Jody Bower

Nonattachment Loosening the Grip of Anger

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The right-wing tech magnates like to think of themselves as heroes. They aren't.
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nor oregano . . .

My dude Charlie, who hugs me

Always Wanting More the slippery slope that leads to evil

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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

- Hannah Arendt

I vote to rename the president "Lew Zingit."

a cat stretched out as much as possible on the floor

He lies by the heat vent until he gets too hot then does this

How Does Fentanyl Reach the United States? President Trump has imposed steep tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico in the name of curbing fentanyl flows into the United States. In reality, supplies of the drug—and related deaths—have sharply d…

What do you know, it's not coming from Canada.
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The Lover King and the Tyrant. Guess which one we've got right now.
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yeah because men never let testosterone-fueled rage affect them . . .

“And I have — I first started thinking, is it — am I feeling grief? Am I feeling shock, like I'm in a hallucination? But I just think shame, moral shame. It's a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way.”

“Donald Trump believes in one thing. He believes that might makes right. And, in that, he agrees with Vladimir Putin that they are birds of a feather. And he and Vladimir Putin together are trying to create a world that's safe for gangsters, where ruthless people can thrive."

" . . . vilely to our friends in Europe. And today was the bottom of the barrel, vilely to a man who is defending Western values, at great personal risk to him and his countrymen."

And we make mistakes, Iraq, Vietnam, but they're usually mistakes out of stupidity, naivete and arrogance."
“They're not because we're ill-intentioned. What I have seen over the last six weeks is the United States behaving vilely, vilely to our friends in Canada and Mexico . . ."

"All my life, I have had a certain idea of about America, that we're a flawed country, but we're fundamentally a force for good in the world, that we defeated Soviet Union, we defeated fascism, we did the Marshall Plan, we did PEPFAR to help people live in Africa."

THIS. (continues in comments)

Longtime Republican columnist and commentator David Brooks said the following after the White House mistreatment of the Ukrainian president on Friday.
“I was nauseated, just nauseated."

Triggered by the abusive treatment of Zelenskyy.
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You can sue for wrongful termination if you're fired without documented cause. ESPECIALLY if you're a government employee.

I've changed my name twice. It's simple. Easy enough to change it back to the one on my birth certificate . . .

In 2023, national parks contributed a record $55.6 billion to the U.S. economy. They cost the US $3.6 billion to run.

a cautionary tale

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who's going to read all those emails? Who's going to pay for the staff necessary to read all those emails? This is bluster to look good to the Magats.

Exactly! The stages of "knowing" (per Belensky et al.)
1. Don't know, don't want to know.
2. Believe everything I'm told by my accepted authority.
3. Hey! I have my own opinions! (Don't tell ME what to think!)
4. Learned a METHOD for analyzing information.
5. Began questioning my own assumptions.

I think his point is that the English were the role models for how their former colonists have behaved since.

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The NZ Herald (New Zealand)
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Dismantling Structures A Latina friend and colleague asked me to be on her dissertation committee some years ago, which meant that I got to attend her oral defense, where she presented her work and a panel of professors ask...

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