tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823172011-04-21T18:05:43.279-04:00AlephGnosticism, Jung, dreams, politics, art, psychologyAlephnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-11203552511614754952008-08-02T16:42:00.001-04:002008-08-02T16:44:07.347-04:00
For the young who want to
Talent is what they say
you have after the novel
is published and favorably
reviewed. Beforehand what
you have is a tedious
delusion, a hobby like knitting.
Work is what you have done
after the play is produced
and the audience claps.
Before that friends keep asking
when you are planning to go
out and get a job.
Genius is what they know you
had after theAlephnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-72192398483981077972008-05-03T19:32:00.001-04:002008-05-03T19:38:58.257-04:00
Learn to suture using a bannana
More...Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-70787704170243779962008-04-30T22:43:00.001-04:002008-04-30T22:43:41.879-04:00More one one of my favorite writers, Anna Kavan.Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-46367392207912554982008-04-10T15:25:00.000-04:002008-04-10T15:26:18.754-04:00
Mark Powell
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-61713922420061178272008-04-06T04:20:00.000-04:002008-04-06T04:21:54.014-04:00"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself" --
Thomas PaineAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-48786062404688314492008-04-03T13:18:00.001-04:002008-04-03T13:18:33.957-04:00
Diana Cooper
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-82109865124699084232008-04-03T13:12:00.000-04:002008-04-03T13:14:14.236-04:00
Jill Moser
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-57945084113962282822008-04-03T13:10:00.001-04:002008-04-03T13:11:56.320-04:00
Alfonso Ossorio
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-34471586757496578342008-04-01T02:18:00.002-04:002008-04-01T02:20:28.620-04:00
Sherry Camhy
uses an interesting technique where black graphite is drawn on black paper to create light tones.Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-36219069587261577092008-03-18T22:30:00.000-04:002008-03-18T22:31:20.397-04:00Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1100827709073002632008-03-18T19:38:00.001-04:002008-03-18T19:38:43.562-04:00
Daniel Libeskind
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59342794649632135602008-03-17T00:37:00.001-04:002008-03-17T00:37:51.006-04:00
Ben Grasso
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59248152683924431802008-03-15T21:20:00.000-04:002008-03-15T21:22:11.861-04:00"Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." --Albert EinsteinAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-8336753612349845392008-02-22T12:20:00.001-05:002008-02-22T12:20:40.946-05:00Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-31679495955880898752008-01-28T02:14:00.000-05:002008-01-28T02:15:10.710-05:00
Antoni Tàpies
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-78733715159159483702008-01-28T02:12:00.001-05:002008-01-28T02:12:57.622-05:00Zen and the Art of Functional ProgrammingAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-29350189224949407742008-01-12T20:40:00.000-05:002008-01-12T20:41:28.989-05:00"In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law."Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-59920034868832263862008-01-11T20:30:00.000-05:002008-01-11T20:38:29.834-05:00
I passed a house where I once lived:
A man and a woman are still together in the whispers.
Many years have passed with the silent buzz
of staircase bulbs -- on, off, on.
The keyholes are like small delicate wounds
through which all the blood has oozed out
and inside people are pale as death.
I want to stand once more as in my
first love, leaning on the doorpost
embracing you all night through,Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-53255741963420893612008-01-11T03:45:00.001-05:002008-01-11T03:46:12.669-05:00"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." -- Nikos KazantzakisAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-4060611645696801562008-01-07T14:35:00.000-05:002008-01-07T14:36:25.674-05:00
"The child who received a great deal of attention, whose every need was promptly met, as among the New Guinea Mountain Arapesh, became a gentle, cooperative, unaggressive adult. On the other hand, the child who received perfunctory, intermittent attention, as among the New Guinea Mundugomor, became a selfish, uncooperative, aggressive adult...
Another relevant aspect of most of these cultures Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-19791730052058139002008-01-05T18:10:00.000-05:002008-01-05T18:11:15.383-05:00
The Pain -- When Will It End?
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-52228327285263522532007-12-20T00:20:00.000-05:002007-12-20T00:23:39.956-05:00"Jean Rhys said in an interview in Paris Review, 'Listen to me. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. And there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.'" -- Madeleine L'EngleAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-86790036713744502742007-12-19T13:02:00.000-05:002007-12-19T13:03:37.822-05:00"Slippery slopes have been the topic of a spate of recent literature. In this Article, the authors provide a general theory for understanding and evaluating slippery slope arguments and their associated slippery slope events."
