September 2009
“We are all fighting to make the streets safe for something other than driving...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Bicyclists vs. Pedestrians - An Armistice - NYTimes.com
Taken by trees - my boys
Watchlose/lose on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
The dead must be remembered, but the living are the monument, the living who coexist in peace in ordinary times and who save one another in extraordinary times. Civil society triumphed that morning in full glory. Look at it: remember that this is who we were and can be.
Rebecca Solnit
“Today, immodesty is as ubiquitous as advertising, and for the same reasons. To...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - High-Five Nation - NYTimes.com
“Research company Mindlab International were commissioned by Rocky, a chocolate...”
– Crumbs: half of Britons injured by their biscuits on coffee break, survey reveals - Telegraph
The White House - Press Office - Remarks by the... →
Obama’s comments on the state of journalism…
Michael Langan’s Skoda Tango →
Also see: http://langanfilms.com/doxology.html
Fire Lookout Towers →
(a primer)
“It is rare, indeed, to have parents outraged— Â outraged I tell...”
– The Stay-In-School Conspiracy Theory (via feedly)
“The evidence for the VA model is compelling. As someone with expensive individual health insurance, I would appreciate the opportunity to buy into the VA system. That would be my choice of a public option. The VA provides better results with higher patient satisfaction and lower costs. Further, it has all the features that we like in a single-payer plan: doctors on salary with no financial...
Wordsworth
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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through...
