"There is no multi-tasking. There is only the monkey mind jabbering so fast it seems like multi-tasking." *
CHIEF AMONG THE RESOLUTIONS about to be made will be the one in which "we here highly resolve" to get more stuff done. "Productivity" has become a pagan idol and it's cult is GTD -- or "Getting Things Done." Merlin Mann @ 43 Folders is the high priest of this cult and David Allen is his prophet.
As Bokonon says in Cat's Cradle, "Busy, busy, busy."
But putter not, I am here to "restore you to life."
As you know, we all have far too much to do. But the only reason this is so is because of the proliferation of productivity tools that respond to our insane lust to be "productive." Driving this insanity is the To-Do list which is, being limitless, is unlimited in its ability to drive us insane.
It's time to stop the To-List insanity. To just say no to To-Do.
Toss all you've previous To-Do Listing Systems you've got out -- paper and/or electronic -- and convert to this new, improved certifiably not-insane system.
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Don't say I never do anything to increase your sanity, because I just did.
for my daughter
Throughout the night, the cold drew close,
And wrapped our home in shrouds of frost.
Within, four candles lent us light,
Returning to us what was lost.
Around us, all our village slept.
Our children safe, their breathing slow.
Four candles gleamed beside the tree,
Their flames burned long, burned low.
Then all fell silent round my house.
The snow shown blue, the shadows, slate.
You could almost hear the planet turn.
I stood bereft beside my gate.
Behind me, those I loved slept warm,
Protected by God's endless grace.
Below me lay the village streets,
Clad in shadow's chill embrace.
The darkness waned, the morning loomed,
Within my house the fire grew bright.
But still I walked on fragile snow,
And prayed for greater light.
As a child I'd lived in dreams of stars,
Of peace on Earth --life's golden seal--
And this night seemed, of all our nights,
The one when all such dreams were real.
Tonight I know this is not so.
The world is not as we would wish,
But as we make it, day by day,
And this, the mystery and the gift.
The candles whisper of His gift.
The stars reflect them high above.
The gift is given to us again,
That we remember how to love.
-- Mill Hill Drive, Southport, Connecticut, 1990
Sung by the Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Lyrics by Christina Rossetti:
Were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt.
-- T. S. Eliot, "The Journey of the Magi"
Theirs was the Age of Myth; a world where night was not clad in the web of lights that now obscures the stars. It was a world lit by flaring torches, dim oil lamps, guttering candles, the phases of the moon and the broad shimmering river of the Milky Way. When the sun went down and night ascended, life withdrew into homes. Only the very rich or the very poor were abroad.
The night sky, now so thin and distant, so seldom really seen, was to them thick and close at hand. They reclined on their hill sides, their roofs, or in rooms built for viewing the moon and the stars. They watched it all revolve above them. Remembered. Kept records. They saw beings in the heavens -- giants, animals, the origins of myth -- and knew that in some way it was all connected. They studied the patterns of it all and from those repeating patterns fashioned the first science, astrology.
And, like all our vaunted sciences since, they looked to astrology to give them hints about the future, about what they should do and whom they should become. They looked to it then, as many look to it now, to remove their doubt.
Continued...
DEEP INSIDE the world's oldest known building, every year, for only as much as 17 minutes, the sun -- at the exact moment of the winter solstice -- shines directly down a long corridor of stone and illuminates the inner chamber at Newgrange. Access to this moment is by lottery with only 100 chosen [27,000 entered in 2006], but now you can join them via the first ever live video streaming of the moment:
Continued...
From: The Global Control Center of the Great and Powerful Gore
To: International Party Animals Here in Bali
Re: Let's Make Our Kickoff Tailgater a Real Scorcher!
For Immediate Release
Dear Little People,
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret, to Bali!
