Tensegrities

Hat tip to Fernando’sDesk for this story about a Swedish attempt to make the Bible more accessible via the genre of high design magazine.

Worth reading.

In case you’ve missed them, here are some powerful, short video documentaries about racism.

At this time of year, it’s hard not to pay attention to where our tax dollars are going. My heart breaks — and then turns outraged — when I see pictures like this. TrueMajority first put out the “Oreo cookie movie” a couple of years ago, but it’s very much worth checking out again. The more we can help people see that government budgets are moral documents, the more we can take a stab at changing them.

I’ve never been so grateful for the New Yorker magazine, as when I’m reading various pieces about Iraq and this so-called “war on terrorism.” Their long-form journalism makes it possible to gain a much more complex and nuanced view of what is happening there, and this month they have an article about Sabrina Harman, the woman who took so many of the iconic photos of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. She’s been punished by the Army in all sorts of ways since, but this article really makes clear how torture was standard policy at Abu Ghraib. It ALSO makes clear how the conditions at Abu Ghraib intentionally and deliberately evoked precisely the kind of behavior she exhibited.

As more and more evidence comes out about this administration’s deliberate and intentional use of torture, articles like this help to point out how easily we human beings succumb to evil, how easily we cooperate with and ultimately perpetuate it, how much Sabrina Harman could be me or you or any of us.