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Imagine being a speaker at a fundraiser for disadvantaged sick kids, and then getting up on the microphone to complain about taxes in our state, and complain about our governor. Then imagine a crowd full of wealthy people (supposedly there because they care about poor sick children) cheering this misguided guy's speech. WTF. Start a gratitude journal, people. We live in a beautiful city. If you don't like it, move to Arkansas where the Walmart headquarters are.

“I told my wife I was going to buy an envelope. She says, ‘You're not a poor man. Why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?’ So I pretend not to hear her and go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people and see some great-looking babes. A fire engine goes by, and I give them the thumbs up. I ask a woman what kind of dog that is. Of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize—or they don't care—is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.” ---Kurt Vonnegut

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Anand Giridharadas on 'Winners Take All' and the charade of elite philanthropy | VPRO Documentary Writer Anand Giridharadas describes in his book " Winners Take All:...

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Now this is how you respond to bigotry

Went to this exhibit in NYC and it's powerful. Next stop: Washington DC. Tell your DC pals! And donate to the tour, maybe it'll come to your city.

Donate to Take the Reading Room to DC — blocks from the White House, organized by The Institute for Primary Facts Nearly ten thousand New Yorkers walked through 3,437 volumes … The Institute for Primary Facts needs your support for Take the Reading Room to DC — blocks from the White House

Great story about my father, Riley Shepard. I hope you'll listen and share it!

The Cowboy Philosopher Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · May 11 · 1h 29m

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Let's end ageism It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. "Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a....