Have you ever had trouble chasing a flock of baby chicks into a coup before a rainstorm (or during a tornado)? Do your chickens sometimes break free of the fencing? Do you find it difficult to douse your chickens with de-lousing powder?
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Chickens and Horseshoes – Old Ideas Reconsidered
I herein respond to Eli’s plea that someone, anyone, with living offspring and functioning neurons address the pro-breeding ravings of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (RSB).
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Kids and BMWs, Ends and Means, Sense and Nonsense
Give Up is not just the title of the superb album by Postal Service, which gave us ” The District Sleeps Alone Tonight ,” ” We Will Become Silhouettes ,” ” Sleeping In ,” ” Such Great Heights ” and a number of other songs that deserve to be long and fondly remembered; it has become a notion for the current zeitgeist in American politics that I wish I couldn’t relate to: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c I Give Up – 9/11 Responders Bill www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
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Giving Up Is Wrong?
Matt Rediger tries to explain how legalized equality for gay people, affirmed in yesterday’s ruling [pdf] against California’s Proposition 8, violates freedom of religion. Rediger: [P]eople of faith cannot be expected to go against their beliefs, even if they view opposing beliefs and arguments as holding some kind of legitimacy. Two ethical systems can be legitimate, but they cannot necessarily exist in the same place at the same time
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Proposition 8 – It’s All Over but the Overheated Assertions and Poor Arguments
Because the internet enables such things, and because we know — from histrionic opponents of gay marriage if from no other source — that whatever is permitted will eventually become ordinary, and then expected, and then legally mandatory, I went to rate beer dot com to find my favorite beer, Rogue Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout , and see how it compares with the other stouts of the known universe. I am pleased to see it is number six — pleased because it means there are evidently five very fine stouts in front of it, and pleased because six is very, very high on a long list
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Following Something Into the Dark
Eli’s final music meme post sent me browsing the youtubes for Sonic Youth videos, which are plentiful there. I love the way this song, “Nevermind,” builds in intensity without going too chaotic, at least by Sonic Youth standards: Also, if by some chance you’ve never seen footage of Kim Gordan applying cosmetics to members of Nirvana over French subtitles, this is your chance
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What Was It Anyway?
Oh, fellow Americans, you crack me up : When presented with the statement “human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals,” just 45 percent of respondents indicated “true.” Compare this figure with the affirmative percentages in Japan (78), Europe (70), China (69) and South Korea (64).
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It Takes Practice
James Kwak is talking sense about Medicare: [P]roposals to solve the long-term budget deficit problem by cutting Medicare benefits are not solutions: they simply shift the problem from the government to individuals–which means they shift the problem from us as taxpayers to us as old people or us as family members of old people. If, for example, we increase the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67, the government saves money, but only because people who are 65 and 66 lose money–or, alternatively, all of us lose money because their employers now have to pay more for health care
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Tide Goes In, Tide Goes Out
In July I made the following new squidoo lenses relating to spirituality: Susan Seddon Boulet Goddess Paintings An artist whose art is still popular in the pagan scene, Susan Seddon Boulet will mostly be remembered for her goddess art. The mystical style of her paintings (mostly, but not exclusively, water color) strikes a core in many.
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New spiritual ‘lenses’ – pages on squidoo
Since my spoken Chinese has grown so rusty, I am glad to see the Japanese subtitles on this video, without which I would be unable to provide this summary: the good news is that Chinese commercial and financial interests may not immediately call in the massive debt the US owes to China. The bad news is that they envision a future in which people who once were known as Americans ride huge car-swallowing buses in their own city-sized servant quarters in China, presumably to and from long days in the plutonium mines. It’s possible my Japanese subtitle reading is a bit rusty too
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A Bright Future