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Wednesday, October 8, 2008





In 2008 more people live in cities than in rural areas. One third of city dwellers, more than a billion people, live in slums.

The Places We Live ~ Photographs by Jonas Bendiksen



Tuesday, October 7, 2008



We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits




Tom Waits and Kronos String Quartet ~ Cold Cold Ground


Sunday, October 5, 2008





"Sarah Palin. Babies. Guns. Jesus. Hot damn."

Rush Limbaugh