I am just getting over a nasty virus. It’s nearly 4 weeks but the virus is still not entirely gone. Apparently, its a stomach virus which has been making its rounds in the area recently. 545 more words
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Early Spring Gardening
Do you get a desire to go out and do something in the garden, even though it is probably too early? I get a little too impatient every spring. 150 more words
Colleen Michaels - poems
1. Ghazal Before Morning (audio by author)
2. Flocking (audio by author)
3. Maggots and Milk (audio by author)
4. An American Laundress Responds to Degas… 945 more words
Fighting recidivism hand to hand
Extremely interesting and heartening report by Jesse Katz in Aeon:
787 more wordsEvery Saturday morning Scott Budnick leaves his 1920s Mediterranean villa on a Hollywood Hills cul-de-sac, with its pool and waterfall and wooded trails, and drives his Tesla north, across the San Fernando Valley, to where the 5 and 210 freeways converge in Sylmar.
Silk Road: libertarian beginnings, ending as a fiefdom run by pirate kings
It’s like businesses in an environment without any government regulation: pure free enterprise and unfetter competition, which quickly leads to monopolies that crush competitors, rake in profits, and ruin the environment. 852 more words
love, love, LOVE !!!!!!!!!!!! =)
Mmm… this was the best. day. ever.
I mean, sure, it could have been better, scuba diving off Palau, for instance, without a flake of snow in sight. 447 more words
Good news for Greece, and how to argue with unreasonable people
Paul Krugman has a couple of good things today. For one, he explains why the 4-month extension is good news for Greece. And for another, he explains… 301 more words
