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kellyangel:Apparently it’s not a legitimate reason to miss...

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Apparently it’s not a legitimate reason to miss work.

Why is it more wrong to kill intelligent animals?

This Guardian articleby John Sweeney argues that because the intelligence of elephants is similar to that of humans, it’s wrong to kill them.

I don’t understand this argument; if a creature’s right not to be killed is correlated to its intelligence, then humans with developmental disabilities have less right to live than those who don’t.

I suspect that Sweeney wouldn’t agree, because his argument seems to be less about logic or morality and more about what could be...

powells:rewrightme:Heck yeah. He was a #journalist too. #pdx...

powells:

rewrightme:

Heck yeah. He was a #journalist too. #pdx #streetart #graffiti #hemingway #literature #twitter #nofilter (at Alberta Arts District)

Would he though?

"When you go to an art gallery, you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few..."

“When you go to an art gallery, you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.”

- Banksy

Columbus Day: A Celebration of Greed, Cruelty and Incompetence

Columbus Day: A Celebration of Greed, Cruelty and Incompetence:

With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want& Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold - Christopher Columbus Today the U.S….

Urban exploration is only bourgeois when it has a name

Image: Hugh Spicer

I’m reading Bradley L. Garrett’s excellent book Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City. In it, Garrett says that urban exploration is mostly a middle-class pursuit, since its practitioners need the time and resources to do it. He’s right as far as that goes, but what the bourgeois experiences as a hobby is an experience that arises naturally for others. When an activity has to be named, it means that the people naming it experience it as something “other.”...

"A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say,..."

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A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?”

He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” The kid was ready. Ready, man! For an anger blast to his face….”How could you do that?” “What’s wrong...

Enlightenment is not "happy ever after"

Image: Hakuin

(I found the following note in my handwriting tucked into a copy of Red Pine’s translation of The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma , which I opened this morning for the first time in close to ten years. I laughed when I read what I had written, because I have no recollection of writing it, and, looking through the book, I can’t tell which part I wrote it in response to.)

The end of suffering actually turns out to be the end of separation from suffering.

Suffering does not dis...

Portlanders love to stand in line

People in this city will happily stand in line for 90 minutes just to get a donut or an ice cream. Go to Voodoo Donuts at any hour that most people are awake, and the line will reach around the block. Tonight I was walking up 23rd, and the crowd outside Salt and Straw was so dense it took over the whole sidewalk.

I can’t think of anything I’d wait in line so long for. Tickets to a Dylan show? Sex? Maybe.

uksa:Hyuro New Mural

uksa:

Hyuro New Mural