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on Carrie Brownstein and Portlandia
Been in Portland 20 and love it. One moment I've seen many times, is the cafe with baristas who play their own preferred music - a bit too loud, while customers are trying to talk. Especially ironic when some of the coffee drinking customers are older and not 'alt'. Do these serviers not notice the room?
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Lauren Kessler
I remember reading in a Buddhist book, that 'your children are your best teachers'. I have always liked that idea. And I can say that my own teen boys go the extra mile to help me learn patience.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Spore to Spoon: Mushrooms in Oregon
Six of us go mushroom gathering (my son insists you do not 'hunt' a mushroom) each fall. We have done so for four years. One year Vicki hurt her foot and stayed back at our beautiful spot and prepared a picnic. We've been picnicking and mushroom gathering every since.
posted 2 years, 6 months ago
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on No-Fly List
But it is very, very difficult and expensive - and onerous for our whole country. And doing this DOES limit the personal rights of all of us Americans - especially the legal rights of honest, law-abiding Muslims and other people that may look 'suspect'.
The REAL issue is the poverty in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, because that poverty creates the environment for terrorism to grow. How desperate they must be for murder and suicide to become sellable options!
In my humble opinion, all Western and well-off countries are better off to put resources into schools, food, farming and the like in order to shift the whole dynamic and stop the growth and 'progress' of the destructive and anti-Western, fundamentalist Islam factions. And we also need to honor the fact that most Muslims are not blood-thirsty anti-Western nut-jobs, but are regular, caring, family folks like you and me. (Except they wear different clothes.)
posted 2 years, 10 months ago
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on All About Memes
My son showed me this and I forwarded it to several others.
http://playingforchange.com/journey/introduction
This is a great way to pass along ideas and unique I think in the way it can cross over cultures, age differences, countries...
This one happens to be warm and heart-felt...
posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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on Paper, Plastic or What?
I bundle my plastic bags into a big ball and return them to the market for recycling. In that form, I'll bet I could toss them in the recycling bin and they would not clog the machinery.
I am all for real and substantial progress on this and similar issues, but I am with the listeners that think this is.... less than a pressing issue.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on Kicker Talk
For God's keep the kicker.
We've already incurred the pain of having the taxes taken out.
Save it for a Rainy Day Fund, or spend it - but please get the most bang-for-our bucks.
And by the way, how much would it cost the state to send out kicker checks?
-DA
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on Your State of the Union
The state of union is terrible: jobs and the economy, ongoing war and global political unrest, corporate and special interests influence in policy-making, a dysfunctional and efficient health insurance system and the same for taking care of our vets - and that is just the beginning.
And I think President Obama is doing great.
The fact that he is taking a lot of heat right now is in direct correlation to the extent that he attempting to guide this country through real and needed change.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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on The Inner Lives of Boys
Boys are barraged by images and role models (often personal - certainly in the media) – that display two extremes: wimpy and passive, or macho and aggressive. Winner… or loser. They are encouraged in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to be strong and to be winners, lest they be seen as the opposite. The middle ground of ‘assertive’ – strong and open, is less often demonstrated or modeled. But this is where we need our boys to be.
(ex-boy, and father of two boys)
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on Rx: Personal Values
Insurance companies prioritize profits over care if they can - and public companies not only do that, but have a fiduciary obligation to do so. We should not be surprised that these companies protect their turf, vilify alternatives, and do anything they can to protect and increase profits - that is their charter - their 'prime directive'.
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Virginia Euwer Wolff
After hearing today's show with Virginia Euwer Wolff, I found myself wondering if the author would enjoy using Pandora (music web site) for her morning writing time. Pick a favorite piece and enjoy (of course still no substitute for a real OPB host)
Enjoyed the show and interview.
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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on The Efficiency Factor
I get really frustrated by what I see as the lack of perspective.
Yes I recycle, and I compost and I use the long-life bulbs. But I know it's tiny and hardly helping. And I'm afraid it instills a false sense of getting-things-done.
What does it say when whole business models are built on generating waste because waste = profit (ink cartridges) and when folks in the summer in the hot Southwest use their clothing dryers when it's 100 degrees out? I've watched an energy-efficiency 'expert' on a morning TV show - followed by an advertisement for a little thing that makes your room smell better - and YOU HAVE TO PLUG IT IN!
posted 4 years ago
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on Coming Back From War
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