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Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days
If you can, take a moment to visit and read from the blog Starting Today: Poems for the First 100 Days at http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com. Two talented and accomplished poets, Arielle Greenberg and...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal: Pay Affordable Healthcare Forward During the 2012 Election...
According to frequently cited report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, thanks to the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) rule in PPACA, health plans in the United States will be sending an estimated $1.3 billion...
View ArticleI just went to Godaddy and checked: someone's already registered...
A Bain investment? Maybe Romney's presidential run's all one epic, genius hedge strategy.By the way, in the FDLS Church, I'm pretty sure "binder of women" is synonymous with "family."
View ArticleBlack Friday Protest at Walmart in Renton, WA - a few photos
A few friends and I went to the Black Friday protest at the Walmart in Renton this morning. Good to see the turnout....at least 200 people, and this was happening at hundreds of stores around the...
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Would someone please tell me...
What do we do with these children in Congress and the childish people who support them? They want to win at all costs. They want you to stop RIGHT NOW and listen. Pay attention! Give them what they...
View ArticleFree trade v. freedom: guess who wins (betcha you can!)
My partner Cassie and I recently launched a blog, Cusco Running Club, to share our thoughts as we spend the summer traveling in Peru exploring the social and psychological aspects of global warming in...
View ArticleA Tragically Common Storyline
(also posted at Cusco Running Club)As economic forces penetrate and overwhelm the natural environment, they overrun the only remaining people who know how to live in harmony with that environment.The...
View ArticleMunich Re, Monsanto, and insights from a Norwegian post-doc
This afternoon I made a rather happy discovery as my inexpert mind attempted to digest the recent announcement that reinsurance giant Munich Re plans to collaborate with Germany's Gesellschaft für...
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1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4...
From my partner-in-crime, Cassie, a follow-up to our last post ("Munich Re, Monsanto, and insights from a Norwegian post-doc"). Grub beneath the taters...
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Unknown tribe that fled Peruvian Amazon contracted flu, returned to jungle
Which way to the jungle? Turns out the perks of civilization -- wool blankets, canned food, Netflix, flu shots -- just aren't worth it. The unknown tribe that came out of the Peruvian Amazon the week...
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Nazca Lines: the cold waiting veins of the future
I have been dwelling these past few weeks on image-making and the ephemerality of landscape, how creating a simulacrum of the natural world takes into the creator something of the image, how in the...
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Sometimes you gotta raise your voice to be heard
A Peruvian Indigenous woman stands in front of a colorful banner at the "National Conference of Women for Climate Justice in Defense of Mother Earth." Some of the rights that they are asking for are...
View Article"Everything you love is at stake. Warrior up."
Guest Note: Emily JohnstonA sincere thanks to Emily Johnston for helping us kick off Cusco Running Club's Guest Notes, a series of posts highlighting voices and perspectives other than our own. Send us...
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Peru Guts Environmental Protections
Mountain worshipping Even as Peru is gearing up to host the 2014 United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20) in Lima, President...
View ArticleTo the man who spit in my face and stole my iPhone at El Mercado 16 de Julio
I can’t blame you. There’s nothing quite like holding against one’s face something so intimate, what’s lived in another man’s pants for months on end, nestled against the crotch. What can I say? I get...
View ArticleVICE and a few words on Peru's New Cocaine
VICE magazine recently wrote an article about illegal gold mining in Peru and the environmental devastation that it has wrought on the country's southern Amazon jungle. The piece took a much-needed,...
View Article"Peru is experiencing many of the effects of global warming before the rest...
Guest Note: Jim Galasyn - Global Warming and Peru"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."– James BaldwinGlobal warming is real You may have heard...
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Sex Trafficking in Peru: Tourism is Colonialism, Part 1
"Tourism is Colonisation": Graffiti on a wall in San Blas, Cusco. Jeff and I are on a double-decker bus headed to Lima, feet propped on the front window, trying to ignore the semis crossing the double...
View ArticleSpeaking for Peru's Trees
Guest Note: Deirdre Lockwood How do you measure the impact of forests on global climate? In Peru, the Amazon rainforest and other forest lands provide crucial habitat for a diverse bunch of creatures,...
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Pope Dope or Nope...Who Cares?
I'm a little perplexed by all this fervent commentary from the progressive community about whether Pope Francis did or did not mean to meet with Kim Davis, the self-aggrandizing moron from Kentucky....
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BREAKING: Manufacturer of Diamond® Matches Rumored to be Feeling the Bern
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Martin E. Franklin, Founder and Executive Chairman of Jarden Corporation, which owns and operates the Diamond® brand of consumer products, has plans to endorse Vermont...
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