The Camel's Nose Is in the Tent: Rules, Theories, and Slippery SlopesAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-67136153177521448102007-12-18T22:20:00.000-05:002007-12-18T22:23:00.045-05:00"We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?
We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call "The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates having a job with making a living..."
More...Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-7491459550436583252007-12-18T22:19:00.000-05:002007-12-18T22:20:20.713-05:00Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-65745119109283244632007-12-06T13:56:00.001-05:002007-12-06T13:56:44.600-05:00Freeze food in ice cube traysAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-83312961164148031102007-12-03T01:48:00.000-05:002007-12-03T01:53:33.007-05:00Word Processors: Stupid and InefficientAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-4084624734360554062007-11-29T12:46:00.000-05:002007-11-29T12:51:05.213-05:00
Benjamin Braun
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-38801923217997987282007-09-16T22:10:00.000-04:002007-09-16T22:11:07.774-04:00"Amberley excelled at chess... one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind."Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-89242146018089035882007-08-30T12:14:00.000-04:002007-08-30T12:18:16.821-04:00The lazy are slaughtered
the world grows industrious
The ugly are slaughtered
the world grows beautiful
The foolish are slaughtered
the world grows wise
The sick are slaughtered
the world grows healthy
The sad are slaughtered
the world grows merry
The old are slaughtered
the world grows young
The enemies are slaughtered
the world grows friendly
The wicked are slaughtered
the world grows Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-80085619162528594302007-08-01T19:35:00.001-04:002007-08-01T19:35:53.396-04:00Why I Left America: The Rise Of Elitist Fascism And The Death Of American DemocracyAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-51472091584622598722007-07-19T16:42:00.000-04:002007-07-19T16:43:09.572-04:00What's the difference between noir and hardboiled fiction?Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-53520918314616769462007-07-14T10:58:00.000-04:002007-07-14T10:59:03.079-04:00"Those who control the past, control the future. Those who control the present, control the past." --George OrwellAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-21240328397394424402007-07-13T15:42:00.000-04:002007-07-13T15:44:42.880-04:00Word of the day:
contretemps - An unexpected and usually undesirable event.Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-46434874790355674072007-07-12T12:05:00.000-04:002007-07-12T12:08:14.933-04:00"Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy." --Frank WedekindAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-4850021217393014412007-07-08T18:19:00.000-04:002007-07-08T18:20:00.701-04:00"I think it would be a mistake for us to go on to Baghdad [during the first Gulf War]. I think it would have sundered the coalition. None of our Arab allies was prepared to do that. We would have been all alone in Baghdad and we would have switched from being the international organizer of this coalition that defeated aggression, to a situation in which we were sort of a colonialist power -- an Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-92011783445975390512007-06-28T21:50:00.000-04:002007-06-28T21:51:51.268-04:00Word of the day:
verbigeration: an obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-27209451212745329922007-06-25T23:57:00.000-04:002007-06-25T23:58:07.190-04:00
Robert Wilson
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-20539062423071924662007-06-19T15:11:00.000-04:002007-06-19T15:29:17.049-04:00
First Voice:--A game of checkers?
Second Voice:--Well, I don't mind.
First Voice:--I move the Will.
Second Voice:--You're playing it blind.
First Voice:--Then here's the Soul.
Second Voice:--Checked by the Will.
First Voice:--Eternal Good!
Second Voice:--And Eternal Ill.
First Voice:--I haste for the King row.
Second Voice:--Save your breath.
First Voice:--I was moving Life.
