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Aras

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cyni

About Me

law student
Find Your Inner Human Rights Defender!

My Interests

politics, not freezing in Minnesota winters, kittens, writing, reading, 89.3, mojitos, tofu, Chile, Cuba, ipod.

I'd like to meet:

Johnny Depp, Michelle Bachelet, Gloria Steinem (for more than her autograph), Al Franken (for more than 5 seconds), Hillary Clinton, my cousin's baby in Arizona.

Music:

Batanga Pop Radio Batanga.com Batanga Widgets - Share Me

Movies:

Cold Comfort Farm, 80s movies, Forrest Gump, The Boxer, LOTR, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bridget Jones' Diary, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Casablanca. Anything: Jimmy Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Guest (minus Spinal Tap), John Cusack.

Books:

Cien anos de soledad, La casa de los espiritus, Chronicles of Narnia, The Grapes of Wrath, The Bell Jar, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Heroes:

hippie liberal types

My Blog

Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

The New York TimesJanuary 27, 2008The WorldRethinking the Meat-GuzzlerBy MARK BITTMANA sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store  something cheap, pl...
Posted by Aras on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:41:00 PST

Who Do We Vote For This Time Around?

A Letter from Michael MooreJanuary 2, 2008Friends,A new year has begun. And before we've had a chance to break our New Year's resolutions, we find ourselves with a little more than 24 hours before the...
Posted by Aras on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:57:00 PST

The Golden Compass

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Posted by Aras on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:49:00 PST

The Golden Compass

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Posted by Aras on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:50:00 PST

School segregation on the rise

By Matthew Bigg 2 hours, 8 minutes agoATLANTA (Reuters) - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court dec...
Posted by Aras on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:44:00 PST

Walter F. Mondale: The man behind the curtain

StarTribune.comWalter F. Mondale: The man behind the curtainIn the decades before 9/11, the vice presidency was made relevant and respectable. Dick Cheney took that and ran roughshod with it.Walter F....
Posted by Aras on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:45:00 PST

U.S. savior: Foreign doctors

The arrests of the physicians in connection with the attempted British bombings will no doubt bring new scrutiny and calls to stem the tide of these immigrants. But the United States has a growing sho...
Posted by Aras on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:34:00 PST

Screw you, global warming

Will Steger: Concerts for the Earth struck a quite reasonable chord Actions large and small matter, and if celebrities are willing to exercise their vocal cords for the cause, all the better.Will Steg...
Posted by Aras on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:10:00 PST

How many members of the Bush Administration does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: TEN. 1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed; 2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed; 3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the li...
Posted by Aras on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:54:00 PST

Minnesota kids are not taken care of by our government

Latest KIDS COUNT Data Book Finds More Minnesota ChildrenLiving in Poverty or Without Health Care CoverageSt. Paul, MN  The number of Minnesota children without health insurance has climbed to 79,000...
Posted by Aras on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:49:00 PST