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an article a week keeps stupidity at bay
"Our great-grandparents worked hard so we wouldn’t have to. To strive is to dishonor them."
Nice Work If You Can Avoid It - Joel Stein, Time Magazine, October 2011
hilarious column on Americans’ laziness
"This legislation exempts hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act and protects companies like Halliburton, of which [Dick] Cheney was once the C.E.O., from disclosing what chemicals are going into the ground."
Situation Normal All Fracked Up - Eliza Griswold, New York Times Magazine November 2011
#New York Times Magazine
#Fracking
#natural-gas
#drilling
#dick cheney
#environment
"One OWS protester steps in the wrong place, and she immediately has police roping her off like wayward cattle. But in the skyscrapers above the protests, anything goes."
How I stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Protests - Matt Taibbi, RollingStone November 2011
Insightful look at both sides of the Occupy movement
"Everyone should eat locally. ‘You have to look for anchor and root, and you can’t find that 10,000 miles away from home…People say our system can’t feed the world, but they’re absolutely wrong. Yes, it will take more hands, but we’ve got plenty of them around.’"
This Land Is Your Land - Time Magazine, October 2011
