Some links for your Sunday reading:

I wrote earlier this week about mass messages of fear. Here’s a story about how fear affects how we raise our children. Check out the whole blog for lots of good tidbits about raising kids without fear.

Another person dead who shouldn’t be - at the hands of a cop. (Via)

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A collection of links that are interesting to me, but didn’t make the cut for full-blown commentary:

Have you read the article Deadly Force at the Washington Post? Read the whole thing, every single word, and think about who the victims are in the War on Drugs. (Answer: all of us.)
An interesting Zero Waste project in [...]

Random bits of interesting things I’ve seen online, that aren’t going to get a whole post devoted to them, so it’s time to kick them out of my bookmarks:

My state, Georgia, has some of the worst laws regarding people branded as “sex offenders” (a phrase I put it quotes because it’s full of many implications).

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