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Brandi Carlile
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March 2013
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February 2013
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thenewinquiry.com →
thenewinquiry.com
Don’t get me started
January 2013
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December 2012
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Robert Reich: Cliff Notes on the Three Real Perils Ahead →
robertreich.org
The “fiscal cliff” is a a metaphor for a government that no longer responds to the biggest challenges we face because it’s paralyzed by intransigent Republicans, obsessed by the federal budget deficit, and overwhelmed by big money from corporations, Wall Street, and billionaires.
If we had a…
November 2012
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“I’ve been planning a gay stoner slut party for a few years now, and now I’m pleased to finally extend an invitation!”
—My Election Day - Esquire (via annfriedman)
America's voting system is a disgrace →
cnn.com
When the polls close in most other democracies, the results are known almost instantly. Ballots are usually counted accurately and rapidly, and nobody disputes the result. Complaints of voter fraud are rare; complaints of voter suppression are rarer still.
The kind of battle we are seeing in Florida — where Democrats and Republicans will go to court over whether early voting should span 14 days or eight — simply does not happen in Germany, Canada, Britain or France. The ballot uncertainty that convulsed the nation after Florida’s vote in 2000 could not happen in Mexico or Brazil.
Almost everywhere else, elections are run by impartial voting agencies. In France, elections are the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior, which establishes places and hours of voting, prints ballots (France still uses paper) and counts the votes. In Germany, an independent federal returning officer oversees a complex state and federal voting system. In Canada, federal elections are managed by a specialized agency, Elections Canada. Mexico, emerging from a sad history of electoral manipulation, created in the 1990s a respected independent agency, the Federal Electoral Institute. Brazil has nationwide electronic voting, producing instantaneous, uncontested results.
“My prayer this morning is this: that we all exercise our right and responsibility to vote today, that we honor the memory of those who came and struggled before us, and that we raise up our voices and visions to repair a world that we have broken. Moving forward, I also pray that we will ask not merely “What would Jesus do?” but more importantly: “What will we do?” How will we feed the hungry, and house the homeless, and clothe the naked, and heal the sick and suffering? How will we love and honor our neighbors? So long as the meek still inhabit the earth, it is our moral duty to tend to them. This will be our inheritance.”
— Timothy Patrick McCarthy in The Nation
“The sewers are clogged with the greed of powerful men.”
—Roger Waters
October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.”
—Ellen Willis (via annfriedman)
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