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Do not fuck with your wife's tomato plants. This is not a metaphor.

"Are you and the cloud engineers trying to ruin my tomato crop?"

Jeff Goodell faces off with the Garden Ranter herself.

http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2010/04/qa-with-author-jeff-goodell.html

One good anniversary today (though it also involves a bombing). Silent March in Nashville 4/19/60. A decisive moment.

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Exquisite glass-plate-negative mug shots from turn-of-the-(last)-century New Orleans.

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From Hidden from History: Unknown New Orleanians

http://nutrias.org/exhibits/hidden/hidden_contents.htm

Via Prison Photography, one of my new favorite blogs

http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/unknown-new-orleanians/

SNCC song: Freedom Singer Chuck Neblett leads a version of O Freedom

Download Memo.mp3

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Simon Johnson: "Our Pecora Moment"

Goldman used to stand for something that customers felt they could trust; now it is just a sophisticated way of ripping them off

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SNCC Late Night: Miss Shaw University

Mexico City Flashback: Hula Hooping with a 6 foot circle | Cocoon Tlatelolco

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SNCC pic: Everyone wants to have their picture made with Harry Belafonte

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SNCC pic: Three movement vets: Willie Ricks, Jesse Harris and MacArthur Cotton. Google 'em.

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SNCC pic: James Lawson brings it, in the Shaw gym*, where he helped create SNCC 50 yrs ago.

*Update: OK I checked with two people who were here in 1960, and Lawson's speech that year was not in the gym but a chapel. Not sure it's still standing.

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