freckles make me strong.
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Eva and I made this salad this weekend for barbecue. It was excellent! It is tangy and refreshing and makes for great left overs. We doubled the recipe and have been eating it for days without complaint. Eva has been making the dish for a while and has added her own twist, using red onion instead of green and adding a couple dashes of Chalula, or another hot sauce of your choosing. Simple and delicicous, this may just become my new summer standby.
Serves 6
Ingredients
Fred Weller, In Plain Sight
For Ms. Wong, a gem in a pile of rubble. Happy birthday.
(via thoughtsdetained)F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I just finished the Great Gatsby. It has such brilliant and satisfying closing lines.
I am so delighted you could make it. I have been waiting for you ALL week!
copycats:DJ BAHLER - Turnstiles
Matt & Kim – Block After Block
Iyaz – Replay
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrslf Clean“Newest mashup, I hope you guys enjoy it! Download here.”
Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Tutu has been active in the defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and racism. Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005,[1] and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
(via wikipedia)
I am off to see him speak this evening. I can hardly wait!
This no longer breaking news but it is none the less relevent. The law, creating a death penatly for gay people in Uganda, is still being considered by Parliament.
David Kato knew he was a marked man. As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, Mr. Kato had received a stream of death threats, his friends said. A few months ago, a Ugandan newspaper ran an antigay diatribe with Mr. Kato’s picture on the front page under a banner urging, “Hang Them.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his rough-and-tumble neighborhood. Police officials were quick to chalk up the motive to robbery, but members of the small and increasingly besieged gay community in Uganda suspect otherwise.
“David’s death is a result of the hatred planted in Uganda by U.S. evangelicals in 2009,” Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups, said in a statement. “The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.”
Ms. Kalende was referring to visits in March 2009 by a group of American evangelicals, who held rallies and workshops in Uganda discussing how to turn gay people straight, how gay men sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” intended to “defeat the marriage-based society.”
The Americans involved said they had no intention of stoking a violent reaction. But the antigay bill was drafted shortly thereafter. Some of the Ugandan politicians and preachers who wrote it had attended those sessions and said that they had discussed the legislation with the Americans.
from the Economist
More from NYT
Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
I am reading Yunus’ first book, Banker to the Poor, right now. Everyone interested in ending poverty should read this book. He turns a lot of age old ideas about banking, non-profit work and economic advancement on their heads and you are inspired to reconsider it all. His unrelenting determination to run Grameen Bank without caving to preconceived banking and social mores is inspiring. Read this book!
heyitseva:
“Seattle is so beautiful,” I thought as my plane landed yesterday afternoon. “I’m so happy to be home.” The air feels fresh and crisp and cool. All the places I recognize. My old friends.
Oh. Um, hello. What’s that? What is that?
It’s a man in Costco jeans and Teva’s with some kind of all-purpose raincoat tied around his waist.
Let me back on the plane. I love New York.
But that’s sort of part of our upper-left charm! That and our resistance to jaywalking even in the middle of a rainstorm; even when there are no cars for miles.
Americans did not become rich because of our rugged individualism or entrepreneurial drive or technical inventiveness. We were born rich. Ann Richards’ famous description of George Bush Sr. as an individual is equally applicable to the United States as a whole, “He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”
When asked to identify the single most important difference between the Old and New World, renowned historian Henry Steele Commager responded, in the New World your baby survived. The New World had an abundance of cheap land which meant the New World, unlike the Old World, was largely populated by self-reliant property owners. Coupled with a moderate climate and rich soil, immigrants could grow all the food needed for their families, livestock and horses. There was plenty of clean water and sufficient free or low cost wood to build and heat one’s house.
The fact that Americans could choose to live on a farm also gave them significant bargaining power with employers. As a result wages in the New World were much higher than in the Old World.
The United States also benefited enormously from tens of millions of immigrants who, through a Darwinian-like process of natural selection, were among the most driven and entrepreneurial and hardy of their native countries. And on the dark side of the immigration picture, we also benefited immensely from millions of involuntary immigrants who provided an army of unpaid labor for southern plantations.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Osama Bin Laden has been killed and his body layed to rest, but the struggle against extremism continues. The fight justice for all of Al-queda’s victims the world over persists. Let us be measured in our efforts, never becoming avengers blinded by our anger and our fear and let us never become callous about taking a life.
A wonderful and highly relatable look one mans struggle with the recession. This both made me laugh and almost brought me to tears.