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Following in the footsteps of former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, conservatives faced with these self-evident facts have taken to Fox News to cite the problems previous flat budgets have already created to call for a wholesale elimination of the National Weather Service. It’s a classic self-fulfilling sophistry of the right: Ignore the positive work an agency does, keep the agency’s budget flat so that its capabilities do not keep up with the times, then cite the agency’s reduced capabilities as justification to keep cutting it.
Anyone regret slashing National Weather Service budget now? (via wilwheaton)

“Jessie is very involved in what others are doing. Are they doing their work? Is their work touching his desk in anyway? Etc. Jessie crystal easily.”
-Ms. Thorton, my first grade teacher.
This was a note found in a bunch of stuff my mom had saved for me.

According to my friends and coworkers I haven changed much in 30 years.

Understanding doesn’t come free…The task is somewhere between awfully difficult and utterly hopeless for an isolated individual. But it’s feasible for anyone who is part of a cooperative community..Same holds for ‘intellectual self-defense.’ It takes a lot of self-confidence - perhaps more self-confidence than one ought to have - to take a position alone because it seems to you right, in opposition to everything you see & hear.
Noam Chomsky, On Staying Informed and Intellectual Self-Defense (via thepeoplesrecord)
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