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Blessed are the Idiots

John Holcroft

One of the pleasures of running a popular blog is in reading the many interesting emails my readers send me, out of the blue, asking questions, suggesting new topics, sharing their ideas, correcting my typos, and sometimes even sending in something that I can publish. And one of the least pleasant aspects of running a popular blog is in reading emails sent in by idiots. The world is full of idiots. While most of them seem to be of the quiet, unobtrusive kind, who might quietly sit in a corner eating a pot of glue, there are also quite a few belligerent, vicious, willfully ignorant idiots who spontaneously go on attack and start defecating in my in-box. Usually I ignore them.

Press Release—Project Unspell

Powerful New Tool Helps People Learn to Read and Write in English Without Years of Schooling (via SBWire)

Beverly Hills, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/09/2013 -- The creators of Project Unspell, a revolutionary software program that is currently being developed to help people learn to read and write English, are pleased to announce that they have launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo.com. Project Unspell offers an exciting new approach to circumventing the complexities of English spelling by providing a platform that allows people to learn proper pronunciation, read English text phonetically, and then easily convert it back into standard spelling.

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Adbusters Magazine Issue #186: Countdown to Catastrophe

The culture-jammers are at it again. The latest issue, on the newsstands now (if you happen to live some place progressive and/or liberal), is titled “The Big Ideas of 2047.” Spoiler alert! Here are the big ideas of 2047:

• Neoliberal economics is dead; growth is no longer God
• Progress is now a spiritual rather than a materialistic question
• Products are priced based on ecological payoff
• Usury (lending at interest) is taboo
• Individual rights are gone, replaced by individual responsibilities

This is the shape of the reborn, post-collapse world presented at the end of the issue.

A Home in Harmony with Nature? Why, that's illegal!

Pete Ryan

[This week's guest post is by Scott Erickson, author of The Diary of Amy, the 14-Year-Old Girl Who Saved the Earth, a fun little book to share with friends and family. It works, in a way that many other books don't. It tells the truth, in a way that's hard to ignore. And it gets away with it, because it is firmly in the category of humor/satire. This, it turns out, is necessary, because it turns out that any attempt to tell the truth without making it into a joke is automatically tagged as undemocratic, unpatriotic, elitist, sanctimonious, moralizing and overly negative...