July 30, 2010
UTNE DAILY

Stop Eating Meat or I’ll Kick Your Ass

Punk rocker John Joseph’s new book on vegetarianism is called Meat Is for Pussies …

Insurance Companies Profit From Fallen Soldiers

It just adds insult to injury to learn that insurance companies have set the system up so they make a profit by holding onto payouts...

The Good Life for Adjunct Faculty in Canada

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the way Vancouver Community College cares for its adjunct faculty....

Modified SB 1070 Goes Into Effect; How Federal Law Paved the Way

Although a judge weakened the state law, several problematic provisions remain in place....

Subversively Silencing Subwoofers

It’s time for a brilliant inventor to come up with the Subwoofer-B-Gone hoodie …

Cargo Bikes: How Load Can You Go?

These amazing machines are stretching the limits of muscle-powered urban transportation …

Here Come the Inception Parodies

A review of four attempts to reimagine Christopher Nolan’s dreamscape action flick Inception....

Why Would a Writer Hate One of His Own Books?

Author Tracy Kidder talks with The Bygone Bureau about how to make it as a writer, the creative process, and his embarrassment over his first book....

A Call for an End to Primpy Lawns

“I’m going public with my challenge to primpy lawns,” writes Reggie McLeod in his editor’s note in the July-August Big River magazine …

Why Afghans Don't Need WikiLeaks

The shortest and most important thing you'll read on the WikiLeaks documents...



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