I hope you all got your "Goodie" Bags and genuine Vuitton suitcase of cash. If not, talk to George and he'll hook you up. It's supercool, but not too cool, here in Bali and it will get groovier as we trip out together. As for the formal opening with the world's press in attendence, I want to remind you again that it is Black Thong optional. Full Brazilian waxes are available gratis, like everything else, at the Spa. You see anything else you like around the grounds, Prius, Hummer, or a small Balinese girl or boy, just sign for it. But, hey, remember to "play safe." This is, after all, one of those 3rd world countries.
Because, for special groovy people like us, it will always be 1968, the special surprise headliner at the our Woodstock South Pacific Live Earth Acid Test and International Human Hump-In here in Bali is, once again, Country Joe and the Fish!, singing their new song that is currently number one in the Mission District of San Francisco, "Feel Like I'm Fixing to Fry Rag ( Next Stop the Heart of the Sun )." Now, you gotta admit that is far out! Just thinking about it makes the years and the pounds just melt away doesn't it?
Here are the lyrics. Learn them. You will sing them with enthusiasm.
But darlin', those days are gone
Oh yeah
Stop dreaming
And live on in the future
But darlin', a-don't look back
Whoa, no-no
Don't look back
-- John Lee Hooker
Ah, but we do, don't we? Seeing the shapes, getting the measure, going the distance and finding -- if only for a moment -- the safe harbors of your life requires a spiritual sextant sighting the fixed stars. It's a ghost's navigation with what is ahead a white blank screen, and what is behind fading into a fog. There are shallows, shoals and the lee shore. Times in irons, then storms, then stretches of clear open ocean on a broad reach, but always with the sense of hidden reefs and no known port. It helps to track other voyages, to follow similar arcs, to watch if they pass, or seem to pass, the same checkpoints. Some are siblings, others are friends and lovers, still others are artists that, at some point, strike us as sharing if not a life, at least a similar trajectory.
The caption at NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" page reads: "Atlantis to Orbit."
The filename of the picture reads: nightlaunch.
And I am moved by the poetry of this most modern of images, not by the triumph of Reason which it seems to enshrine, but by that which is beyond Reason yet within it all the same.
In thinking about this brief essay I could not help but think of a longer one by Doctor Bob at The Doctor Is In about a "civilized" European nation that cannot stop itself from taking the next step down into the pit; its people driven, as these things always are, by the inexorable demands of "what is reasonable."
In the work of Goya we see how that great soul came, having walked the carnage cloaked landscapes of his era, to understand that cry of the Enlightenment, "The sleep of reason breeds monsters."
New times require new words. Freshly minted, I give you:
v.intr.
1. To complain peevishly or meaninglessly, in a staccatto fashion, supported only with a keyboard and an internet account.
Opening somewhere in the midwest soon:
As the 2008 election scandal looms in the background, the inhabitants of Iowa begin to slip into an existentialist void, wherein social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility in campaigning is practically nonexistant. Focusing on three candidates in particular, the Edwards, the Obamas and the Clintons, "The Ice Storm of Iowa " chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration, as the candidates shatter their social "roles" in pursuit of votes, within an environment turned inwards on itself. -- The Ice Storm of Iowa 2008 - Plot summary
The Democratic rivals struggled with an ice storm -- and each other -- as they spent Saturday courting constituencies crucial to winning the nomination and the White House. -- Democrats in Iowa battle ice, each other
This is not to say there is no clear choice here. There is only what I'd call a "sorta" choice.
My backyard 14 minutes ago. More coming down and sticking. I'm also getting reports of a real deep freeze setting in back on in New England. If you've got some spare global warming hanging around, bring it on! As for me, I'm putting on the robe and going into hibernation mode. Wake me when the Ice Age is over.
Continued...Franklin Foer's plea of "Guilty... but with an explanation" for the New Republic's Fictional soldier's stories is at Fog of War.
There will be a tsunami of comment on this all over the sphere. This is just an early warning signal.
You can play "follow the flamers" at Memeorandum where the dog pile is only just getting started.
