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Work has been picking up lately, so I have a few new bylines to share from September and October. These days I’m doing some content marketing work that doesn’t generate a byline, so what you’ll see here is all from Earth911.com, Parentmap magazine – and a book!
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It was another busy week, but I heard a few things I liked amid all the bustle. Namely Gorod, Carcharodon, and Kromestar.
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One of the main benefits of travel is learning what life is seeing for yourself that there are many different ways to exist. It can be hard, though, to know how much of your judgement to leave at home, and which values to hold on to wherever you are.
In a country that doesn’t have enough room for all of its people where human rights are not protected, how can we expect them to meet our animal care standards? At the same time, an animal in distress is no less distressing for that knowledge.
I knew better than to visit a zoo in China. But when you’re traveling with a 10-year-old, it’s nearly impossible to pass up a zoo. It was as bad as I expected. Even the goldfish pond was overcrowded.
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The Icelanders say everyone has a book in their belly, and they are better than the people of most nations at getting that book out. (Don’t think about the metaphor too much, though.) It makes sense that the annual Taste of Iceland would include a literary event. This year, author Andri Snær Magnason spoke at the Elliott Bay Book Company.
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Constitutional study for an exercise in applied democracy. In other words, voting in the November 6 midterm elections. For most of my lifetime, Americans have gotten all excited about the presidential election, and ignored literally every other opportunity to vote. This is not how democracy works (it’s not great for representative republics, either, so skip the semantics) and lately democracy isn’t working.
So. Have you heard the good news? About the mail-in ballot?