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I turned 50 in 2007, so I'm practicing curmudgeon-like behavior by stressing, "whatever it is, I'm agin' it!" Call me anarcho-syndicalist or progressive, except I think most anarchists and progressives are as annoying as neocons. I like to point folks to way-outside-the-mainstream literature and music, while grumbling about everything else.
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Thanks to my brother-in-law, Patrick, this blog now has a personal brand!
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A Few of My Favorite Sites
- A View from the Green Barn - Don's Green Acres Adventures
- Antiwar
- camerone's musings
- David Rovics' Songwriters' Notebook
- Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams
- EE Times
- Engineering Politics
- Fluxgraphia
- Global Network
- Greeley's Ghost
- IdaRose, Digitalgrrl Genius
- Jobo43's political tirades
- Julie K. Fournier's Art and Design Site
- Mountain Pulse
- Noise Annoys
- One Small Square - The Annex
- Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission
- Portable Design
- Puffing
- Revolutionary Road: The Situation in Iran
- Susanna's Farm
- Synchronizing
- Taste Eucharist - Inca Ore's Food Blog
- Volcanic Tongue
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About Me
- Loring Wirbel
- Colorado Springs, CO, United States
- Born and raised in Grand Ledge, Mich., lived throughout the southwest, been in the evango-military center of Colorado Springs for 16 years.
4 comments:
Loring, thanks for bringing the McKibben piece to our attention! That's a winner.
There won't be any sacrifice anytime soon in this country unless it's forced upon us. I've had long conversations with supposedly liberal-minded friends about pollution or global warming. "Why don't you take public transportation or ride your bike to work a few times a week?" I'll ask.
"Are you kidding me?" comes the usual reply.
Much of the solution to our problems, as McKibben points out, lies within ourselves (and, hint, by the way it has little to do with buying a plug-in electric vehicle): turn the lights out when you leave a room, turn your heat down or go without it if it's not freezing outside (ever hear of a sweater?); walk your ass to the grocery store with a couple of re-usable bags (you won't buy stuff you don't need because you'd have to schlep the extra stuff home); turn off the tube and read a book/walk/talk to someone. Play an instrument that doesn't require an amplifier (the sound is always more beautiful) -- most don't.
I dunno. Seems like a simple answer to me.
Ok, I need to read it. Give me a minute . . .
Loring, couldn't find the article. Do you have a more specific URL?
CLick on the phrase "cult of self" in the post, it takes you straight to the PDF.
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