Honestly, the news is so incredibly depressing right now that it’s actually hard to face dealing with it. But. Here’s a little visual based on what’s happening in Wisconsin, where the battle lines have been drawn to “cut spending and bolster the business climate. “ (AP) Back to sweatshops everyone! Tweet
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/arts/design/21silk.html?pagewanted=all Mummies are always intriguing to me, a view back into our ancestry, a preservation of our mortality and a glimpse at something left behind. Tweet
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This is an article from Feb. 6. Trying to get my head around all that the action of cutting the words out implies. Article by David Kirkpatrick Photo by Ed Ou for the New York Times Tweet
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Today I was reading about the bike tricks of Danny MacAskill and how his tricks have become so popular on You Tube http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/bike-blog/2011/feb/20/danny-macaskill-bike-tricks Elli Chortara © 2011 Tweet
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French Commentator Convicted for Inciting Racial Bias A French court on Friday convicted the prominent commentator Éric Zemmour on charges of “provocation to racial discrimination” for televised comments in which he suggested that a majority of criminals in France were “black and Arab,” and said that employers “have the right” to deny employment to those [...]
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Most of what I read in The New York Times today discussed “unrest” in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Morocco…. Ironically, a music review in The Arts section talked about a singer, “She’s Young, Restless and a Bit Dreamy,”and a song that included very fitting lyrics to what I read today. “It’s the unrest inside me, [...]
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