10x10.
On a lighter, design-related note, this is cool.
Topic
current affairs
A collection of 105 issues
Stop.
originally uploaded by Bright Tal.
This was posted with this picture on Flickr:
Israel is trying to bring Lebanon to its knees. Israel is trying to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese spirit. Israel is trying to turn Lebanese against each other. Israel is trying to turn us into animals scrounging
Israel in Lebanon.
I like to read Amanda’s blog. It’s very informative and thought-provoking, even though I may not always see eye-to-eye on everything she posts.
In terms of the Iranian/Syrian problem of backing Hamas and Hezbollah, I read an interesting commentary in the New York Times by Ted Koppel.
Red shoes.
originally uploaded by Girlabroad.
I want shoes like this! Oh. Wait. I had shoes like this, but Mies ate them….
Anyway, I’m feeling kind of flat right now. I have so much to do by next Wednesday, but I’m not motivated at all. And now I have to
This is good news.
Soda Distributors to End Most School Sales
By MARIA NEWMAN
Published: May 3, 2006
Some of the country’s biggest beverage companies have agreed to stop selling sugary soft drinks and other high calorie beverages in the nation’s schools, in an initiative announced today by former President Bill Clinton
On Christmas cards, #MeToo, and feminism.
I am sitting at my kitchen bar with a lemon Perrier bottle next to my laptop on faux marble counters. Scattered around are Christmas cards I just opened since it is Christmas Eve and I really should open them before tomorrow. I gave up sending my own Christmas cards years
Vive la France! Or why I fly the French flag.
Why would I go to the funeral of a friend or relative but not all of the funerals happening in my city that day? Why would I visit my own sick child in the hospital but not the hundreds of other sick ones, too? Why do I, an American, fly
On N.W.A., truth in journalism, and free speech.
I don’t know why I am so interested in social justice. I don’t know why I am so sympathetic to the plight of African-Americans. I think it started when I was in grad school and read Random Family while researching the War on Drugs for a design project.
When you're in love with a black baby.
She got on the Number 13 at 2nd and Galer. A white woman and a little black boy. You don’t see that combination very often in Seattle, let alone on top of Queen Anne. His cherubic, brown cheeks. Bright yellow jacket. Baby hoodie with khakis and little black Nikes.
White sugar. White backlash.
I think Ferguson could use a little Nina Simone right now. Less backlash, more sugar.
Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina. The sixth of eight children in a poor family, she began playing piano at age three; the first song she learned was “God Be With