My co-worker Deanna has found a very cool and simple way of eliminating the need for plastic sandwich bags. The Wrap-N-Mat is an almost offensively simple reusable sandwich wrap/place mat. You just fold the PEVA lined cloth around your sandwich and secure it with a velcro strap.
Yes. I am mad I didn’t think of this. [...]
One country has eliminated a shortage of transplant kidneys, by creating system to pay kidney donors, and (I’m about to link to a Cato Institute report, ready? Here we go…), it’s apparently working. That country is Iran.
The Iranian system works through a volunteer organization and is “highly standardized and regulated with only modest room for [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven’t watched the debate yet. I was going to watch it last night, but I didn’t. Seriously, who schedules a debate during Top Model?
From what I’ve been reading on other sites, it sounds like I got a more intelligent discussion of the issues by watching “Real World XX: [...]
I’m back from a few days at the Green Festival in Seattle, which was a nice event and gives me a lot of ground to cover the next few days on some really neat finds. In the meantime, a few random notes for Wednesday:
(1) We just got a fax at my day job at The [...]
Today is the much-anticipated date of Pope Benedict XVI’s first trip to the US as pontiff. We as a nation are so happy to see him, that we got our best President on the horn and told him to go give that Pope a ride home from the aerodrome. Which reminds me of a [...]
An old college professor of mine said that the best way to analyze an ancient culture was to look for the things they “intended to be discovered”. In other words, the best way to look at a society is to find those thing which were made with such care, and designed from such indestructible [...]
While the now pointless distraction that is the Democratic Primary enters it’s 14th year, it’s nice to be reminded what a colossal bag of dicks presumptive Republican nominee John McCain really is.
Thanks to Progressive Media U.S.A. for reminding us what we’re really fighting against.
I have a pretty good grounding in the history of radical politics, and I know a good bit about the Black Panthers. I lived in Oakland for a spell and read up and am pretty knowledgeable. The bit I didn’t know: Huey Newton was fucking hot. Seriously. The dude was ripped. I’m in Seattle for [...]
On Friday Barack Obama spoke at a closed-press fundraiser in California where he said some pretty harsh things about former and current President Bush as well as former President Clinton’s handling of issues that effect the rural poor.
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, [...]
It has been a kinda slow news week. Either that, or the fact that I can now go outside without my eyeballs freezing in their sockets has distracted me from the important business of sitting in front of the interweb all day. Whatever the case is, we think there are a few things that happened [...]
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