January 2012
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“In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They...”
– OR, they (Christian groups anyway) can follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, and focus on serving “the least among you,” as Jesus put it, regardless of their origin, and avoid both of those problems.
Believe it or not, some congregations do this. But in order to do so, to do as Christ...
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Submit a quote. →
Submit something timeless in its acknowledgement of the human condition.
Or something irrelevant to it.
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gingerhaze:
You know, I always assumed that those cartoon mascots who were hardcore addicted to breakfast cereal were just overreacting.
I mean, how addictive can sugary breakfast cereal be, anyway?
But I’ve had like six bowls of Honeycombs this morning and I can’t seem to stop and I’m starting to think that those commercials were just public service announcements about the addictive nature...
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“Crime has not fallen in the United States—it’s been shifted. Just as Wall Street...”
– n 1: Raise the Crime Rate (via ronmarks)
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Yes, you can make money without exploiting the... →
I was (briefly) a guest on a BBC World Service radio program this morning discussing Obama’s state of the union speech and income inequality in general. To my mind, this has always been a no-brainer. My argument is: we’ve done this experiment (of lowering taxes on the rich) twice now, once in the 1920’s and again in the 1980’s (and doubled-down in 2000). We have also done the control experiment....
“Life itself is a constant battle against entropy.”
– Shallow Sage (via sagequotes)
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"When Facts Aren’t Facts" →
azspot:
The criterion, according to Politifact, seems to be that a fact isn’t a fact if it helps a Democratic narrative.
Jared Bernstein watches the train wreck. Obama said:
In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.
which is just true. Period.
But Politifact rated it as only “half...
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“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The...”
– Abraham Heschel (via azspot)
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via aisforayla)
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The Sacrificial Caste →
parkstepp:
In this and other nations, there are groups of children who can be abused with impunity.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th January 2012
Texas is a largely-Christian state that appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week the Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children(1). Police now patrol the schools, arresting...
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“…And I come by here to say that America, too, is going to Hell, if we don’t use...”
– Martin Luther King
Memphis, March 18, 1968
(via corporationsarepeople)
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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is...”
– ‘A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart’, Strength To Love (1963, 1981), 15. — Martin Luther King, Jr. (via cwnl)
Why marriage equality and not civil unions?
dagseoul:
Glad you asked because it’s super simple to put my answer into one sentence:
Separate but equal is for white supremacists and homophobes.
Any other questions?
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes it,...
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To Build Community, an Economy of Gifts →
Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” What happened to community, and why don’t we have it any more? There are many reasons—the layout of suburbia, the disappearance of public space, the automobile and the television, the high mobility of people and jobs—and, if you trace the “whys” a...
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