In 2012, the United States will spend more than $1 trillion on the defense department and war. We spend more on the military than we do anything else in the federal budget. The 2012 allocation for education is $77.4 billion, or approximately 7% of what we splurge on defending ourselves. Cancelling the space shuttle saved […]
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What’s Precious and What’s Not
November 27, 2011 
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There’s nothing like moving to make you separate what’s precious from what’s not. I’ve moved eleven times in the last seventeen years. Somewhere back around move number four I cut my library in half. At different places along the way I’ve left behind desks, bookshelves, chairs, a tiller, and partial stake in a foosball table. […]
Continue readingThe Limits of Occupying Wall Street
October 23, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve been trying to decide what I think about the Occupy Wall Street crowd camped out in New York City’s Zucotti Park. I came of age in the late Sixties, and they remind me a little of that time—a disparate bunch, loosely organized around a sense of injustice, with more than a few joining in […]
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