When you see two people kissing, does it touch you in your soul? Does it give you any feeling at all? Does it really, really touch you? Do you fail to notice? Does it lack that spark?
When you’re gay, every positive image of two gay people in love means something. Every image touches you […]
Archive for July, 2006
Stopping Sprawl
Posted in America America, Go. Now. on Jul 27th, 2006
Going green is the latest craze in American (see the Time Newsweek magazine cover), so in that spirit, here are two great links for reading.
First, “NYC is the Greenest City in America,” by David Owen. Makes some really great points about New York City including walkability, creation of community environments, and so on.
Second is […]
Listen to an NPR bit about the singularity.
How to avoid foreclosure
Posted in Go. Now. on Jul 26th, 2006
When I worked as a debt collector for Saab Financial Services, I was always amazed at how people could just ignore their debt problems and, concurrently, act like I was being unreasonable by asking them to pay a bill that was grossly overdue. I have been, and continue to deal with low cashflow issues, so […]
Democratic party soundbite!
Posted in Politics on Jul 26th, 2006
The “As Ohio Goes” blog recommends a perfect soundbite for the Democratic Party, which should be repeated on a daily basis by every member of the party until the election:
“Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this […]
Publish freedom messages
Posted in Politics on Jul 25th, 2006
Here’s an Amnesty International site called irrepressible.info which has a javascript you can post on your site that delivers a random quote of text that has been represed by the media or government somewhere in the world. Here’s an example:
var irr_lang = ‘en’;
This is a beautiful article, and so damn true. In a look at this tired old adage, the “Chief Happiness Officer” looks at how this mentality is bad for your company, and your employees. It’s something everyone in corporate America should read.
