Happiness is not good enough. Don’t rest on happiness. I mean it’s okay and I hope you are all happy, but we got to do more than that. Toni MorrisonJust one of many thought-provoking statements by Morrison in a 2010 conversation with Angela Davis on libraries, literacy, and liberation (and so much more) The discussion …
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Obamacare and Job Projections: Congressional Budget Office Clarifies
..at least as much as the CBO can clarify, in a Q&A. Paul Krugman quotes the most important passage: Q: Will 2.5 Million People Lose Their Jobs in 2024 Because of the ACA?A: No, we would not describe our estimates in that way. As others have pointed out, too, the reduced number of full-time workers …
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela (via andrewgibby)
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right, then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.” Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
richnacin: Concrete ideas…
There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the morning; it is as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. The first minute of the workday reminds you of all the other minutes that a day consists of, and it’s never a good thing to think of minutes as individuals. …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 