June 2008 | On Our Radar
Worth Repeating
“You’re not using time, you’re generating time.”
—Enviro blogger Alan Durning referencing a British study that showed although walking to a destination takes longer, it adds years to your life so you actually come out ahead.
(NYTimes.com, 4/10)
“Without the kooks and insulters and spray-can taggers, Wikipedia would just be the most useful encyclopedia ever made. Instead, it is a fast-paced game of paintball.”
—Nicholson Baker on the controlled chaos that results when anybody can be editor. (The Guardian, 4/10)
“College students on any campus in this country are easy pickings.”
—Drug Policy Alliance’s Margaret Dooley-Sammuli criticizing the recent DEA undercover investigation of San Diego State students that resulted in 96 drug busts. (LA Times, 5/07)
“The only way to transform our enemy to become our friend is dialogue, respect. That’s a way of compassion.”
—HH the Dalai Lama before the Seattle Seeds of Compassion Conference. (AP, 4/11)
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