Continued...Remember the fluff published by National Geographic about Judas being simply "misunderstood?" It turns out that NatGeo well understood what they were doing. They were publishing a scam. And took pains to hide their tracks. Here's today's item from NYT (via The Anchoress) Gospel Truth - New York Times by April D. DeConick, a professor of Biblical studies at Rice University, is the author of "The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says.
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Human Vs. Zombie Tag A Growing Trend On College Campuses, Having Sex Declining
"Whether we are obituary notices, hallucinatory giant rabbits, or strings of random keyboard strokes, it's time for the chimera community to stand up and claim our rights as citizens," said ASDFG. "We will no longer be silent and invisible. Okay, maybe invisible." - iowahawk
Fools rush in where fools have been before:
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Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy sick servant, Dean Barnett, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that, with his bodily health restored, he may give thanks to Thee in Thy church. Through Christ our Lord.Amen.
"Iran's hardline Islamic government encourages gender separation, and last year backed a proposal to create a womens' bicycle which covered the rider's legs and upper body. A women-only taxi service, with female drivers, has been launched in the country's main cities and buses and underground trains are segregated." - Women's car with electronic parking aids unveiled in Iran
"You should not be loading up on stocks now, because you’d be paying the historically average price of a stock which is $16 in stock price for each $1 in earnings. You’re not getting a deal, you’re paying retail. People should wait for the market to REALLY go on sale, and with a recession guaranteed, it’s almost a surety it will. You laugh at Cramer suggesting a 7,700 Dow, just like my big time former employers laughed at me when I said there was a housing bubble (and an Asian currency crisis and a Dotcom Bubble), but you might just want to (for a change) listen."
Recipe by Alaska Fisherman Sarah Palin Wasilla, AlaskaHT: Ninme
"Events may now be driven by forces that are beyond short term human control, as if some dynamical system boundary into nonlinear response has been crossed. In that chaotic environment, Presidential leads don't switch on things like "who won the debate" any more than the financial meltdown is responding to bailout packages. They respond to a combination of things which we don't understand, though we pretend to. So we pull back on the stick and stomp on the rudder pedals but the crate just has a mind of its own." - Belmont Club » The second debate
"Tom, listen to me. And yourself. You just admonished my worthy opponent for speaking longer than you want. And then you break the rules by asking another question instead of allowing these good people who waited in line to be part of this audience to ask their questions. And only a Washington-based journalist would ask about "a date certain." Setting a deadline to grapple with such a long-term problem is a recipe for a disaster. In one word, no. In two words, hell no." -Don Surber Just ask me
"If this financial crisis "proves" that capitalism and free markets just don't work, isn't the generally lower standard of living in nations with other systems a far more conclusive proof that other systems are much worse? Second, as the example of Zimbabwe amply demonstrates, it is not the zeroes in the end that matter but what those zeroes can buy. If the financial crisis makes everything cheaper the same percentage as my net worth goes down, I am no worse off than I used to be. " -The Fourth Checkraise: Purchasing power
"The whole election has become a surreal freak show; it's like watching a German game show with dancing monkeys and talking sausages and accordion music and sternly pursed lips. It's freaking me out! -Rachel Lucas
Sudan hit by Apollo Asteroid TC3 is estimated to be only two to five meters in diameter but exploded with the force of a one kiloton nuclear device. Asteroids of this size hit the Earth every few months according JPL scientists.
"Promise the American people that if he is elected, he will appoint Rudy Giulliani as Attorney General and his first order of business will be to investigate, indict and prosecute all those involved in any wrong doing in the sub-prime mortgage debacle, from Wall Street, to K Street to Main Street." -The AnchoressWill McCain be this smart? As LBJ once said, "I don't want to hold out any hopes for you I don't hold out for myself."
"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" - Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regretHummm, I wonder what other bits of your personal behavior the passionate butt-insky prigs at Google are going to try to "help" you with.
