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I’ve been entering my essays and miscellaneous writings into my writings blog<\/a>. This is prompting me to think how I can do things here as well-should I pick a topic for each post? Would anyone read it? Should I move all of my web stuff off of a “personal” site? I’ll get more eyeballs that way…Like it matters.<\/p>\n

Don’t know.<\/p>\n

OK, so here’s the infamous recap to jog my memory when I’m 80. My dad is that side of 80, and his memory is going. Gamelan practice with the choir. Went well. S went to another birthday party Sat., we went shopping and to the library afterwards. Erika’s working on an auction thing. Church Sun-home, cleaning-didn’t get much done, but did get bedclothes washed. The Saturn got stolen Mon., I was very upset. I talked to the insurance guy yesterday & we can get a rental car. Maybe Friday. I have things I need to do. I should make a list.
\nMore stuff-good shows with the choir, but a lot of work. Didn’t get the car back and the insurance covered it. M didn’t get into PWHS. Meeting with North Clackamas to get M assessed. His project went well. He read all of Roots. Caught a cold last week-now everyone has it. Went through my stuff-trimmed a little bit-not much to trim after 2 moves with major trimming. There are some things I wish I hadn’t given away. Working hard to keep the house tidy. Spring is here.
\nAnd now it’s a month later, and no post. Usual stuff-Erika has tummy troubles, May Faire-C did the maypole thing, spring break, we got a new dryer, spent a bunch of $$$ fixing the car, conflicts, S has lost some teeth, have I said that one of our cats died? We found my car in the next complex, but the insurance already went through. M’s going to Clackamas Middle College, and he’s going to get special ed-he shouldn’t need much, but it’s nice to have. I’ve been working on the train both ways-I get more done that way. More conflicts. Sometimes it’s like nothing is right, so what’s the point in trying? Setup for play. S is riding her bike w\/o training wheels. Trimmed my books down to 1 box-going to try again with my storage bin. C had a sleepover for his birthday. Mother’s day. More conflict and dread. Drive to ballet, visit Powell’s. Church & work party Sunday-M’s last OWL session. We subscribed to Hulu and they have Time Tunnel! One of my faves from my childhood. Archer is a new guilty pleasure, even though it’s been going for 5 years… WFH Friday, hang out with wife. Church, binge-watch Archer. More Dr’s for E.
\nLast days of school-assembly, first grade crossing, meeting. Gamelan show, new computer, 8th grade farewell party, father’s day. We’re trying to get C to sleep in his room and S to sleep on the floor.<\/p>\n

Finished the biodynamics book-really very good. Back onto John. I think I might make an infographic of the cosmology. Reading a few other books too.<\/p>\n

