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The Moods of Ernest Hemingway | The New Yorker
He nodded. Then he nodded a few times at me—a repetition of the sign for attention. “What I want to be when I am old is a wise old man who won’t bore,” he said, then paused while the waiter set a plate of asparagus and an artichoke before him and poured the Tavel. HemingwayContinue Reading
The Great Unpatterning Continues. Make Sure You Take Advantage Of It | Zero Hedge
The clear-eyed rebel’s job, therefore, is to watch for opportunities to help lead us as a collective along a brand new, healthy trajectory. There’s no way to know in advance what those opportunities will look like, because predictability is premised on pattern consistency. But they will appear, from unpredictable and unanticipated new directions. Wherever youContinue Reading
Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, wants to build a ’15-minute city’
A sketch from the reelection campaign outlines one way a street might change to make it more enticing to avoid driving and better utilize the existing road space: Filled with traffic and parked cars now, it would be redesigned with greenery and park space at the side, a wide lane for biking and walking, andContinue Reading
Capitalism In America: How A Dismal Decimal Is Robbing Americans Blind | Zero Hedge
The United States is an oligarchy This concentration of the income and wealth on the top, proves that the United States is an oligarchy. A 2014, study by Princeton University demonstrated how the US is a political oligarchy. With this report showing the insanely widening income and wealth inequality, my aim is to show, that theContinue Reading
Coping With Global (& Local) Chaos: What You Can Control And What You Can’t
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Have you been glued to the news lately, nervously watching what’s going on in the Middle East? Are you concerned that World War III is about to kick off at any moment? Is the state of the economy frequently on your mind? Maybe it’s Ebola thatContinue Reading
Universal Basic Income + Automation + Plutocracy = Dystopia
The solution, obviously, is to stop this before it happens, because if it’s allowed to happen it will be far too late to do anything about it. People are going to have to wake up out of the propaganda matrix and take power away from the billionaire class, and that must necessarily include taking controlContinue Reading
American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot To Destabilize The Nation Is Working
Be dangerous in the best way possible: by thinking for yourself, by refusing to be silenced, by choosing sensible solutions over political expediency and bureaucracy. When all is said and done, the solution to what ails this country is really not that complicated: decency, compassion, common sense, generosity balanced by fiscal responsibility, fairness, a commitmentContinue Reading
Legendary Post columnist Steve Dunleavy dead at 81
Hemingway with an Aussie accent. They live!!! Source: Legendary Post columnist Steve Dunleavy dead at 81
“They Had Me At Gunpoint”: Hertz Customers Keep Getting Arrested For Driving “Stolen” Cars | Zero Hedge
This happened to me with U-Haul. It’s a real thing. It’s a weird thing. Yep, we were driving up Sherman avenue in Hamilton and I noticed two cruisers behind me. It was a one-way street at this point that I was turning onto. I got kind of flustered as I wasn’t sure I could makeContinue Reading