Monthly Archives: June 2010
Rewind – HFCS, Corn, and Mercury
| June 29, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Think About It |
Many people complain that organic or local food is “more expensive”. This, however, presumes that the sticker price at the store is the complete picture of cost. Say an industrial item at the store is .99, the (probably industrial) organic version is 2.99 and the thing from your local farmer is 5.99. For a lot of people, that equation looks pretty simple, and they get the 99 cent item. What if the label were a bit longer, though? What if you recognized, each time you put an item in your basket that the equation went something more like this: Keep Reading
Smile! Optimism
| June 27, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Uncategorized |
This video makes me smile every time I watch it. Keep Reading
Endgame Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization
| June 24, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
The sermon begins with the idea that civilization is not and never will be sustainable. By definition, it is unsustainable, exploitative, and destructive. It is killing the planet, and us, and making things extremely difficult for anything that comes after us. No one who understands this believes that our culture will, as Jensen puts it “undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living.” Keep Reading
Inventing History
| June 21, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Don McLeroy is perhaps the most vocal and forceful member of the 7 Christian conservatives on the board who tend to vote together. He proposed page after page of amendments to the document that educators had drawn up. For example, he wanted to add words about Ronald Reagan’s “leadership in restoring national confidence” and wanted students to “describe the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.” Most of his amendments passed. One amendment before the board required students to evaluate the contributions of significant Americans. Newt Gingrich was upgraded. Ted Kennedy didn’t make the cut. Keep Reading
It’s a Comment Party!
| June 17, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Blogging |
Hey you! Yeah, you there reading this post! Hi! ::waves::
Sometimes I peek in on my traffic stats for this blog and I see you over there! Oh, it’s just a number, but I see how many of you are visiting each day and how many of you subscribe in a reader, so I know you’re out there!
A lot of you don’t comment here, and I completely get why. I read a gazillion different blogs, and I do leave comments here and there, but I don’t cover much ground. And I post on a lot of different topics here, so there are probably a lot of posts that you skim right on by. And some of you pop in from Google to a specific post and probably never even see the front page.
But! Keep Reading
Rewind – The Checklist of Fear
| June 14, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Every time I go into a bathroom stall in a public place, I am reminded of a warning I received from a now-forgotten source long, long ago. Don’t hang your purse on the hook on the door, because thieves will reach over the door and steal your purse. I don’t know if this is still common advice; I haven’t heard it lately. Even in the face of the warning, I have never failed to hang my purse from the door. Even as I remember it every single time, I do not heed the warning. Regardless of not heeding it, though, it still takes up room in my brain. As do countless other warnings and tactics taught to me from nebulous sources over the years. Keep Reading
Things You Don’t Need – Convenience Items
| June 10, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Simple-Eco-Happy |
I’m a firm believer in the idea that you can’t spend money to save money or to save time. An individual purchase might seem like a good idea, but in the long run, some types of small purchases add up to a more complex life that doesn’t benefit you. I also hate products that try to fix problems you don’t have.
On a recent grocery store trip, I spotted two items that really struck me in how silly they were. Keep Reading
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