Never Got Used To It http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/6020eaa098851570f6cc6dfed59a3ed2?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Never Got Used To It http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com Free Speech for Iranians, Not Residents of Jackson Heights! http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/free-speech-for-iranians-not-residents-of-jackson-heights/ http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/free-speech-for-iranians-not-residents-of-jackson-heights/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:42:59 +0000 Richard S. http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/?p=156 ]]>

Seems a few of my neighbors in Jackson Heights got arrested for using Twitter to help protesters, the same thing that the U.S. politicians and media were praising when it happened in Iran. Seems that these principles of freedom shouldn’t apply globally, just in vilified nations. This video nicely illustrates the contrast.

P.S. I don’t know anything about Twitter, nor do I have any curiosity about it. But it’s nice that people are using it this way.

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]]> http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/its-rough-in-here-but-its-rougher-out-there/feed/ 0 Richard S. Carl Sandburg, “The People, Yes” http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/carl-sandburg-the-peopleye/ http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/carl-sandburg-the-peopleye/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:12 +0000 Richard S. http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/?p=134 ]]>

This old poem contains so much truth for the present-day reality – almost too much to bear…

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]]> http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/woody-guthrie-i-aint-got-no-home-in-this-world-anymore/feed/ 0 Richard S. A Belated Farewell to Mary Travers http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/a-belated-farewell-to-mary-travers/ http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/a-belated-farewell-to-mary-travers/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:44:24 +0000 Richard S. http://nevergotusedtoit.wordpress.com/?p=121 ]]>

Farewell, Mary. Rest in peace.

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A song from Arabikkatha, a good film from Kerala that I watched last week.

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