Impishparrot

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• Website: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/amanda_lang/
• Location Georgia
• Party Often
• Politics Progressive, aligned with those who think religion ought to be left out of politics and politics out of religion...period.

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• Favorite Blogs Jane Voodoo Magic Money Lady - The Spider Emails: http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/spider-email-drawing-offered-as-bill-payment-486872
• Favorite Books Robert S. Root-Bernstein - "Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge;" Naomi Klein - "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism;" Sam Harris - "Letter To A Christian Nation" & "The End of Faith;" Howard Zinn - "A People's History of the United States;" Jon Stewart - "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction."
• Favorite Quotes "You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do." - UseNet; "I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get." -- Napoleon Bonaparte; "It is by logic we prove but by intuition we discover." - Jules Henri Poincare; "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig; "If the Government is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the distributor cap, and, whenever they can get their hands on the wheel, driving it straight into the nearest ditch and then, pointing to the wreckage as the tow truck backs up to it, saying, 'See, this proves that people were meant to walk.' And they do this so that they don't have to chip in on gas." - Lance Mannion; "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity." - Voltaire; "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - M.K. Ghandi; "We lost the fight, we didn't lose the argument." - Naomi Klein

Bio

PhD, VaTech '93. Retired research ethnographer. Currently resides in Georgia as a free-lance progressive activist and gardener. Veteran, US Army, E-5, 1976-79.