Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Happy Birthday Elizabeth Edwards!
Today is the birthday of one of the coolest women ever. Ironically, she is also one of the warmest women ever as well.
My friend, MaryAnn took this picture of Elizabeth and me discussing a passage in a book.
My friend, MaryAnn took this picture of Elizabeth and me discussing a passage in a book.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
Fail the Magic Internet Meme
"Fail" is the name of a popular internet meme where users superimpose the word "fail" onto embarrassing or compromising photos.[1][2][3] The G4 television channel has a web feature called "Epic Fail" that denotes major gaffs in popular culture - a mainstream play on the meme.[4] Fail Dogs, an animal version, made the front page of Digg in February, 2008.- Wikipedia
Friday, May 30, 2008
Icky War Crimes Make Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars
Several years ago, I wrote about today's man of the hour, and now, I wonder if he didn't take my hint...
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Icky War Crimes Make Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars
Written by anonyMoses
Published November 10, 2005
White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
It must be tough being an apologist for war criminals and their icky need to torture, especially now that they can no longer claim proprietorship of the so-called American mainstream, which they polluted and left for dead in their race to reach the right fringe of Hell.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
America should be courageous enough to cough up its own hairballs when they threaten the flow of air. And yet our air is filled with hairballs and nutballs, all hyperventilating shrill emotions, as if amplitude will serve to persuade. But as George Bernard Shaw once observed, "Not intelligent, only opinionated." Yet some people guzzle opinion as if it were knowledge, thus real food. Only when they die of malnutrition might they realize that one has to eat something more substantial than chicken. Faux chicken.
bla bla bla...
the rest is here.
_____________________________
Icky War Crimes Make Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars
Written by anonyMoses
Published November 10, 2005
White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
It must be tough being an apologist for war criminals and their icky need to torture, especially now that they can no longer claim proprietorship of the so-called American mainstream, which they polluted and left for dead in their race to reach the right fringe of Hell.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
America should be courageous enough to cough up its own hairballs when they threaten the flow of air. And yet our air is filled with hairballs and nutballs, all hyperventilating shrill emotions, as if amplitude will serve to persuade. But as George Bernard Shaw once observed, "Not intelligent, only opinionated." Yet some people guzzle opinion as if it were knowledge, thus real food. Only when they die of malnutrition might they realize that one has to eat something more substantial than chicken. Faux chicken.
bla bla bla...
the rest is here.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Bugliosi: George Bush's Unseemly Response to the Suffering He Has Caused
How has George Bush reacted to the hell he created in Iraq, to the thousands of lives that have been lost in the war, and to the enormous and endless suffering that the survivors of the victims -- their loved ones -- have had to endure?
READ ON
READ ON
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
CHEAP, SAFE HOUSE DESIGNED FOR QUAKE-PRONE AREAS
When thinking about the recent earthquake in China, and the tragedy of Myanmar, I was reminded of the work of an old friend from Cambridge who was working on the problem of affordable, safe, mud-based houses, boats and such, at MIT. At the time he was showing, in his thesis, how one could use mud and chickenwire to create said homes and boats. I think he already knew what the future was going to bring.
Doing a simple search, I found this related article on some of his more recent work, which needs to be embraced and multiplied.
EXCERPT:
Mr Sultan told Dawn that he had designed mud houses that could withstand a 8.5 intensity earthquake - one point higher than the October tremor which measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale.
Mud houses could be highly resistant to seismic forces if modern architectural techniques are used in their construction.
“Iran did nothing good by putting a ban on building mud houses after the Bam earthquake. I can prove that Iran’s decision was unwise,” he said, claiming that his building techniques would be best for Iran, Turkey and other countries located in dangerous seismic zones.
All the building materials - mud being the basic - required for the house he designed are indigenously produced and could be put together simply. That makes the construction cost of the mud house very low, he said.
MORE
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Liveblogging the Dance of the Davids : The American Idol Finale
I agree with Jeffrey Feldman. Enough with the war metaphors.
So tonight, there is no battle. There is a dance. Davids like to dance.
Davids dance with all their might.
The duet of the Davids was the first good thing of the night. The first piece really made you think that someone was torturing the contestants into banal atavistic conformity.
