sunday linkin

Mennonites champion Buy Nothing Christmas:

"So, we enter the retail space, we put on our hats, we form a little semicircle two rows deep and start singing our song. And then we just launch into our songs, like 'profits here, profits there, profits everywhere,' you know those kind of things," said Aiden Enns, one of the singers and a veteran anti-consumption activist.

Heather Mallicks describes Guardian hatchet job on Chomsky. Holy fuck. The Guardian. We're far from Rupert Murdoch there.

'Telephone ladies' connect Bangladesh. I want to be a micro-lender when I grow up.

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I wish udupi palace made meal-sized masala dosas rather than snack size. They already charge meal-sized prices anyway. How expensive can potatoes and onion be anyway?!