Category Archives: Art

Glenn Beck Freaks Out Over South Korean Skyscraper

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Because everything in the world must revolve around Beck and the United States, no exceptions. . . He was pissed and the target was South Korea. His rage was so pure that he was demanding that the U.S. pull all of our troops out of the country immediately. Why? Because one of the S. Korea’s planned skyscrapers made him think of 9/11.

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Poem: Tree Incarnation

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By Grant Meaby (10.07.2010)
Copyright Grant Meaby 1996

I don’t want to be cremated
Because burning creates pollution
A green burial on the other hand
Appeals as a solution
I want to pass back into the earth
The earth from which I came
Organic decomposition
And be reborn again
I’d feed the many insects
The microbe and the worm
Provide nutrients for the flora
And in the longer term
My body would then be dispersed
Throughout the biosphere
And the plaque upon my tree would read
‘Reincarnated here’

Overdue Notice: Defend Our Libraries

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. . . [T]oday, in the wake of an inexhaustible economic crisis and the reactionary assault on everything public, the public library is under attack. Local governments across the United States—from New York City to Detroit, and from Denver to Seattle—are slashing library budgets and closing libraries. . . These cuts will disproportionately punish poor and working class people.

Another key aspect of the public library mission is to defend free speech and intellectual freedom. With programs like “Banned Books Week,” libraries are on the front lines of defending the rights of people to examine unpopular points of view so they can make their own informed decisions.

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