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In Less Than 5 Years, Unions Could Lose Their Legal Rights - And It's The Supreme Court's Fault

In Less Than 5 Years, Unions Could Lose Their Legal Rights - And It's The Supreme Court's Fault:

ruckawriter:

By Ian Millhiser.

*The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a challenge to President Obama’s power to name several recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. By most accounts, the argument did not go well for the administration. Justice Stephen Breyer said that he could not find anything in the Constitution that will “allow the president to overcome Senate resist...

Kitty and Maggie have such stressful lives…

Kitty and Maggie have such stressful lives…

Recording of me on Radio Boise's Poetry Show

Recording of me on Radio Boise's Poetry Show:

Daphne Stanford and I talked about poetry and Zen, and I read some poems from Traffic and Murder.

This afternoon I'll be on Radio Boise's poetry show

This afternoon I'll be on Radio Boise's poetry show:

I’ll recite some of my poems, and talk with poet/host Daphne Stanford.

daishinstephenson:entranceOne of my favorite Daishin...

daishinstephenson:

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One of my favorite Daishin Stephenson photos.

INSIDE THE INCREDIBLE BOOMING SUBTERRANEAN MARIJUANA RAILROAD

INSIDE THE INCREDIBLE BOOMING SUBTERRANEAN MARIJUANA RAILROAD:

criminalwisdom:

On a quiet night along the Tijuana border, you can almost hear them coming: the faint scraping of metal on dirt, falling clumps of earth, muted voices in the depths. At any given moment, there are men underground here, chipping their way toward the United States with antlike determination.

Many of the drug tunnels will be discovered and shut down before they’re operational, but it doesn’t matter; more will come. The...

aljazeeraamerica:Gangsters and ‘slaves’: The people cleaning...

aljazeeraamerica:

Gangsters and ‘slaves’: The people cleaning up Fukushima

In the depths of Japan’s nuclear crisis in March 2011, a small band of workers at the Fukushima power plant stayed behind, stomaching daily doses of deadly radiation to bring the plant under control after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered multiple meltdowns. They became known as the Fukushima 50.

“We felt we had a responsibility to put things right,” nuclear engineer Atsufumi Yoshizawa told America Tonight. “And...

travelingcolors:Cherry Trees Avenue | Japan (by 翔雲)

travelingcolors:

Cherry Trees Avenue | Japan (by 翔雲)

A Note on Robert Bresson's Notes

One of the books I’ve found most helpful to my work is Robert Bresson’sNotes on the Cinematographer. He refers to the actors in his films not as “actors,” but as “models,” because he sees the art of acting as something that gets in the way of the truth that is being shown. He writes:It would not be ridiculous to say to your models: “I am inventing you as you are.”

This reminds me of an interview I read with the actor Ray Winstone, in which he said that his friend Gary Oldman had been hel...

"A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror..."

“A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature. It is a way in which the cold winter rain, the swallows of evening, even the very day in its hotness, and the length of the night, become truly alive, share in our humanity, speak their own silent and expressive language.”

- R.H. Blyth