January 2012
5 posts
Selling a 300-Year-Old Cello - NYTimes.com →
A nice article…insight into a pretty interesting world…
The GOP's Weird Obsession With Poor People Not... →
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism. (via lukehackney)
Ummm…I believe this qualifies as bad.
October 2011
5 posts
Don’t EVEN Get Me Started, Mythical Bootstraps... →
Several of this author’s points are well-made. As I know many of my Tumblr friends agree, we got where we are through hard work PLUS natural advantages which we did nothing to earn (in various proportions, but still…) I am not in favor of many of Occupy Wall Streets’ solutions (some are ridiculously flawed), but I do agree that public policy should address inequality through...
The Obamas Should Campaign as a Couple →
First, the Obamas have a magic about them as a couple to which most people respond positively. If you go to any event where the Obamas are standing next to each other, turn around and look at the crowd and you will see many people — especially women — smiling. Male political operatives often underestimate how much women like to see genuinely happy couples in politics. Political wives are...
September 2011
2 posts
Underfunding WIC? →
The House-passed appropriations bill for fiscal year 2012 contains a large funding cut that would force WIC to turn away more than 700,000 eligible low-income women and young children next year.
The funding bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved earlier this month provides more than the House bill (though less than WIC received last year). If food costs and WIC participation...
“Can we forgive ourselves? The nearest we can come to forgiving ourselves is to...”
– Claire Weekes (via psychotherapy)
July 2011
8 posts
Wired Article: The Collapse of Political Trust →
Interesting - especially since trust and social capital are related
“Words are…our most inexhaustible source of magic”
– Albus P. Dumbledore (via vanishingevocations)
Solar Sister's founder on applying the AVON model... →
“One-year-old start up, Solar Sister is using cosmetics company AVON’s model to distribute solar energy in Uganda, Sudan, and Rwanda. To learn more about the “business in a bag” model that’s giving rural African women an income and a renewable light source, Dowser spoke to Katherine Lucey, Solar Sister’s founder.”
“Now, it would be nice if we could keep every tax break, but we can’t afford...”
– President Obama, in his weekly radio and Internet address. (via thesmithian)
Dan Savage on the Virtues of Infidelity -... →
Interesting profile on the philosophy of Dan Savage, whose This American Life segments I adore.
Silencing Speech With Propaganda - NYTimes.com →
To read…
June 2011
6 posts
The Happiness Project: 7 Tips for Minding My Own... →
Because I am transitioning from being a consultant, where people care about my opinion, to a grad student, where people care about my opinion far less, I am bookmarking this list. :)
May 2011
6 posts
this is an AT&T advertising campaign that was...
untzuntzbaby:
senoritabadass:
AUSTRALIA
BAHAMAS
BRAZIL
CANADA
CHINA (#1)
CHINA (#2)
COSTA RICA
EGYPT
ENGLAND
FRANCE
INDIA
ITALY
JAPAN (#1)
JAPAN (#2)
MEXICO (#1)
MEXICO (#2)
MOROCCO
NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
PARAGUAY
RUSSIA
SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED KINGDOM
Freaking brilliant.
Wow!
9 (short) Stories to read this summer
Although there is only one Nine Stories, Ashley my literature consultant has developed the following short stories list for me to supplement my 5 books list.
* Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville
* Hills Like White Elephants - Hemmingway/ Black Man & White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat - Russell Banks (counted as one for reasons of style and topic - plus they are super-short)
* The...
5 books to read this summer (follow up!)
So, Ashley and I have conferred, and the second book shall be David Copperfield, both for its classic awesomeness and because, according to my History of Philanthropy in the West professor, Dickens was among the first popular western authors to write about the poor as fully developed persons. Yay!
“In times of difficulty, you may feel that your problems will go on and on, but...”
– Dr. Robert Schuller (pulled from the tumblr of abbyjean)
5 books to read this summer
Should I probably read more than 5? Yes. Is it realistic? No. I am allowing myself 2 totally fun books and 3 books that are nerdily fun :)
Nerdily fun:
Triumph of the City - Edward Glaeser
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
TBD - something with network/complexity theory
Totally fun:
Rotter’s Club (since I have been “borrowing” it from Ashley for like...
April 2011
8 posts
A Closer Look at What Got Chopped in This Year’s... →
Shani O. Hilton at Colorlines
There’s been a lot of talk about the overall number for cuts: $38.5 billion overall and $14.7 billion to discretionary spending, which includes funding for social programs. But what’s inside these numbers? Here are a few of the larger cuts that are guaranteed to affect poor people and people of color (compared to 2010 funding levels):
Department of Labor...
1 tag
March 2011
7 posts
Dear People Buying Toms Shoes →
misanthropologie:
tumbledore:
Why not buy a pair of SAWA shoes instead? The shoes are made in Cameroon, with all the materials coming from African countries — laces from Tunisia, rubber from Egypt, bags from Nigeria, and leather from Morocco. All buying Toms Shoes does is destroy local economies for the sake of making you think you’re helping the world by consuming more crap manufactured in...
Robert Reich: The Principles of the People's Party →
Super-interesting…
robertreich:
The following was sent to me by someone in Madison, Wisconsin, who found it in the Capitol building last week. It was obviously written in a hurry, and it carries the label “first draft.”
It’s emerging from the heartland – from Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa — and it is…