Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Responsible Shopper
…links consumers to information about corporations.
…gives people the information they need to vote with their dollars when they shop – and to email companies to tell them to clean up their acts.
I thought some of their comments were a bit cautious, but given big business’s love of litigation, they probably have to be cautious. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | 5 Comments »
A friend wrote:
a friend of mind and fellow writer has breast cancer and a bunch of people have put together an ebay auction to help her out with her expenses. I’m donating a bunch of my handmade jewelry and have posted about it at Inkblog (here) as well as on LA Noir (here) and am [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged wealth on April 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A friend emailed the link to Whites Take Flight on Election Day. It has interesting conclusions, like, “white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black…” But, as usual with articles about race, it ignores class.
America’s rags-to-riches dream an illusion: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | 6 Comments »
From Wired (2/13/6): The Secret Cause of Flame Wars. The gist: You don’t write as clearly as you think. This doesn’t mean you don’t write well. You may write beautifully and still have people infer what you did not mean to imply. I don’t write beautifully, and I’ve been told by readers who are able [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
My thanks to Laurie for noting that the previous quote about novels has more company at Tom Standage’s The Culture War. The other quotations build very nicely to the modern day, so I’m repeating them here:
Dance: “The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced … at the English Court on Friday last … [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2006 | 5 Comments »
“The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
There’s a one-man show that should be written. I would do it, but I don’t know when, so I toss it out for someone else. It’s Kipling as an old man, the man who knows he helped kill his son in World War I, the man who has finally learned that empire-builders are mad, the [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged taxes, wealth on April 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The following is almost the full text of Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy Expose Stealth Campaign of Super-Wealthy to Repeal Federal Estate Tax. I tried to edit it down, but could only delete the introductory paragraph.
18 families worth a total of $185.5 billion have financed and coordinated a 10-year effort to repeal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2006 | No Comments »
Patrick Nielsen Hayden explains a bit more about publishing in a comment at P&Ls and how books make (or don’t) money: part the first: the mass market original complete failure. Imagine it drawn by Harvey Kurtzman. Also, read Casacorona’s follow-up in the thread.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Emma and I taught at the Pima Writers’ Workshop a few years ago and thought it was great. This year’s teachers include Rachel Manija Brown, a friend from L.A. who wrote a funny and insightful memoir, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost. It’s an excellent reason to be in Tucson at the end of [...]
