February 2010
25 posts
Bribes Let Kraft Sell Tainted Food →
Robert Watson, a top ingredient buyer for Kraft Foods, needed $20,000 to pay his taxes. So he called a broker for a California tomato processor that for years had been paying him bribes to get its…
The People We Pay to Look Over Our Shoulders →
Article about those who spy on Americans “For our own protection” and those who watch the watchers.
sun & sand
wet grains of crumbling sand fall down the towel shelter
and land on my child cheek
like a slow motion rock slide.
sun squints down into the shelter keeping my brown cheek warm,
as the salt dries in my hair.
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them... →
Boing Boing covers a matter that should be important to everyone. But like most civil liberty issues the people and our rights are being bulldozed under ground. Haven’t you all read 1984? If the parties involved in this, who knew it was going on, who installed the spyware on the machines, who monitored and so on don’t lose their jobs and go to jail for this I am home schooling any...
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– The Dalai Lama
-Hard to deny this wisdom. It’s good to know the man in orange and I have something in common.
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength”
– Eric Hoffer
“How we treat the dead says an awful lot about how we live. For the strong and...”
– Paul Gregory Alms (On being a Pallbearer)
“His gaze is from the passing of bars
so exhausted, that it doesn’t hold...”
– The Panther - In the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Yay democracy! I can't wait to vote for Fox News...
Humans representing humans and democratic self-governance are so old fashioned. Today, non-human business entities created by investors have free speech rights too, thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision. Several justices of the court’s 5-4 majority who wrote that opinion were appointed by George W. Bush, who received fewer popular votes in 2000 than did his opponent and whose Florida...
I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn’t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time… For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars… And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street… Or my grandmother’s hands, and the way...
My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian Left: 4.75, Libertarian: 5.15 Political Spectrum Quiz