Ξ August 11th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
My first FAIL macro. Vote early, vote often!
From the editorial at :
ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx [ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx] Professor Hawking was, of course, born in the UK and has lived here his entire life. Without, as far as we know, being forcibly euthanised by the government for being 'worthless' even once.
Seriously, would you take investment advice from these people?!
Ξ August 10th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
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You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it''s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.
-- Charles Baudelaire
Ξ August 7th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
2. Execration: To most people, the use of such religious swear words is now regarded as tame and has no real place in execration. When you really want to express yourself in a curse, obscure Christian euphemisms no longer cut the mustard. However direct curses are rarely offensive in the words they employ, since they whole point is to wish ill on someone rather than deliver a spirited insult.
Take for example the Chinese curse; "may you come to the attention of the authorities!" It may sound a little lame at first blush, but that's probably because a certain amount of bile has been lost in translation. I'm told by US tax offenders that "May you come to the attention of the IRS!" is about as mean as a curse can get. Even so, it doesn't have the poetic grit of my favorite Arab curse "May wild asses defile the grave of your grandmother!" and neither does it have the surreal spitefulness of my favorite Liverpool curse "May the hairs on your arse turn to hammers and beat your balls to death!"
Ξ August 7th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Books, delicious, mouth watering books.
It cannot be had to understate that Rx2008 is made inclusive of both winning and god.
Ξ August 6th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN: THE DESTRUCTION OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki, looks at the reality of nuclear warfare with first-hand accounts from those who survived and whose lives were forever changed by the atomic bomb.Even after 60 years, those bombings continue to inspire argument, denial and myth. Surprisingly, most people know nothing or very little about what happened on August 6 and 9, 1945, two days that changed the world. This is a comprehensive, straightforward, moving account of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the point of view of the people who were there Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath. In a succession of riveting personal accounts, the film reveals both unimaginable suffering and extraordinary human resilience. Survivors (85% of victims were civilians) not vaporized during the attacks (140,000 died in Hiroshima, 70,000 in Nagasaki) continued to suffer from burns, infection, radiation sickness and cancer (another 160,000 deaths). As Sakue Shimohira, ten years old at the time, says of the moment she considered killing herself after losing the last member of her family: I realized there are two kinds of courage the courage to die and the courage to live. Other survivors include: Kiyoko Imori, just blocks from the hypocenter, she is the only survivor of an elementary school of 620 students. Keiji Nakazawa, who lost his father, brother and two sisters, then devoted his life to re-telling his story in comic books and animation. Shuntaro Hida, a young military doctor at the time, began treating survivors immediately after the explosion and, 60 years later, continues to provide care for them. Etsuko Nagano still cant forgive herself for convincing her family to come to Nagasaki, just weeks before the bombing. With a calm frankness that makes their stories unforgettable, the survivors bear witness to the unfathomable destructive power of nuclear weapons. Their accounts are illustrated with survivor paintings and drawings, historical footage and photographs, including rare or never before seen material. Steven Okazaki met more than 500 survivors and interviewed more than 100 before choosing the 14 people in the film. He says, Their stories are amazing, shocking, and inspiring.WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN, an HBO Documentary Film, details the human costs of atomic warfare and stands as a powerful warning that with enough present-day nuclear weapons worldwide to equal 400,000 Hiroshimas, we cannot afford to forget what happened on those two days in 1945.
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Ξ August 6th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims
Ξ August 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
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Ξ August 3rd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
The Dependencies
This morning, between two branches of a tree
Beside the door, epeira once again
Has spun and signed his tapestry and trap.
I test his early-warning system and
It works, he scrambles forth in sable with
The yellow hieroglyph that no one knows
The meaning of. And I remember now
How yesterday at dusk the nighthawks came
Back as they do about this time each year,
Grey squadrons with the slashes white on wings
Cruising for bugs beneath the bellied cloud.
Now soon the monarchs will be drifting south,
And then the geese will go, and then one day
The little garden birds will not be here.
See how many leaves already have
Withered and turned; a few have fallen, too.
Change is continuous on the seamless web,
Yet moments come like this one, when you feel
Upon your heart a signal to attend
The definite announcement of an end
Where one thing ceases and another starts;
When like the spider waiting on the web
You know the intricate dependencies
Spreading in secret through the fabric vast
Of heaven and earth, sending their messages
Ciphered in chemistry to all the kinds,
The whisper down the bloodstream: it is time.
Ξ August 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Historians frequently view revolutions as extraordinary and unanticipated interruptions of state social regulation of everyday life.
This isn't the case.
In my work as editor of a new encyclopedia of revolution and protest, I've reviewed 500 years' worth of revolutionary actions. And the surprising pattern I've found is the regularity of volatile and explosive conflicts, commonly revealed as waves of protest from within civil society to confront persistent inequality and oppression. While historians cannot forecast the time and place of revolutions, the past has a sustained, if disjointed, record of popular resistance to injustice.
