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Aug. 10th, 2010 10:36 pm
My brother-in-law painted this mural. You have GOT to read why it's gone. (Apparently that's also what happened to the awesome mural that used to be across the street, too. Ugh.)
On bedbugs. I have to say, bedbugs fascinate me. I mean, I loathe them (it seems we're not a rid of them as I'd thought this winter... damn it), but I have a deep admiration for anything you can't kill off. They'll even outlast humans, if only for 18 months! As a species, they're like this tree I saw with my nieces. It'd been chopped down, and then dragged up by the roots, and still there were new green shoots coming out of it, reaching for the light. Except that trees don't bite you, of course. And they make air, so on the whole I like that tree more. But the POINT is that bedbugs are survivors. You can hate them for it, but it's better to hate them because they're parasites and respect the fact that they're better at living than you are at killing them. Less madness in that.
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On the difficulty of summing up a generation with a few pithy catchphrases
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A School District That Takes the Isolation Out of Autism
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A must-read on poverty and nutrition
On prison food in Alcatraz.
On the famed "death of a phone call"
On lobbying to - this is great - prevent the government from making it easier to file taxes!
On how some activist claims dubiously that outlawing gay marriage will improve the economy. Or some such nonsense.
On... on... oh, I can't sum this up. Read it.
VERY IMPORTANT! Drowning doesn't look "like drowning
Whew! All done now!
On bedbugs. I have to say, bedbugs fascinate me. I mean, I loathe them (it seems we're not a rid of them as I'd thought this winter... damn it), but I have a deep admiration for anything you can't kill off. They'll even outlast humans, if only for 18 months! As a species, they're like this tree I saw with my nieces. It'd been chopped down, and then dragged up by the roots, and still there were new green shoots coming out of it, reaching for the light. Except that trees don't bite you, of course. And they make air, so on the whole I like that tree more. But the POINT is that bedbugs are survivors. You can hate them for it, but it's better to hate them because they're parasites and respect the fact that they're better at living than you are at killing them. Less madness in that.
( Read more... )
On the difficulty of summing up a generation with a few pithy catchphrases
( Read more... )
A School District That Takes the Isolation Out of Autism
( Read more... )
A must-read on poverty and nutrition
On prison food in Alcatraz.
On the famed "death of a phone call"
On lobbying to - this is great - prevent the government from making it easier to file taxes!
On how some activist claims dubiously that outlawing gay marriage will improve the economy. Or some such nonsense.
On... on... oh, I can't sum this up. Read it.
VERY IMPORTANT! Drowning doesn't look "like drowning
Whew! All done now!
