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Peg Tittle
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Aug 22 2025
“… and when they notice the screams …”
“And we keep making these choices, every day, choosing dams over salmon, oil over whales, cars over polar bears, death over life. And when I say we keep making these choices, I do not mean you and me — we have essentially nothing to do with it — I mean the politicians and CEOs who …
Aug 21 2025
from Pain and Prejudice: What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It, Karen Messing
First, note that the title really should be “…from the Women Who Do It” Chap 2 “The Invisible World of Cleaning” – very enlightening for those who’ve never had a cleaning job, including about the idiocy of those in management positions “… the village where the women’s backs were all bent because their brooms were …
Aug 18 2025
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke: “If Canada can’t get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences … We won’t sit back while our air becomes a health hazard.” So says Rep. Calvin Callahan from Wisconsin and others from Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Dakota who filed a formal complaint. Against Canada. Excuse me? EXCUSE …
Aug 16 2025
from The Hunger of the Wolf, Stephen Marche
“Capitalism can be good, proper, brutal fun, the biggest schoolyard game in the world.” Indeed. Schoolyard. “What do you think she would be like in bed?” “I’ve nevr met her.” “How would that matter?” So telling.
Aug 15 2025
from “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich
from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news “The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.” Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
Aug 05 2025
John Kerry on Trump (on Bill Maher)
“Trump responds more to his Twitter ‘likes’ than his briefing books and the Constitution of the United States.” (And that was about his first term.) “He has the maturity of an 8-year-old boy and the insecurity of a teenage girl.”
Aug 04 2025
a few bits from John Scalzi’s Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
(a collection of pieces from his “Whatever” website at https://whatever.scalzi.com/) “They don’t really advertise that they kill people,” said marine reservist Stephen Funk, about why he refused to report for active duty. “I didn’t really realize the full implications of what I was doing.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/2/03 responding to that, Scalzi says “You have to …
Aug 03 2025
Mania, Lionel Shriver – VERY HIGH RECOMMENDED
This is a brilliant novel. And not at all an exaggerated prediction for a near-future. The whole Mental Parity thing (no one is smarter than anyone else) is in line with the whole trans thing (sex is a social construct, not a biological reality; I’m female if I think I am), faith-based science, postmodernism (there …
Jul 31 2025
from New Model Army, Adam Roberts
“… none of the so-called democracies in the world today are properly democratic. They are, rather, rigid hierarchies, whose oligarchs consent, every few years, to punctuate their routine with a single mass reality-TV-show-style plebiscite. That’s not what democracy means.” p3 or, said better, in my opinion, “We don’t have democracy, in the world of politics …
Jul 29 2025
These fires brought to you by …
Watching the weather network, with the ads: the fires in Turkey brought to you by Mitsubishi’s new crossover SUV, the Outlander. Literally brought to you by. It’s exactly like an ad for guns showing right after news of a school shooting. See the problem? How can they, the people behind the weather network, can be …
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