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Popcorn clouds flickr set (april cakes) via Chuck Was Here

Popcorn clouds flickr set (april cakes) via Chuck Was Here




… the problem is a Congress dependent upon the fundraisers. The problem is not corporate speech. The problem is the fundraising Congress.



If You Want Change, You Have to Change Congress. Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress and Move to Amend  - via 3quarksdaily



Detroit - The Feral Table - a Flickr Set.

Detroit - The Feral Table - a Flickr Set.






“If you want change, you have to change Congress.”

This is audacity. A must read from Lawrence Lessig.





The more I understand hope, the more I realize that all along it deserved to be in the box with the plagues, sorrow, and mischief; that it serves the needs of those in power as surely as belief in a distant heaven; that hope is really nothing more than a secular way of keeping us in line.


False hopes bind us to unlivable situations, and blind us to real possibilities


Such was the old custom: after a certain number of generations, in order that the memory of the past did not dissipate in the mist, a new arrival into this world was given the name of an ancestor, as though marking him as a link in a chain that future generations could use to peer back at the past.

The Safekeeping of Names | Orion Magazine

A shaman searches the shore for the raw materials of his great work.




brain harvest = Bad Ass Speculative Fiction - it’s short.




Bid on this grand Banshee Pick. It’s got a great story behind it.