Seal did a duet with the lovely lady I had banked on to win. Hot.
Hotter than the Davids, frankly, but what the heck. They will all make in excess of one hundred dollars.
Jason Castro did a lovely version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelluia, or however you spell it. His best ever.
More banal conformity. Less pipes and timbrils. Less wild ecstasy.
...and Donna Summers, who sees, nay, looks, fantastic!
What brand of oatmeal is SHE eating? She spares the segment from dying a cruel death.
I don't approve of some of the dancing. No place for toilet humor.
Oh well, now Donna is leading the caravanserai down into the pit of forgotten disco.
Where is Radiohead when you need him? Does George know no mercy?
I don't believe this. A commercial!! Were we forewarned? No!!!
Australia's Michael Johns and Ireland's Carly Smithson are doing "The Letter". Not exactly Gorecki's Third, but not bad either. Certainly not evil...although at one point it looked like they were looking upon one another's genital regions, or therabouts. Playbacks will tell.
Jimmy Kimmel jokes about tipping Sanjaya, who is laughing in the audience, then rips into Simon, who is valiantly defended by host Seacrest who compares Kimmel to a Ship or cocktail lounge comedian. ABC vs FOX.
Ryan, I mean Bryan Adams then appears out of nowhere, thinking he has been everywhere.
So far, it is very, very, very, very, very, day before the day before yestermillennium. Cut to ape man.
The Davids are thinking: "Get me the Hell outta here!" and "Here, you can have it!"
Jordin Sparks in Disney World.
David Cook does "Sharp Dressed Man" with ZZ Top. Talk about facial, hair!
These fellers have been growing since they were born practically, and were never told that it was quality, not quantity...although the Supreme Court is likely to reverse that decision.
Wow! Graham Nash and Brooke White singing "Teach your Children".
Not a dry ice in the how.
Times passes.
I'll tell ya what. If something interesting happens, I will rouse and write.
hell, it's free.
Can't believe we're only halfway through...
Well lucky me! What a moving and timely performance by George Michael...who really does know how to pick 'em. Sorry to say I don't know the name of it, but I do know that it will take on a life of its own, and become a major hit, if it isn't already.
Paula was in tears, as were a goodly number of other bipeds in the vicinity. Hundreds!
OK...results...
David...COOK!
Yay! Justice is served.
So tonight, there is no battle. There is a dance. Davids like to dance.
Davids dance with all their might.
The duet of the Davids was the first good thing of the night. The first piece really made you think that someone was torturing the contestants into banal atavistic conformity.
Seal did a duet with the lovely lady I had banked on to win. Hot.
Hotter than the Davids, frankly, but what the heck. They will all make in excess of one hundred dollars.
Jason Castro did a lovely version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelluia, or however you spell it. His best ever.
More banal conformity. Less pipes and timbrils. Less wild ecstasy.
...and Donna Summers, who sees, nay, looks, fantastic!
What brand of oatmeal is SHE eating? She spares the segment from dying a cruel death.
I don't approve of some of the dancing. No place for toilet humor.
Oh well, now Donna is leading the caravanserai down into the pit of forgotten disco.
Where is Radiohead when you need him? Does George know no mercy?
I don't believe this. A commercial!! Were we forewarned? No!!!
Australia's Michael Johns and Ireland's Carly Smithson are doing "The Letter". Not exactly Gorecki's Third, but not bad either. Certainly not evil...although at one point it looked like they were looking upon one another's genital regions, or therabouts. Playbacks will tell.
Jimmy Kimmel jokes about tipping Sanjaya, who is laughing in the audience, then rips into Simon, who is valiantly defended by host Seacrest who compares Kimmel to a Ship or cocktail lounge comedian. ABC vs FOX.
Ryan, I mean Bryan Adams then appears out of nowhere, thinking he has been everywhere.
So far, it is very, very, very, very, very, day before the day before yestermillennium. Cut to ape man.
The Davids are thinking: "Get me the Hell outta here!" and "Here, you can have it!"
Jordin Sparks in Disney World.
David Cook does "Sharp Dressed Man" with ZZ Top. Talk about facial, hair!
These fellers have been growing since they were born practically, and were never told that it was quality, not quantity...although the Supreme Court is likely to reverse that decision.
