May 2011
9 posts
The Truth About the American Economy →
Robert Reich to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
Government could have enforced the basic bargain. But it did the opposite. It slashed public goods and investments — whacking school budgets, increasing the cost of public higher education, reducing job training, cutting public transportation and allowing bridges, ports and highways to corrode.
It...
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of...
“To say that men and women should not inject their “personal...”
– Barak Obama, The Audacity of Hope
Coyote Tracks: Facebook, your One Stop Everything →
chipotle:
The idea of “one stop online everything” seemed to have died out—but Facebook is pretty clearly trying to build it back up. The only thing I think they’re missing is direct competition with Amazon as an “online supermall”…
Pretty spot-on. I was just having a conversation with someone about how Facebook is the new everything. It’s the web convergence of: email,...
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the five-ten: It's the end of the world as we know... →
jumpmonger23:
The world supposedly ends on May 21st, 2011. Here in the SF Bay, there are signs on the freeways (even the digital billboards that have a realtime countdown to the date), chatter on the radio waves, and jokes in conversations.
Most people don’t buy it, even people who work at Harold Camping’s Family Radio, the station spreading Judgement Day news and spending heavily on...
WatchRemember that TBS show My Boys, where the boyish chick sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times went to Cubs games and played poker with her gang of guy friends? Well, this is gonna be the opposite of that.
Red Squirrel's Nuts: For a purpose, But also →
redsquirrelsnuts:
I feel extremely fortunate to have already found opportunities to work in piecemeal ways in Chicago. To participate in the progress, even on a micro-scale, toward the purpose for which I was created, is a beautiful experience.
An interesting post that probably rings true for certain software developers. I certainly hope I continue to be a lifelong learner. I definitely...
A Veteran of SEAL Team Six Describes His Training →
We arrived at the pool located at Building 164 and stripped down to our UDT swim shorts. An instructor said, “You are going to love this. Drown-proofing is one of my favorites. Sink or swim, sweet peas.”
I tied my feet together, and my swim partner tied my hands behind my back.
“When I give the command, the bound men will hop into the deep end of the pool,” Instructor Stoneclam said....
