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International Women's Day and Mardi Gras

By Donal on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 8:55am | Social Justice

The Vandellas and Martha

International Women's Day coincides with Mardi Gras this year.

Interesting juxtaposition.

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Free Transit and Slugging

By Donal on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 11:05am | Technology

In What Does Free Really Cost, I discussed the problems of free parking. A few weeks ago, in Should Transit Be Free?,  Mark Brown, who has been documenting his car-free lifestyle at Car-Free Baltimore, discusses the many advocates of free transit, and summarizes their arguments:

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Lion in the Lobby

By Donal on Fri, 03/04/2011 - 10:11pm | Social Justice



Tonight on WEAA FM, the Anthony McCarthy show profusely lauded Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., a civil rights leader who was born 100 years ago. I had never heard of him, but McCarthy and his guest said no one surpassed Mitchell's work for civil rights, and that he was not well known, even among African-Americans, because so much of his contribution was behind closed doors.

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Right of Way

By Donal on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 8:44pm | Social Justice


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Most news outlets carried the story of the car plowing through a Critical Mass bike event in Porto Alegre, Brasil. 15 were injured, eight severely. There are some very graphic videos posted on youtube if you search for Massa Critica Porto Alegre.

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Looking For Trouble

By Donal on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 11:33am | Politics

In Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You, an OpEd for the NY Times takes on the idea that unions discourage exceptional workers. It strikes a few chords with me:

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Safe or Free?

By Donal on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 8:54pm | Politics



There were two parallel stories recently. In one, Lara Logan was assaulted by a crowd in Cairo.

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We Built This Country on Infrastructure

By Donal on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 11:44am | Politics



See more great art by Swedish artist Johan Thörnqvist at his website.

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Living in Interesting Times

By Donal on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 1:59pm | Politics

I was walking to the station this morning, and heard a rush of steps in the old creekbed next to the road. I looked over expecting a beaver and saw a startled doe, which was looking back at me across the swale. "Hello, deer," I said, then realized how odd that sounded. I'll be glad when my wife rejoins me next week. I find myself talking to plants, the TV, the sink.

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Big Boy Tennis

By Donal on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 11:45am | Sports



In between the Wisconsin protest coverage, Pale Rider and A Fistful of Dollars, I watched the ATP Marseille final, in which world #4 Robin Söderling came back from losing a close first set tiebreak to defeat world #21 Marin Čilić 6-7 (8-10), 6-3, 6-3. I know sportswriters try to vary the terminology, but I was surprised to read this headline in the UK Mirror:

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