Wow! Graham Nash and Brooke White singing "Teach your Children".
Not a dry ice in the how.
Times passes.
I'll tell ya what. If something interesting happens, I will rouse and write.
hell, it's free.
Can't believe we're only halfway through...
Well lucky me! What a moving and timely performance by George Michael...who really does know how to pick 'em. Sorry to say I don't know the name of it, but I do know that it will take on a life of its own, and become a major hit, if it isn't already.
Paula was in tears, as were a goodly number of other bipeds in the vicinity. Hundreds!
OK...results...
David...COOK!
Yay! Justice is served.
Friday, May 16, 2008
"I stand before you today...to declare...that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,"
"I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq...I cannot deploy to Iraq, carry a weapon and not be part of the problem," - Matthis Chiroux
Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told a half-dozen US lawmakers and scores of people who packed into a small hearing room of "lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis."
He spoke of the psychologically fragile men and women who return from Iraq, to find little help or treatment offered from official circles.
Some 300,000 of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from the psychological traumas of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, an independent study showed last month.
Officials take "hard facts and slice them into small pieces to make them presentable to the secretary of state or the president -- and all with the intent of furthering the occupation of Iraq," Goldsmith added.
[excerpted from HERE]
Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told a half-dozen US lawmakers and scores of people who packed into a small hearing room of "lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis."
He spoke of the psychologically fragile men and women who return from Iraq, to find little help or treatment offered from official circles.
Some 300,000 of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from the psychological traumas of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, an independent study showed last month.
Officials take "hard facts and slice them into small pieces to make them presentable to the secretary of state or the president -- and all with the intent of furthering the occupation of Iraq," Goldsmith added.
[excerpted from HERE]
Friday, May 09, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
United Airlines and FedEx Donate Plane to Create a New Flying Eye Hospital
Orbis International is bringing sight to the world
CHICAGO -- ORBIS International, a nonprofit development organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide, today announced it will replace its current DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital with a DC-10 Series 30 freighter. United Airlines , with the support of FedEx Corp. , is donating the airplane to ORBIS. The $2 million donation is based on the plane's estimated value and being funded equally by United and FedEx.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
For what it's worth: Who will win American Idol?
Syesha Mercado
Syesha Mercado will win. Best all 'round. Sexiest.
David Cook will come in second. Most original, intellectual and hard working.
David Archuleto, third. A slightly lesser David Cook.
Brooke White might be fourth, although I think she should have already been kicked off. I suspect she has a strong fan base who vote early and often. It is, after all, only Fox.
Jason Castro will probably be next to go, although it ought to be Brooke, who has issues.
Syesha and David Cook are a cut above the rest.
Now...back to important things.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Bush Challenges Limbaugh, Polluters on Climate Change
Conservatives Accused of Slowheadedness
WASHINGTON -- Lame Duck, George W. Bush, in a rare instance of lucidity, gained the insight and understanding that human beings, while alive, create heat. He is now claiming that his global war on terrorism, is helping reduce the temperature of the earth, by reducing the number of living people.
"That is laughable!" says Moby K. Dick of Science Faction Fime, whatever that is. "MOAB did more to trigger the final phase of this crisis than any other event, including his trumpeted loss of life."
Meantime the Buddhic drone of Diane Rehm echoes through my apterous coil, the dense popularity of this pivotal moment, falling like the dollar around my barefoot sense of things.
WASHINGTON -- Lame Duck, George W. Bush, in a rare instance of lucidity, gained the insight and understanding that human beings, while alive, create heat. He is now claiming that his global war on terrorism, is helping reduce the temperature of the earth, by reducing the number of living people.
"That is laughable!" says Moby K. Dick of Science Faction Fime, whatever that is. "MOAB did more to trigger the final phase of this crisis than any other event, including his trumpeted loss of life."
Meantime the Buddhic drone of Diane Rehm echoes through my apterous coil, the dense popularity of this pivotal moment, falling like the dollar around my barefoot sense of things.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
John Edwards on the Colbert Report: Here's to Carolinians!
Two of my favorite Carolinians in a brilliant segment. Must see TV!
(Thanks to TomP at Daily Kos and Jude alerting my mind to it.)
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