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Local farmers, local food
My first box of produce from Glacier Valley Farm CSA is cause to celebrate — not just good food, but also the connection that comes from supporting local farmers. Thank you, farmers of Mat-Su. Continue reading
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-27: Community supported agriculture
Most of today’s tweets were about the great box of produce I picked up today from Glacier Valley Farm CSA.
Money as "free speech": Colbert, Maddow, & me
Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED — & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations.
Posted in Polis
Tagged Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, Daughter Number Three (blog), democracy, Democratic Party, free speech, good government bad government, health care reform, political parties, psychopathy, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party, The Colbert Report (TV), U.S. Supreme Court
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22
Government by psychopathy: corporate money=corporate “free speech” for fake “persons” http://bit.ly/8u2zcX #SCOTUS #SCOTUSfail # Millions against Monsanto — one of the corporate psychopaths I wrote about last night. http://bit.ly/66SjSB (h/t Lee Smith) #fb #
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Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons
Sign the Motion to Amend: part of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy’s campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood. It’s time to take democracy back.
Government by psychopathy
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had granted the fake-persons known as corporations vast new powers of “free speech” by which to further corrupt American democracy.
Posted in Polis
Tagged Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API), Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, diabetes, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, free speech, GMO (genetically modified organisms & foods), good government bad government, Haiti, Jim Gottstein, Joel Bakan, Monsanto, natural disasters, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychopathy, Shaun of the Dead (movie), The Corporation (book and film), U.S. Supreme Court, zombies, Zyprexa
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty … Continue reading
Actually, I kinda like clouds…
Clouds are actually really beautiful, when I’m not feeling grey. A little about the aha! experience of 1984, when I permanently came out of my former self-hatred.
Posted in depression
Tagged aha, Book of Job, Caprica (TV), clouds, giving up self-hate, grey, poem excerpt, Sylvia, Voice from the Whirlwind
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Pausing under the clouds: A how-to guide for getting out of the grey
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired: some of the things to be mindful about when life starts looking like shit. Again.
Shark (a story for Haiti)
“Shark” is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.