"The seismic jolt sent through global stock markets yesterday has ratcheted up the pressure on Fed chief Ben Bernanke, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner and SEC chief Chris Cox - three pivotal players who had hoped for a period of post-rescue bill calm in order to surgically attack the time bombs still ticking on their watches. Pulling the trigger first was Bernanke...." - BEN BERNANKE, TIM GEITHNER, AND CHRIS COX LEAD FIGHT TO SAVE MARKET - New York Post HT: Virtual Memories
"The political class isn't attracting the best talent in the nation. It's not even attracting the second-best." -Instapundit.com -
It gets put up, it gets yanked, put up, yanked.
Yank this, bitches...HT: Malkin
"Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof--of which history offers so many examples--that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don't they just turn to the genuine article?" -Paul Johnson, The Nonsense of Global Warming - Forbes.com
"From this side of the big pond, the US appears to be suffering from gout and totally self absorbed ignoring Iranian-Syrian-North Korean nuclear deals and Russian fleet deployments--as if they do not exist. The US election has become reduced to a variation of a "You ain't prejudiced, baby?" pick up ploy while Congress is frantic over reelections and Bush is reading retirement flyers." - Sense of Events: We ARE Meshuga
"The fact that the MSM continues to publish the lie about Palin's stance on matters such as the rape kit is unlikely to be due to either stupidity or ignorance. The rape kit allegation has been mentioned to me quite prominently by the women I know; it seems to strike a special chord and to provoke tremendous outrage. Even if the MSM knows it's a lie, it's just too valuable a lie for the MSM to give up." -neo-neocon Palin's women problem
Give me back my broken knife,
my mirrored room, my secret life.
It's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture.
Give me absolute control
over every living soul,
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex.
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture.
Give me back the Berlin Wall.
give me Stalin and St Paul.
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions.
Won't be nothing,
Nothing you can measure anymore.
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold,
and it has overturned
the order of the soul.
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant.
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant,
When they said REPENT REPENT,
I wonder what they meant.
You don't know me from the wind.
You never will, you never did.
I'm the little Jew
who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall.
I've heard their stories, heard them all,
but love's the only engine of survival.
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further.
And now the wheels of heaven stop.
You feel the devil's RIDING crop.
Get ready for the future:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code.
Your private life will suddenly explode.
There'll be phantoms.
There'll be fires on the road,
and a white man dancing.
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down,
her features covered by her fallen gown,
and all your lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson,
and the white man dancin'.
Give me back the Berlin Wall.
Give me Stalin and St Paul.
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima.
Destroy another fetus now.
We don't like children anyhow.
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder.
Things are going to slide ...
neo-neocon Politics as Scrabble
"Fifty-nine percent of those polled want to turn in their Congressional tiles and pick some new ones. Of course, when you do that, sometimes you get an even worse hand. But if the tiles you're holding are bad enough -- all vowels, for example - you're willing to get rid of them and take your chances. I suppose that's part of what makes some people want to vote for Obama. Especially those who see him as that magical blank tile that can be anything you want it to be."
that makes no sense, bucking tradition just so they can brag about doing it…showing off for each other. End times. They’re a-comin’. If frogs wuz raining down out of the sky, the signs wouldn’t be clearer." -House of Eratosthenes
"So I guess academia naturally goes to the lowest ethical level. Professors should be expected to support moral monsters and tyrants. Most of the tyrants of the 20th century had a lot of professors behind them. - The Dartmouth Review: TDR Exclusive Interview: Peter Kreeft
Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin With all this extra baggage a female candidate has to bear, the chances of finding a woman whom other women won't hate seem skinnier than last year's jeans. But don't despair, if all else fails, we could just do what we always do and just vote in some guy. It's worked so well for us in the past.
