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For years now Jim Stiles has been writing about the metamorphosis of Moab, Utah, from an isolated yet welcoming uranium mining village to a high end municipality: welcoming to streams of tourists yet unaffordable for mere mortals to live in. And focusing particularly on the economic boom that has made it so. The increases in two-to-four wheeled traffic and visitation that have accompanied this juggernaut have obliterated the treasured spiritual solitude that Arches and Canyonlands national parks once offered while leaving their physical beauty untouched (good for smart phone photographs).
As he says, the amenities economy has come…
To read more of Scott’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/green-vinyl-liberalism-adventures-in-erstwhile-change-by-scott-thompson/
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If the sandstone walls adjacent to the dam keep sloughing away, this is what you’ll find in a few hundred years. (from a 1980s drawing by Stiles)
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For once in my life as a Moab “Leave it Alone” recluse, I’m taking this opportunity to promote…yes, to PROMOTE! one of the great scenic attractions of Moab, the Colorado Plateau, the Southwest and, indeed, the World! Tribute is long overdue. And I stand humbly in his presence to praise the man who made it all happen…
A grateful community salutes Mr. Tom Arnold, the founder and curator of Tom Tom’s Volkswagen Museum–by his account, the most fantastic collection of VWs in the world.
Some ignorant fools have the temerity to call it junk…
To read more about TomTom and the VW Museum, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/tom-tom-vw-mechanicphilosophereconomistpilottroublemaker-by-jim-stiles/
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Nostalgia, from Greek nostos, a return, and algos, pain or grief. Somewhere in its long journey through languages the word, at least in American English, acquired a shift that turned pain and grief to something like sweet sorrow with an aura of wanting to return to the good old days. That was unacceptable of course, in an era of up-and-at-’em enterprise.
An antidote for such indulgences turned up: You can’t stop Progress. That’s interesting because progress is something quite new, intimately tied to the emergence of “market economy” (aka Capitalism) out of relatively static feudalism. By now, in these enlightened times, we are expected to know that the future is all and what it brings is the best we can expect of all possible worlds. The past is water under the bridge; we must move on…
To read more of Martin’s article, click the image below:
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2015/08/02/losing-solitude-the-importance-of-remembering-things-past-by-martin-murie/
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He’s been called a “morally bankrupt sociopath”, a “scumbag” a “garbage monster” and “everything that is wrong with capitalism.” And those are some of the tamer comments.
…His company recently acquired the rights to Daraprim. Developed in the 1950s, the drug is the best treatment for a relatively rare parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis. People with weakened immune systems, such as Aids patients, have come to rely on the drug, which until recently cost about $13.50 (£8.80) a dose.
But Mr Shkreli announced he was raising the price to $750 a pill. The more than 5,000% increase and his brash defence of the decision has made him a pariah among patients-rights groups, politicians and hundreds of Twitter users.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34331761?ocid=socialflow_facebook
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