So, the Next Blog link on Blogger is meant to take you to blogs like mine (if you like mine, heh) that should spark your interest. What does the link actually do after parsing my posts? It cycles between an animal shelter (no problem so far), and an anti-animal rights blog (sigh), and nothing else. Really, Google? Why bother parsing my content at all, in this case? Edit: it looks like this is fixed now. Sheesh.
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Herself
Herself…
Haley Gibby’s solo debut – what I’m listening to
I can’t get “This Is How It Goes” out of my head – and a preview of the whole album is up on Soundcloud, wooty. Produced by Kaskade, so it’s tailor-made for me, heh. Brilliant, brilliant debut.
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama:
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action. It really is a source of wonder. There is no greater source of help and happiness. The capacity to devote yourself to the welfare of others yields otherwise unobtainable power and potential for good. Generate great compassion and you become a friend of the world and a companion of the warm-hearted. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108551811075711499995/posts/Z6NK94EFqzJ
On Selfishness
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama:
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others’ happiness. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108551811075711499995/posts/TxoBJPwzuAc
Peaceful Mind
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama:
The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108551811075711499995/posts/h1CTBMc6t8M
Parallels – City of Stars
So, SO good. What I’m listening to lately. I couldn’t get into Crystal Castles, but this reminds me of every synth act I loved in the 80’s; the melody is heartbreakingly sad, paired with poppy synths – the sort of irony I expect from the Pet Shop Boys. You want this.
To All Occupy Wall Street Participants
This. This. A thousand times, this. Read the whole thing over on Reddit. Go. Now. Seriously. Then show up tomorrow in cop camouflage.
To all Occupy Wall Street participants, here is the key to your victory… (for serious)
submitted 8 hours ago by HotKarlMarx
Guys, listen. Here’s the deal.
I love you guys with every shred of my hard-left leaning heart. But I think you might be doing something wrong. Here is one thing that can help you.
Tomorrow, wear a polo and khakis
Seriously. polos and khakis. Every time you guys DO finally get some fucking press, it’s a scrawny dude with dreads in a ratty t-shirt. You’re going big here, dress it. Tomorrow, Polo shirt and Khakis. (more…)
(via @wilw)
Nathan Winograd: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Nathan Winograd, on the lies used to receive grant funding (requiring that no healthy, adoptable animals be killed, the Maddie’s Fund grant) for kill shelters, that still kill roughly half of the animals they take in:
We know it is a lie because as the number of animals killed who are claimed to be healthy dropped to zero, the number of so-called “untreatable” animals killed has increased. For example, the number of animals killed deemed “untreatable” increased from 576 to a whopping 3,486. Likewise, the number of “treatable” animals killed also spiked, from 31,568 to 37,888. Maricopa County officials also excluded 4,107 animals who they claim were killed at the request of the people surrendering them. Their lives were not counted in reporting results, the statistics—and the animals—swept under the rug. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: pounds and “shelters” do not create No Kill by killing as they always have, but simply recategorizing animals as “unadoptable” or “untreatable” and then killing them. We achieve No Kill by actually saving their lives. In fact, the latest report is an analysis in failure.
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=6254
“Shelters” that take in grants from the no-kill movement that haven’t bothered to change their kill rates one bit? This is the very essence of our myopic approach to animal “welfare.” Donate to no-kills. Adopt from traditional “shelters.” Do not buy from breeders. Ever.
Friends of Animals | In My View | Spring 2011
Priscilla Feral, President of Friends of Animals, writes a quarterly column in FOA’s magazine, Actionline. The Spring 2011 column is especially worth a read. Feral draws apt connections between the fetishism of guns and violence endemic in our culture and our culture’s use/oppression of nonhumans.
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