"The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn't been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy's living room.” -Palin
Female fan's kiss ends music concert in KuwaitAl-Adwani also said Sunday that the fan's behavior broke controls on public entertainment, which were imposed by influential Muslim fundamentalists after they failed in 1997 to ban concerts altogether. Concerts have to be licensed by the government, and monitors from the Information Ministry watch the crowd to make sure nobody stands up to dance.HT: The Hemmerdinger Report
Thus, we have one possible answer to the question: Who "sent" Obama? It was the Ayers family, including Tom, John, Bill and Bernardine Dohrn. It is highly unlikely that a 30-something second year lawyer would have been plucked from relative obscurity out of a left wing law firm to head up something as visible and important in Chicago as the Annenberg Challenge by Bill Ayers if Ayers had not already known Obama very well. One possibility is that Obama proved himself to the Ayers's in the battle for local school control when he was at the DCP in the 80s.
Speckwatch « Watts Up With That? The question now is: how long will the sunspeck last? Longevity has not been a virtue for similarly sized sunspecks this year.
"There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop."
-- Sting, King of Pain
Big Bangs All the Way Down:
Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth: Scientific American
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.
I AM WORKING WITH MR. CHRISTOPHER DODD, MILLIONAIRE SENATOR, WHO WILL BE MY REPLACEMENT AS MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY IN JANUARY. AS A SENATOR, YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS LEADER OF THE AMERICAN BANKING DEREGULATION MOVEMENT IN THE NINETIES. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% SAFE.
THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT URGENCY. WE NEED A BLANK CHECK. WE NEED THE FUNDS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CANNOT DIRECTLY TRANSFER THESE FUNDS IN THE NAMES OF OUR CLOSE FRIENDS BECAUSE WE ARE CONSTANTLY UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
"Sure, we could sit around all day and argue the petty details, like whether or not it was a good idea to spend $600,000 on a 4-bedroom rambler in Renton on our family income of $35,000, or whether we should have given you children credit cards to buy lottery tickets."
"Kill them all. I am a dog owner and a dog lover, and as such, I say again, KILL THEM ALL. All current Pit Bull rescues or shelters or tenements should immediately be converted to crematoriums." - The Dipso Chronicles: First Installment of "Let's Get Rid Of"
"Sarah Palin saved John McCain again Thursday night. She is the political equivalent of cardiac paddles: Clear! Zap! We've got a beat! -Declarations - WSJ.com
"Alternative weeklies (such as our our Eye Weekly) are the most conservative form of all media, in the sense of there never is any dissent or change. Across the continent, all these independent weeklies are totally interchangable in that the "alternative" weekly of one city is identical to that of any other city, with the same scathingly left-wing columns, avant-garde comic strips and articles about local bands named Crank Shaft or Gutbucket." -The Fourth Checkraise: But does he shop at Brooks Brothers?
"Being a cowboy is the pinnacle of evolution. Once you’re at cowboy, there’s nowhere to go but down. Cowboys don’t look for fights, but they don’t run away from them either. They do what they have to do, when they have to do it. And they usually have to do it alone, because everyone wants Black Bart’s gang out of town, but no one wants to walk down the street alongside the sheriff and get shot doing it. " -Cowboys and Secret Agents by Bill Whittle on National Review Online
Philadelphia has had by far the steepest increase in home sales, with transactions more than doubling from the same time the previous year. Seattle marks the other end of the sales spectrum, having seen its transaction numbers drop by 43.7% from the previous year.
"They'd all smoke all the time around flammable things and never cause a fire. They'd drink themselves blind after work, but never miss the following day. They were late if they weren't 30 minutes early, too. They always carried a newspaper. If someone brought them a phone while they were working (It's for you.) there was someone dead on the other end of the line." -Sippican Cottage: It's (Still) Coming
The Army Sea-Smurfs Coming soon to a home town near you, the CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”)
“We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.” -Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
Prediction: Watch for a whole new, severe strain of Palin Derangement Syndrome to begin tonight. They hated her before tonight. They are going to pour on more unfathomable hate at a level we have never seen before. Sarah, we're praying for you.And so say we all.
