Nov
10
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other.
It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash.
The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
~John Berger
Nov
2
Daylight Saving Time Controversy
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Why Arizona has no Daylight Saving Time
The state of Arizona listened to the Wise Old Indian.
When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said,
“Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”
