February 2012
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Compassion Fatigue →
neuropedia:
Compassion fatigue (also known as a secondary traumatic stress disorder) is a condition characterised by a gradual lessening of compassion over time. It is common among trauma victims and individuals that work directly with trauma victims. It was first diagnosed in nurses in the 1950s. Sufferers can exhibit several symptoms including hopelessness, a decrease in experiences of...
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November 2011
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September 2011
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s...”
– Albert Camus, “Reflections on the Guillotine”
August 2011
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“There is nothing unusual about Governor Rick Perry. Uneducated fools can be...”
– Richard Dawkins (via kateoplis)
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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You don't go on Facebook for a week:
Expectations:
Reality:
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USA #5 top executer in the world behind China,... →
That’s some very prestigious company. U-S-A!! U-S-A!! Ugh.
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“I’m glad I didn’t have to fight in any war. I’m glad I...”
– Tom Hanks
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March 12, 2010
One year ago today, I lost my dad to cancer. I still want to scream. I still want to cry. I still want him back. But all I can do is share part of the obituary I wrote for him. This ran in the Cedarburg News Graphic the week of March 14-20, 2010:
Ken had a generous, caring and serene nature that was immediately felt by everyone who met him. A lover, not a fighter, he was expert at defusing...
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“The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.”
– Noel Coward
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“These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland … They remind...”
– Ronald Reagan, Labor Day Address 1980
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What's Wrong With America
For the last five years, I’ve lived on the outskirts of suburban supersprawl. North of me lie fields of corn and soybeans, fences and silos, little signs advertising the pesticides farmers are using this year. South on the same roads lie immense billboards, Targets and Walmarts and Home Depots, Starbucks and Burger Kings, housing developments with million dollar properties (Reduced! Now...
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February 2011
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“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and...”
– Robert Heinlein
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy
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Like Butta
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That's Football, Guys. That's All It Is.
I’ll by crying today. Weeping openly. Not because I’m a lifelong Packers fan, not because they’re in the Superbowl, not for the schmaltzy 5 million dollar Kay Jewelers commercial or the soaring pregame musical scores, not for Donald Driver’s last game or for Aaron Rodger’s first Superbowl, not even because I imagine Brett at home in Kiel, sighing heavily, full of...
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January 2011
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“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“There is no such thing as a stupid question. Many people say that, but it really...”
– Carl Sagan
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Staircase of the Day
The words to “Hello, I Love You” by The Doors printed on some stairs in NYC.