WASHINGTON - As expected, a blue ribbon panel from the Ifill Center for Media Ethics cleared award-winning political journalist Gwen Ifill of all charge today, ending a lengthy 20 minute investigation into "ethics" charges that most observers believe were motivated by politics and racism. Ifill, like dynamic groundbreaking President-in-Waiting Barack Obama, is Black. The complete exoneration clears the way for Ifill to moderate the Vice Presidential debate tonight between respected Senate veteran Joe Biden and former beauty pageant loser Sarah Palin. -iowahawk
Speaking of starving the weeds, the New York Times has a circulation of 1,077,256 from info I found on the web (fortunately declining). I noticed that my local Starbucks (central valley California) carried the NYT. So I enquired with management who said they were required to purchase 10 copies a day it was part of Starbucks image I was told. We have four Starbucks and it was the same in all. If all US Starbucks stores are forced to carry 10 copies and there are 11,434 Starbucks in the US that alone represents 10.6% of the NYT circulation. If all stores world wide (16,226) were forced to carry the NYT it would represent 15.1% of their circulation. I don't normally agree with secondary boycotts, but if those who want to impact left wing media would write Starbuck about there policy, it might make a difference. I take my business elsewhere. - From a comment on a previous item
(Middletown, OH) -- Saturday night, people in the 3100 block of Wilbraham Road called police to report a woman wearing a cow costume was chasing kids, and blocking traffic. Michele Allen also allegedly urinated on the porch of one neighbor.
When officers arrived, they told her to go home. But later that night, they found her again, in the 2400 block of Verity, standing in traffic. This time, officers say, Allen smelled of alcohol and swore at them. [Additional details: Despite having two nights to sober up, Allen was in a foul mood Monday, yelling at jailers. "She was challenging people to 'suck her udders,'" Hoffman said. "I'm not joking."] She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Allen plead guilty, Monday morning, in Middletown Municipal Court, and sentenced to a month in jail. - The Big One
Obama worship: I don't care if it rains or freezes / As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus
On Biden: I think Team Sarah is petrified.
How to defeat the MSM:Starve the weeds, feed the flowers.
No Remote Fast Enough: Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over. -Politico.com
American Thinker: Clowns in the Cockpit
Capitalism: the worst system except for all the others
Six Social Policy Myths: Most of these people believe similar things and think in similar ways. They were educated in the same kinds of degree courses, reading the same books and internalising the same basic theories and perspectives. They interact regularly at seminars and conferences where they reaffirm the core ideas they share. They referee each other’s writings, award each other research contracts, and evaluate each other’s job applications. They often live in the same neighbourhoods, send their children to the same schools, and read the same newspapers and periodicals. Collectively, they ‘know’ what our society is like, and they ‘know’ what needs to be done to improve it.
Kevin Kelly -- Narrow Gates of Inevitability My death is inevitable, but how I die is not.
WaMu moolah: CEO Alan Fishman may make $19 million for 17 days' work
Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road It is worth noting that 90% or more of what the Federal Government does today is forbidden it by the Constitution.
The Little Death: Secular humanists often have no backup plan beyond the government saving their sorry backsides.... Fear is a big city menace, a symptom of the disease of liberalism.
- The "Not Insane" To-Do List
- Hanukkah Candles on Christmas Eve
- Pause.... and Begin Again
- The Star
- The Creche by the Side of the Road
- Life List: "My God, what have I done?"
- Fear of Fritterware: The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Sorry State of After You Say You're Sorry
- One Moment in Time: Streaming the Solstice from Newgrange
- Al Gore as the Powerpoint Jesus
- The Rise of the Purple Warriors
- Bill and Hillary's Hippie Daze
- New York Times Anonymous: The 12 Steps
- The Day We Killed John Lennon
- Gore to Earthlings: The Memo
- The Great Souls of Our Time: Van Morrison
- On Advent: "We Are All Lying in the Mud, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars"
- When Words Collide: Yabble
- The Ice Storm of Iowa: A Choice of "Sortas"
- It's Midday in Seattle on December 1. Do You Know Where Your Global Warming Is?