Here are the links:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Kolbert: Humans Are Causing Largest Die-Off Since Dinosaur Age | Alternet<\/a>, Political Economist Answers: What’s So Dangerous About Austerity?<\/a>, Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism<\/a>, D.C. Insider: There’s a Shadow Govt. Running the Country, and It’s Not Up for Re-Election | Alternet<\/a>, Privacy as the New Free-Trade Zone of Corporate Exploitation<\/a>, Henry Giroux on Resisting the Neoliberal Revolution<\/a>, Dwindling Christian Right Turns Into Cornered Animal, Lashes Out at Civil Rights and Democracy | Alternet<\/a>, The Poisons of Extreme Wealth and Inequality<\/a>, Why The New American Workforce Wants Better Consumption, Not Just More | Co.Exist | ideas + impact<\/a>, Nothing Left: The long, slow surrender of American liberals — Adolph Reed Jr. in Harper’s – Google Groups<\/a>, The Ocean Is Coming | Perspectives, Take Action | BillMoyers.com<\/a>, The American Right Wing Is In A Death Spiral Of Denial And Racism – Liberals Unite | Liberals Unite<\/a>, Mardi Gras, Sodomy, & Us: the sodomites among us – tend to be us.<\/a>, Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country | Politics News | Rolling Stone<\/a>, Welfare-haters, your lack of insight and compassion make you ugly<\/a>, By the Way, Your Home Is On Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis | Alternet<\/a>, Four Frightening Ways Progressive Gains Are Being Stolen From Us<\/a>, Call It What It Is: Energy of Mass Extinction<\/a>, How Economic Inequality Kills | Alternet<\/a>, Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com<\/a>, Conservative Myths About the Minimum Wage, Debunked | Alternet<\/a>, Why Income Inequality Is Going to Get Catastrophically Worse | Alternet<\/a>, 10 Shameful Ways America Abuses Its Own Citizens | Alternet<\/a>, World Food Clock<\/a>, The New Populist Movement: Organizing to Take Back America. | Roger Hickey<\/a>, What’s Really Tearing America Apart | Alternet<\/a>, Of Budgets, Values and Visions<\/a>, If This Terrifying Report Doesn’t Wake You Up to the Realities of What We’re Doing to This Planet, What Will? | Mother Jones<\/a>, Noam Chomsky | The Prospects for Survival<\/a>, Noam Chomsky | Security and State Power<\/a>, United States Is Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading to Poor, UN Report Charges | Alternet<\/a>, 18 Charts that Illustrate America’s Insane Class System from Birth till Death | Alternet<\/a>, Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism<\/a>, Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It<\/a>, Robert Reich: How Increasing Numbers of Americans are Saying ‘No Deal’ to Absurd Inequality | Alternet<\/a>, The Perp in the Greatest Mass Extinction on Earth? Methane<\/a>, The Fight Against Being Commodified Must Never Stop: We Are Not Brands, We Are Humans With Souls<\/a>, Noam Chomsky: Ecology, Ethics, Anarchism | Alternet<\/a>, Solar System Builder | National Geographic Channel<\/a>, The Changing Language of the New Paradigm – Digging for Truth<\/a>, Neoliberalism and the Machinery of Disposability<\/a>, Global Rankings Study Depicts an America in Warp Speed Decline | Alternet<\/a>, How the Corporate Takeover of Society Is Leaving Us Feeling Empty Inside | Alternet<\/a>, American Democracy No Longer Works<\/a>, Let Them Eat McMansions! The 1% and the New-Fashioned American Excess | Alternet<\/a>, Why We\u2019re in a New Gilded Age by Paul Krugman | The New York Review of Books<\/a>, How the World’s Only Superpower Is Vulnerable to Catastrophe | Alternet<\/a>, US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study | Common Dreams<\/a>, Reaganomics killed America\u2019s middle class – Salon.com<\/a>, The Corruption of Mainstream Media<\/a>, Chris Hedges: The Rhetoric of Violence – Chris Hedges – Truthdig<\/a>, Thomas Piketty Undermines the Hallowed Tenets of the Capitalist Catechism | Common Dreams<\/a>, Fighting for a Legitimate Democracy, By and For the People<\/a>, Earth: Game Over?<\/a>, America Is Declining at the Same Warp Speed That’s Minting Billionaires and Destroying the Middle Class | Alternet<\/a>, Chris Hedges: We’re Losing the Last Shreds of Legal Rights to Protect Ourselves from Oligarchy | Alternet<\/a>, Chris Hedges | The Power of Imagination<\/a>, Henry A. Giroux | Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Turbulent Times<\/a>, Study Confirms US Is Ruled by Rich, Corporate News Ignores It<\/a>, America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking<\/a>, Robert Reich: The Practical Choice: Not American Capitalism or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWelfare State Socialism\u2019 – Truthdig<\/a>, The Powerful Forces Shredding Our Constitution: Preface to “The Rise of the American Corporate Security State”<\/a>, What Is The New Populism?<\/a>, Krugman: How American Capitalism Fails\u2019and Northern European ‘Socialism’ Succeeds\u2019at Job Creation | Alternet<\/a>, 5 Signs that America Has Gone Bonkers\u2019and a Glimmer of Hope | Alternet<\/a>, Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West<\/a>, A National Call to Link Arms for Democracy<\/a>, The Age of Climate Warfare Is Here and the Military Industrial Complex Is Gearing Up For It | Alternet<\/a>, Toward the Total Paralysis of an Unequal Society<\/a>, Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”<\/a>, We All Must Become Zapatistas<\/a>, Can You Imagine a Future That Isn’t “Disposable”?<\/a>, Robert Reich: Inequality is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time | Alternet<\/a>, On Staying Sane in a Suicidal Culture<\/a>, Why Economists Worry About Population Growth<\/a>, If You’re Born Poor, You’ll Probably Stay That Way | Mother Jones<\/a>, When we stop children taking risks, do we stunt their emotional growth? – Features – Health & Families – The Independent<\/a>, William Rivers Pitt | “Men’s Rights” and the Septic Tank of History<\/a>, How All of Us Are Helping Build a Participatory Totalitarianism | Alternet<\/a>, The Results Are In: America Is Dumb and on the Road to Getting Dumber | Alternet<\/a>, Paul Krugman on the Surprising Reason Limiting Carbon Emissions Makes Conservatives so Angry | Alternet<\/a>, Fortress America: The Glorification of the Average Soldier, and the Theft of Our Privacy | Alternet<\/a>, Political Polarization Hits New Extremes as Republicans Move to Far Right | Alternet<\/a>, Why Noam Chomsky Is Such an Effective Thorn in the Side of the Corporate State | Alternet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been entering my essays and miscellaneous writings into my writings blog. This is prompting me to think how I can do things here as well-should I pick a topic for each post? Would anyone read it? Should I move all of my web stuff off of a “personal” site? I’ll get more eyeballs that … <\/p>\n

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