Open Thread - 29 Sep 2022: Some Good Stuff - World Beyond War!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 2:03am
Some Good Stuff - World Beyond War!
Late last month I got an email from an anti-war group that interests me: World Beyond War.
Diaries
Working Class Elephant Heroes
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 5:14pmYou can never be certain what will go viral, and why. It can surprise you.
need more heartwarming stories like this https://t.co/c6FEM38rxf
The Evening Blues - 9-28-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 3:08pm
Haiti's collapse appears to be by design
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 12:01pmMany nations are hit by a periodic crises that tests the strength of their institutions.
Haiti is being struck by THREE crisis at once, at the same time that virtually all of their institutions have failed.
Open Thread WE 28 SEP 22
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 6:54am~
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
The Evening Blues - 9-27-22
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 09/27/2022 - 3:38pm
A call for inertia in Los Angeles
Submitted by fire with fire on Tue, 09/27/2022 - 12:26pmThis email came in this morning, demonstrating more eloquently than I could why I am not a voter:
TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE LOS ANGELES
The Los Angeles primary this June was a disaster for common sense. Make no bones about it. Sure, more people voted because of a date change in the election, but by and large, common sense voters stayed home.
Hillary Clinton and the Phoniness of Identity Politics
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/27/2022 - 11:15amGiorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister, and Hillary Clinton thinks that this a good thing for women.
Finally some playtime
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 09/27/2022 - 6:00am
Going on a road trip this morning (Tuesday) to Belknap Hot Springs east of Eugene, Oregon.
The resort has been open to the public since 1874 but archeologists have found evidence of Native American use for 8000 years.
Is the carbon tax thing dead yet?
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 09/26/2022 - 3:46pmLast I recall, the vogue solution to climate change was a carbon tax -- maybe it would be steadily rising, maybe there would be a public dividend, or something like that. And then --
