Procrastadabbler

If an industry is doing some good, but the good they are doing is in the spirit of making them money, is it still doing good? Is a show like Extreme Makeover exploiting the lives of struggling people even as it “helps” them?
I would like to know the tax ramifications of being helped by Extreme [...]

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I read the NYTimes online. Every morning, I receive an email with selected headlines (I selected the categories when I subscribed). Some mornings I scan the headlines and don’t find too much of interest. It could be my mood, or the news itself. On other days, I find quite a bit that I want to [...]

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The NYTimes has a rather disturbing article today about the “Mom Job.” The Mom Job is plastic surgery to remove the physical results of pregnancy. It is a package deal that includes breast lifts (with our without implants), liposuction, and a tummy tuck. That alone is disturbing that society on the whole and many women [...]

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One of my greatest weaknesses is that I get bored easily. I don’t mean that I can’t entertain myself on a long summer afternoon. I’m actually quite good at that. What I mean is that once I reach a certain level of mastery of something or understanding of something, I get tired of doing it [...]

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“A liberal is someone who leaves the room when a fight breaks out.”
Martin Espada in “All Things Censored: The Poem NPR Doesn’t Want You to Hear” published in Writing Creative Nonfiction Edited by Carolyn Forche & Philip Gerard.
I remembered what it was I wanted to blog about. Politics and teaching. Do teachers have [...]

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