#occupy on the ground

Well sports fans, I'm still sick -- somehow. Your guess is as good as mine. I've been directing what little energy I've had towards the completion of a few different long-term projects (and to answering email, Formspring questions, reader comments, etc.) so I'm once again short on a substantial update. Fortunately, shutterbug and patriot James is stepping in to give us a close-up look at the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been making the headlines lately. Most are thumbnails; click to see higher-res versions!

I've taken an interest in greywater systems ever since moving to the Quaker Farm. It's some interesting (AND EXTREMELY PRACTICAL) stuff.

"I'd occupy HER Wall Street," a friend commented when I showed him this photo. (Only he didn't say "Wall Street.")

"INFINITE GROWTH IS NOT POSSIBLE ON A FINITE PLANET."

"INFINITE GROWTH IS NOT POSSIBLE ON A FINITE PLANET."

This would be the Zuccotti Park you've heard so much about.

For the correlation between foreign wars and economic injustice, please see Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" address.

Correction: It was actually FDR.

However good its author's intentions, this sign is mistaken. The quote is from Whitman's "Song of Myself," which (as the title might suggest) is not about Lower Broadway. If Walt does have a poem about Lower Broadway to his name, I'm having a hard time finding it. There are these two pieces, but they're obviously not what the person drafting the sign had in mind.