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One evening when she was two, lying in bed waiting for her story, Greta started singing the words, "My tushy feel good, my vagina feel good." The tune was quite pleasant, and she sang it for about ten minutes, the same words, the same tune, over and over. Then, with one last "My tushy feel good, my vagina feel good," rising to a kind of crescendo of pure well-being, she looked up at me and said, "Know that song?"

The Poynter Institute’s excellent Diversity Digest, linking to rare and important journalism that covers underserved communities in non-formulaic ways, finally has a permanent URL.

Career women ‘rent’ wombs to beat hassle of pregnancy.

originally posted by xowie

World’s largest cave system discovered in China. (People like caves in China.) originally posted by xowie Update Here’s a bit of news from November 2006 about Soaring Dragon Cave, mentioned above.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all energy is freely and democratically provided by Nature, that utilities both public and private have no monopoly on the production and distribution of energy, that this century's monopolization of energy by utilities threatens the health of our environment and the very life of our planet.

• We, the Solar Guerrillas of this planet, therefore resolve to place energy made from sunshine, wind, and falling water on this planet's utility grids with or without permission from utilities or governments.
• We resolve to share this energy with our neighbors without regard for financial compensation.
• We further resolve that our renewable energy systems will be safe and will not harm utility workers, our neighbors, or our environment.

signed Solar Guerrillas of Planet Earth

"Hot Tuna" (Houttuynia cameleon). tricolor ground cover. All parts are edible. The gingery taste and herbal scent are good in oriental cooking and good for medicinal purposes too!

originally posted by xowie

Root beer reviews

The Pancake Galleries

Concrete ghost town.

originally posted by xowie

Beautiful essay on human consciousness.

originally posted by xowie

Edible Landscaping (Edible Landscaping Gardening Fruit Trees Apples Asparagus Bamboo Banana Blackberry Blueberry Che Cherry Citrus Chestnuts Chinquapin Coffee Cranberry Currants Dogwood Elderberry Figs Filberts Gingko Gooseberry Grapes Ground Cover Heartnuts Herbs Honeysuckle Hot Tuna Jostaberry Jujube Juneberry Kiwi Lingonberry Mayhaw Medlar Mulberry Passionflower Paw Paw Peaches Pears Pecan Persimmon Pine Nuts Plum Pomegranate Quice Raspberry Rhubarb Roses Shiitake Strawberry)

We bought a tea kettle today and the whistle turned out to be shrill and unpleasant. Should we learn to live with it, or endeavor to listen to 18 tea kettle whistles in hopes of finding a fun (or at least pleasant) one we’ll look forward to hearing?

"The good thing is, it's solid," he said, rapping the shed's metal walls. "It doesn't leak at all."

By any measure, Prince George's County Maryland police have shot and killed people at rates that exceed those of nearly any other large police force in the nation.

In 1995, police shot and wounded a man who allegedly tried to run over an officer with a Chevy Blazer. A jury acquitted the man of assault after he and other witnesses testified that the vehicle was not moving and that he had raised his hands to surrender when he was shot.

In 1997, police said they shot and killed a distraught college student because he attacked them with a knife. When his family sued years later, the officers admitted under oath that the dead man never touched the alleged weapon — which turned out to be a butter knife sitting on a kitchen counter.

In 1998, two officers said they fatally shot a Landover teenager in self-defense after he tried to grab their guns. In fact, records indicate he was shot 13 times in the back while he was unconscious and lying facedown on the floor.

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Looking around my kitchen, I see that I can make tarragon pills, salt pills, heavy cream pills and breadcrumb pills. You can pipe frosting into the capsules, or fill them with caramel sauce or melted chocolate, for a dessert you don't even have to taste.

If you’ve never been to Disinformation, it’s worth a visit.

Did I mean: let’s wig out at danko’s? No.

Map: The Colombian Connnection

When we see a red light or a stop sign, we can smile at it and thank it, because it is a bodhisattva helping us return to the present moment. The red light is a bell of mindfulness. We may have thought of it as an enemy, preventing us from achieving our goal. But now we know the red light is our friend, helping us resist rushing and calling us to return to the present moment where we can meet with life, joy and peace. Even if you are not the driver, you can help everyone in the car if you breathe and smile.

Gothic gardens, corpse compost, naturist naturalists, world wide weeding? The New York Times Magazine: Extreme Gardening

The dreaded summer newsletter.

originally posted by xowie

World New York: Most people who claim they live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, don’t.

Smoking pot and tripping your brains out.

originally posted by xowie

Fillmore West (once called Carousel) shut its doors on July 4, 1971.

originally posted by xowie