give U.S. a break

All Work, No Play
Vacation time shouldn’t be the privilege of a few, but the right of all
By Silja J.A. Talvi

Rest, my child

RADICAL REST
by Matt Carmichael

The solution to sleepiness is sleep. When the Emperor of Persia asked his Sufi master how best to renew his soul, he was told to sleep as much as possible because “The longer you sleep, the less you will oppress!” We sacrifice sleep for more time, but that time becomes less fulfilling. Sleep was the natural way to spend the dark hours, which we now fill with bland TV.

WAL-MART BLACK FRIDAY DEATH

Our destructive love of stuff

by Leonard Pitts Jr.

those crazy americans

Americans Are Crazy Workaholics -- It's Time We Brought More Balance to Our Lives
By Arianna Huffington

KunstlerKast

This is one of my favorite podcasts:

theKunstlerKast
The tragic comedy of suburban sprawl
weekly interviews with James Howard Kunstler,
author of The Geography of Nowhere

A recent episode reminded me of one of my favorite Barack Obama quotes from 1990:
"I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me."