinely alarmed upon learning that I still did. Patriotic,...
1 tag
2 tags
3 tags
Water Into Wine: Interview with water steward Mike... →
When Mike Benziger and his family began growing grapes and making wine in 1970s-era Sonoma County, the prevailing agricultural style could be described as “scorched earth.” Agrichemical concoctions fed the vines, killed the pests, and flattened the weeds; plentiful well water provided easy irrigation. But such practices not only kill soil, they also deaden wine. Over time, the...
2 tags
3 tags
2 tags
Trailer: RUSH - BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE →
catbird:
“This documentary presents an intimate portrait of Canadian trio Rush…”
(No girls will reblog this.)
Wrong.
4 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Watchsoxiam:
2009 Continental in Retrospect by RAPHA
01:05 to 01:08 = so beautiful.
It’s all gorgeous.
3 tags
WatchTook a stroll in the forest after spending the morning at the farmer’s market:
Come with me.
“The problem with the tea party movement, besides their almost universal...”
– Bill Maher
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
A New Vision for the 2012 Farm Bill? →
This week, the House Agriculture Committee held the first hearing on the 2012 Farm Bill, the main piece of legislation that every five years establishes our nations food and agriculture policy. The Farm Bill affects farm payments, supplemental nutrition assistance programs (SNAP, formally called food stamps), international trade, conservation programs, the opportunities in rural communities,...
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
4 tags
crashinglybeautiful:
Fact: Van Morrison was...
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
You know what really makes me happy?
Losing followers like flies when I post Twain, or Close, or a TED Talks. Brilliant.
2 tags
2 tags
WatchRudyard Kipling interviews Mark Twain
In 1889, having published six short-story collections in a one-year period, the 23-year-old Rudyard Kipling left India for a tour of America and Europe. His travels brought him to New York and Connecticut, where he hoped to locate and “shake hands with” Mark Twain, the “man I had learned to love and admire fourteen thousand miles...
4 tags
WatchChef Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish
Dan Barber is the chef at New York’s Blue Hill restaurant, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester, where he practices a kind of close-to-the-land cooking married to agriculture and stewardship of the earth. As described on Chez Pim: “Stone Barns is only 45 minutes from Manhattan, but it might as well be a whole different universe. A...
2 tags
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
