Undernews: April 29, 2014

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Sea level rise threatens NYC's sea wall

Youth sue over climate change

Catholics more liberal than evangelical Protestants

Unsolved mysteries: Wall Street deaths

Overseas voters get to use ranked choice

The segregated staircase to the charter school

Some things to know about journalists

Behind closed doors Kerry mentions Israeli "apartheid"

There’s no business like show business (except news business)

Some other ways to limit the role of money in campaigns

Tales from the attic: Getting a permit for a DC block party

How the destruction of net neutrality could affect your computer

US population has lowest growth rate in 70 years

Local police concealing us of phone spying gear

Word: The charter school con

Chinese buying up American real estate

Much higher depression in industrialized nations

The mythology of immigration

The bleaching of San Francisco

Federal judges ignore their conflicts of interest

15% of Coloradans have bought pot since it was legalized

Articles on cooperatives

40% Of US workers now earn less than 1968 minimum wage

Jazz break: Django Reinhardt plays "Brazil"

Louis C.K. - My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

Average retirement age has risen three years in the past decade

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We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis Brandeis

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

Pocket paradigms
One of the problems with living around powerful myths is that you can start to feel personally responsible when they don't work out. If you don't lose weight, have better sex, kick your phobia, earn 20% annually in the stock market, or get the job you want, there are few around to tell you that such outcomes are pretty normal. Instead, we are surrounded by hucksters of success and salvation constantly luring us towards illusory certainty. If we succumb to these chimeras of profit and prophesy, if we accept the idea that God rightly favors the successful, the economy justly favors the lucky, and society fairly favors the glamorous, it can ultimately leave us with a sense of failure for no greater fault than being a normal human being.- Sam Smith

As a musician with more than 50 years of gigs behind me I know that among the many services of music is to say things we can't find the words for - perhaps not yet or perhaps not ever. As a writer with over 50 years of gigs behind me I am still often humbled by what a better job music often does of it. - Sam Smith

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