Posted in seeker, tagged Obama on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Obama on Edwards dropping out: here. It’s less than two minutes long, and it hits all the right notes. Now, whether Obama can become a better president than his career suggests, I don’t know. And whether he’s got a chance against the Clinton Machine, I don’t know either.
Posted in seeker, tagged happiness on January 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
From Researchers Find That Middle-Aged Misery Spans the Globe:
For the average person in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year. Only in their 50s do most people emerge from the low period. But encouragingly, by the time you are 70, if you are [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged election, gender, race on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In a discussion about feminism today, pompe, who lives in Sweden, wrote:
A migrant-descended Swede woman argued that the reason why we (here) focus a lot on ethnicity (and I suppose that’d be what goes for “race” in your country) instead of class is that class issues we actually _can_ do something about. Ethnicity is a [...]
Posted in seeker on January 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
First I didn’t like them because their model of religion is silly. Jesus didn’t say anything about pretentious costumes and titles. (Yes, that applies to most forms of Christianity, but the Salvation Army’s embrace of military fashion seems especially at odds with faith.)
Then I cut them slack because I learned they were one of the [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged race on January 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Because it’s getting harder and harder to maintain the claim that the US’s greatest problem is racism. This is South Carolina, state of my birth and birthplace of the Confederacy. Yes, Edwards did well with white men like me, but his butt was kicked by people who prefer a physical embodiment of change with a [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged save the world on January 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Median price of existing single-family home in U.S. drops…For the first time in at least 40 years — and possibly since the Depression.
Today’s advice for preparing for reality:
Treehugger has a good list of articles: “get recession-ready”.
Get vaccinated. From Why Don’t Adults Get Vaccinated?:
…the flu shot is the only recommended adult vaccine that most Americans could [...]
Posted in seeker on January 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corn.
Posted in seeker, tagged climate change, save the world, water on January 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It’s not short, but if you care about the American West, global warming, or water, read the National Geographic article, drying of the west. It could as easily be called the dying of the west.
Posted in seeker on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Watch a very short video:
And if you want to help them out more, rate it to help it rise in youtube’s ranks.
Or sign the American Friends petition to defund the war and refund human needs.
Or help the United Farm Workers by signing a petition, demanding that California enforce safety laws and end the needless deaths [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged gender, race on January 23, 2008 | 23 Comments »
People who focus on race in the USA think these figures from the US Census are most important:
Poverty rates in 2006
Non-Hispanic Whites: 8.2 percent
Blacks: [...]
