July 2011
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“Many pundits view taking a position in the middle of the political spectrum as a...”
– Paul Krugman, “The Centrist Cop-Out”
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“Yet the food industry appears incapable of marketing healthier foods. And...”
– Mark Bittman, Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables
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Thank You for Your Service? →
by Laurence M. Vance, July 19, 2011
Aside from me not thanking that soldier for his service—verbally or otherwise—I immediately thought of four things.
One, what service did this soldier actually render to the United States? If merely drawing a paycheck from the government is rendering service, then we ought to thank every government bureaucrat for his service, including TSA goons. Did this...
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“White-collar crime is a brutal crime. In many cases, more brutal than violent...”
– Sam Antar (Crazy Eddie), former white-collar criminal on Planet Money
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WatchI took a ride along the Willamette…
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A habit we must kick
samadamspdxor:
Equivalent to 444 single-use plastic checkout bags distributed to every Oregonian each year, this is a bad habit we must kick: http://bit.ly/oQs47y
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“School Reform is the American Elite’s preferred response to poverty and...”
– Dr. Mark Naison, “Exposing Education Reform’s Big Lie: It Is Jobs and Political Mobilization, Not Schools, Which Lift People Out of Poverty”
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