Random Recitals * The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country. I hope Obama and Congress are listening. From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here): February 13, 2009 BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]
Article by John on February 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what to do about the banking crisis. But it does take a Congress that is comprised of something more than paid shills for the industries they are supposed to be regulating. President Obama got it right by attempting to put a compensation cap on executive pay for entities taking taxpayer rescue funds. Well according to Cenk Uygur [...]
Article by John on December 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pm On November 13, 2008, the world lost a tremendous force of good in the dog world. Ingela Levett, 63, was the Founder and President of Rawhide Rescue. A non-profit rescue group of foster homes that worked tirelessly to find “forever homes” for dogs. She helped save over 2000 dogs and brought happiness to so many people. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.thedogfiles.com\/2008\/11\/21\/the-dogs-files-mourns-the-passing-of-ingela-levett\/","http:\/\/members.petfinder.com\/%7ENJ235\/ourdogs.htm","http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/d4941185-795c-4c26-9804-3b7625eb49d8\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = [...]
Article by missy on September 29th, 2008 at 11:49 am In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry. The vote against the measure was 228 to 205. Supporters vowed to try to bring the rescue package up for consideration against as soon as possible. Stock markets plunged sharply at midday as it appeared that the [...]
Article by John on September 29th, 2008 at 7:51 am Words are easy. Go back 15 years and somehow decide that so and so should not have been paid this million or that million because it led to the mortgage collapse? Who gets to decide who was paid too much and by how much? Confiscate the overpaid Wall Street barons’ assets that are now parked in offshore accounts that are [...]
Article by missy on October 1st, 2007 at 2:14 pm Unlike most white folks from the South, Burma has been a part of my consciousness since I was in kindergarten. My education began in the first kindergarten class of a new, progressive-minded Episcopal school. St. Stephens back then was tiny: fewer than 200 students in 13 grades, and six of those students were Newhalls. And two of the Newhalls were Burmese. Jimmy and Johnny were identical twins, [...]
Article by John on July 5th, 2007 at 5:16 pm This is such a splendid article I am pasting it in full. I don't think David will mind. He can sue me if he does. And since we are no longer a country ruled by laws, it won't matter. By David Sirota There is a story that warms the heart of every Washington-based pundit, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, a story that hearkens back [...]
Article by Rich on June 30th, 2007 at 10:46 am I just saw Michael Moore's Sicko. It was great seeing it in a crowded theater on a Friday afternoon. Like watching Fahrenheit 911, hearing a whole room full of people gasp in exasperation at some of the movie's more startling revelations made it all the more real. This is an issue that really hits home with all of us, yet gets little real mainstream discussion [...] | |
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