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The Swamps of Jersey
I wrote a piece about the new development plans in the Meadowlands, here, which is rendered (my word) like so:And if I am not mistaken, Rosalita is the tune that includes the following lyric"...
View ArticleFree Agency, Part 2
The response by the NYPD to the Associated Press report on the New York City police department's counter terrorism program was notable for being as petty-seeming as it claimed the A.P.'s report is.NYPD...
View ArticleAnd Yet
Right! Nothing you do matters!You reduce, reuse and recycle. You turn down plastic and paper. You avoid out-of-season grapes. You do all the right things.Good.Just know that it won’t save the tuna,...
View ArticleBroken
A friend of the TYDK—N.D., the cousin of one of the unicyclists here—sent over this below, and we are all very grateful:
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Reykjavik Watch
Just as the red maples lead the chorus of turning leaves as they set south from Nova Scotia and Maine, slowly setting fire to the woods in the Middle Atlantic states--set fire figuratively speaking, of...
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Dave in Meadowlands!
Meadowlands aficionados will be excited to know that my friend Dave is in and out of the Meadowlands today—to wit:
View ArticleMatthew Sharpe's Powell's Expedition
The Echo Maker is the title of Sharpe's first Powell's guest blog post, one of a week's worth of posts and posts. Take heed!I find this humbling: the possibility that always and everywhere, our...
View ArticleMatthew Sharpe Takes it Home
The week that was Matthew Sharpe's week bloggin' at Powell's wrapped up today, Friday.
View ArticleLet Them Eat Only Organic Snacks!
Frank Bruni's column on famous chefs' food fights, gets at the things often unsaid about fancy foods, such as this:A great deal of American obesity is attributable to the dearth ofhealthy food that’s...
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A Greek in a Dark Pool, or Dublin
I wish I could see Katie Holten's new public art work on the streets of Dublin, Ireland.
View ArticleRowdy
Has everyone been following William Hogeland's blog on the subject of the Wall Street protests? It's deeply applicable:But I write about the deep, founding roots of rowdy, American populist protest and...
View ArticleContrast of Message Messages
Some people think the Occupy Wall Street Protest is too vague in its stated (or unstated) demands and that that is a problem, a strike against the Wall Street strike. Other people don't. Here are two...
View ArticleReading
Some reading—a few pages from the introduction ofThere is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America, by Philip Dray. But it now.
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A Gift
Thisis commented on here at length. How it relates to this below is, unfortunately, not clear.
View ArticleWhat Took Them So Long?
A point that Naomi Klein made on the Brian Leher show was not that people in countries outside of the U.S. were asking: What are they protesting for? Rather, she said, people outside the U.S. had seen...
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Cleanliness is Next to Crowdliness
Reports (and neighbors) suggested to the staff of the TYDK that the people at the protests were good-for-nothing teens who didn't shower. We heard the no showering thing several times while on our...
View ArticleWages
The Women's Law Project reports:Recently released 2010 census data shows the gender gap unimproved from the year before—women still make only 77 cents to every dollar a man makes. For women of color...
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In Earlier News
An I.W.W. protest in Union Square, broken up subsequently by the police, on April 5, 1914.The headline in the Times:
View ArticleWhat it would take to lose all the bike lanes in NYC
Bike Snob is, among other things, a genius. He has proved it again by calculating the number of a particular subset of bikers—he defines a member of this subset as a "Nü-Fred Bike Hate Unit," or...
View ArticleZip Locked
There is really not much to say.The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
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Begging to Cross
An excellent post on so-called Beg Buttons, the thing on poles that we are supposed to push in order to walk.Let’s be honest about the purpose of beg buttons. They don’t exist to make it easier for...
View ArticlePig and Frog
We understand that there were some attacks on the Muppets, arguing that they were against oil companies. Here is the Muppets response:
View Articleto contact the author
email him at authorinfo@gmail.com, and expect a possible delay in response, cause, you know...
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