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Free PDF of Stopping Tragedy

On Kindle Short Reads, Stopping Tragedy is currently #4 in Politics and Social Science, and #24 in Religion and Spirituality. It’s #33 in Kindle books in the Zen category. I’m happy about this, of course, but not everyone has a Kindle, and not everyone has a dollar to spend, so if you want a free PDF, contact me with an email address and I’ll send it along.

Although copyright is mine, I want this little book to be shared freely. You may pass it along to anyone who wants it, and make as many co...

PRX

PRX:

A SCAM, NOT A FIGHT

Me talking about tonight’s Mayweather-Pacquio fight

Scenes from my perambulations around Portland yesterday

First I went to the Peculiarium (where you can buy my books) and got a picture with the resident gorilla:

As I walked on NW 23rd, I saw this drummer using the urban environment as his instrument, Harry Partch-style:

And then, on the bus, I saw this guy, whom I’ve seen a few times before:

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"When an attack of hauteur masked as civility strikes, one would do well to recall Sam Gompers’ reply..."

“When an attack of hauteur masked as civility strikes, one would do well to recall Sam Gompers’ reply to Mark Hanna’s complaint about the ‘undiplomatic’ behavior of the Buffalo Steelworkers in his employ who had gone on strike to protest abuse by their foremen. ‘We don’t raise diplomats,’ said Gompers, ‘at fifteen cents an hour.’”

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The Populist Persuasion, Michael Kazin

Been trying all day to figure out where this quote can fit into the chapter of my book I’m working on and finally decided th...

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“Some people may consider the title of this small book...

“Some people may consider the title of this small book hyperbolic. It isn’t. It was confirmed by the New York Police Department in December 2014. Although the number of unarmed or noncriminal citizens killed by cops that year was 593, and countless citizens were tear-gassed or beaten by cops, the perpetrators didn’t admit it was a war. But, when a mentally-disturbed, apolitical man shot two cops as they sat in a car in N.Y.C., the cops declared that they now considered themselves at war.”

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Who was the first fictional character you ever identified with?

Frankenstein’s monster, first in the Mary Shelley novel, and later in the film The Bride of Frankenstein.

criminalwisdom:Via Hurt You Bad

criminalwisdom:

Via Hurt You Bad