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interesting:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138559911/honey-stop-the-car-monuments-that-move-you&sc=fb&cc=fp


how hot is it?
http://gawker.com/5823537/new-yorks-best-damn-its-hot-photos/gallery/1

and people taking the onion seriously:
http://literallyunbelievable.org/

Planning on giving money to Haiti relief efforts?

Felix Salmon
Uffish yet manxome

Dont give money to Haiti
JAN 15, 2010 16:30 EST
PHILANTHROPY
Between the Twitter campaigns and the telethons and the corporate donations and the record sums raised through text messages, you can be sure that an enormous amount of cash is going to end up being raised to help Haiti. This is...
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i am currently caught up working as the field director for a city council campaign.

though this is the smallest campaign i've worked on to date, it has some personal significance to me. the candidate who i am trying to help get elected is asian. there are currently only 2 elected asian officials in the whole state. which is both surprising and typical - surprising...
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. --Mark Twain


It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate...
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sometimes,
i wonder if the best way to help bring about change working from the inside out? or the more romanticized outside in?

or neither? or both?

there are days when its hard to believe change for the better is ever possible. or why we have to fight for it rather than it be our natural default setting.

a lot of this stuff is from the last several years, but in either case, its hours of mindless fun.

http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com/

random thoughts to ponder.

am i looking for love in all the wrong places?

probably.

i cant work in politics too much longer.

first day back on SG in over a year. it feels like the first time though...but its nice - i've missed it.