“Reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it […]
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“In ancient Rome, the poet Juvenal used the phrase bread and circuses to describe the political strategy of a number of corrupt Roman emperors. To keep the populace happy and to distract them from foreign and domestic policy failures, these emperors provided cheap daily bread and frequent circuses—mainly gladiatorial contests and other riveting games. According
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We can finally keep the rain off the front door now that the front porch overhang is done. My dad came over and helped put the metal roof on after this picture was taken. Coco got to explore the cabin roof for a few days before we installed the metal roof on the new front
We needed a woodshed built quickly since we just installed a wood stove. We have quite a bit of fire wood cut and stacked under tarps, but it wasn’t close to the house or split very well. The flooring and wall lumber was milled with the Alaskan chainsaw mill. Ben and I split the cedar
This is why I sometimes affectionately refer to Ben as my little guru. He shows me so many things I need to let go of or confront. He is a very good teacher without even knowing it!
All the Bush bashing and now the Obama bashing is disappointing and narrow minded. Obama is not “The Problem”…..we are. Our President, government, institutions, culture are a reflection of us. All of the economic problems, food and water problems, man made environmental problems, and wars are only symptoms of a single problem pushing us to
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We all belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and the same sub species, Homo sapiens sapiens. Our diversity in appearance, culture, or ethnicity should not be tied to any concept of quality even though that is the underlying message frequently conveyed in our mass media’s content.
We finally get to put our electric space heaters away, because we just finished installing our wood stove. I’ll go over the install and give our first impressions on the stove. I considered purchasing the Jotul F 602 CB for about the same price, but we went with the Morso 1410. Both stoves are EPA
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What if part of the label on goods sold in a retail environment included the average hourly wage in U.S. dollars that the producer paid to it’s workers?