It’s a good thing I learned from Craig today that “people are OK”, because it gave me something on which to recenter myself on my walk home from BART.
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”
-Stephen Crane, writer (1871-1900)
This NY Times article has figures that all Americans should know. We’re the richest, stingiest country in the world. Hypocrites.
(Below is the full text. I hope this is fair use.)
An excerpt from this great article on Alternet:
Going to grad school or going to work at an investment bank or a newspaper out of college doesn’t seem like a sacrifice to most of us, but an opportunity. For my friend, who couldn’t hope to earn by working what he had simply in return for existing, it meant giving up a life of nearly unmatchable glamour and excitement. Where I, coming out of college, saw chances everywhere, he saw trade-offs.
The Economist writes:
In an improvement of personal freedoms, China relaxed its marriage rules. People can now wed without permission from their employers and without a medical check.
Record-Breaking Marriages in China:
China is celebrating National Day with an unprecedented number of marriages and record-breaking travel, state media reported Thursday.
More than 2,000 couples tied the knot in the Chinese capital alone on the first day of the week-long holiday, the Beijing Star Daily said.
I mostly read the New York Times because I signed up for their daily headlines by e-mail a couple years ago and it gives me my quota of daily news. I especially like the opinion section; while it is biased, at least it’s intelligent and the contributors often bring insights that I hadn’t. I also read NYTimes.com because they have such a convienent “E-mail this article” button to let me share interesting articles with my friends. Unfortunately, I can’t just dump the articles to my blog here and linked content is only free until the it’s a week or so old. Then you have to buy into their archives.
But it dawned on me today that I could link to articles on AlterNet. And it would do more good since the established media don’t need any help getting heard. AlterNet has articles from independent media. What I read on AlterNet I always wonder why I hadn’t heard that viewpoint anywhere else. Maybe because of the de facto conspiracy of the media conglomerates to support the American plutocracy? Maybe. Regardless, AlterNet’s good reading.
Here are some articles I read recently and was glad for it:
America: Love It but Don’t Leave It
Rethinking Objective Journalism
The Silencing of Dissent on Graduation Day
Reclaiming America
The Invisible Writers
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