Second Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-32864141971934123702007-06-19T01:37:00.000-04:002007-06-19T01:38:57.384-04:00"It is something from a surrealist still life—a hat, glasses, moustache and toilet seat. This is the collection of belongings that forensic scientist Michael Rieders was offered when he put the word out that he was trying to track down Salvador Dalí’s DNA."Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-90335637178313536722007-06-19T01:23:00.000-04:002007-06-19T01:24:41.556-04:00
Jose Hernandez
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-9535326411316871992007-06-19T00:42:00.000-04:002007-06-19T00:43:32.559-04:00
St. Pancras Chambers
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-42881880926299447632007-06-06T02:07:00.000-04:002007-06-06T02:09:34.881-04:00
Tomb of Edvard Grieg
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-90474809798380700052007-06-03T14:10:00.000-04:002007-06-03T14:13:38.462-04:00"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel BeckettAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-36483840757044189262007-05-12T11:57:00.001-04:002007-05-12T11:57:58.190-04:00
Mark Henson
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-48890806770007900452007-05-12T11:35:00.000-04:002007-05-12T11:36:28.051-04:00
Jacek Yerka
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-65653781814117623492007-05-11T20:58:00.000-04:002007-05-11T21:02:25.455-04:00
Tom Uttech
More...Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-83412219755434944202007-04-26T10:29:00.000-04:002007-06-19T00:47:33.406-04:00"History repeats itself [twice], first as tragedy, second as farce." --Karl MarxAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-91804354138892694572007-04-21T10:51:00.000-04:002007-04-21T11:02:52.742-04:00
Wisdom Goddesses - Mahavidyas and the Assertion of Femininity in Indian Thought
More...Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-75106098686173143952007-04-21T10:20:00.000-04:002007-04-23T09:31:47.213-04:00
Ruth Gwily
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-87172551364548586832007-04-20T12:40:00.000-04:002007-04-20T12:49:32.287-04:00
Scott Eagle
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-80818119161341330192007-04-18T18:22:00.001-04:002007-04-18T18:22:54.061-04:00
Dressing the Wounded during a Gas Attack by Austin Osman SpareAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1176752138471183202007-04-16T15:35:00.000-04:002007-04-16T15:35:38.606-04:00Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1175492561404077652007-04-02T01:42:00.000-04:002007-04-02T01:42:41.423-04:00Why Blue Green Algae Makes Me Tired
"Actually, the algae isn't tiring me. I'm tired of the people trying to sell it to me. Most blue-green algae is sold in a multi-level marketing scheme through Cell Tech. Sellers see me, a physician, as a potentially lucrative franchise to sell algae for them. So I get two or three sales calls every week (once as many as twenty). Never mind that selling algae Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1175476051687538092007-04-01T21:07:00.000-04:002007-04-01T21:07:32.710-04:00Brain Diseases I Wish I HadAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1175321378155291752007-03-31T03:09:00.000-04:002007-03-31T03:09:38.296-04:00"The vast majority of mp3 enthusiasts - the millions of people who transfer mp3 files around the Internet via Napster-style file sharing software, or via IRC, or Usenet, or whatever - are probably blissfully unaware of all the arguments which take place concerning lame v Fraunhofer, 128k v 192k, CBR v VBR, stereo v joint stereo - and good luck to them! However, once people start to acquire a Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1175119722811450582007-03-28T19:08:00.000-04:002007-03-28T19:09:20.416-04:00
William Burroughs Book CoversAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1174927975354405932007-03-26T13:52:00.000-04:002007-03-26T14:02:20.233-04:00This land like a mirror turns you inward
And you become a forest in a furtive lake;
The dark pines of your mind reach downward,
You dream in the green of your time,
Your memory is a row of sinking pines.
Explorer, you tell yourself this is not what you came for
Although it is good here, and green;
You had meant to move with a kind of largeness,
You had planned a heavy grace, an anguished dream.
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1174375848377319382007-03-20T04:30:00.000-04:002007-03-20T13:53:46.650-04:00Potatoes are in the nightshade family. Nightshade, as in Deadly Nightshade.
Do NOT eat potatoes which are green under the skin or bitter tasting. Even if you avoid the green parts, they can still be poisonous.
MoreAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1173854581334695502007-03-14T03:43:00.000-04:002007-03-14T03:43:01.500-04:00He comes across the granite yard,
Grizzled feather glint in his black wings.
He strokes the tree, the water and the cat,
Glances at the mirror of the day.
And the pond shivers though the wind has stilled,
And the cat on the doorsill attacks the air
Like a mouse. The tree's blood begins to jell,
Day falls in stains on the brown grass.
The hundred year old oak door
Screeches like a newborn. Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1170652944258111742007-02-05T00:22:00.000-05:002007-02-05T00:22:24.370-05:00If you're traveling in the wilderness, or at sea, or anywhere else where being found may save your life, you might want to invest in a personal locator beacon. Here are the results of two tests of various PLBs: 1 2Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1170452973313528282007-02-02T16:49:00.000-05:002007-02-02T16:49:34.166-05:00Overhydration does not equal good hydrationAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1170369424894001282007-02-01T17:37:00.000-05:002007-02-01T17:37:05.693-05:00Make your own energy gelsAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1170226627164409722007-01-31T01:57:00.000-05:002007-01-31T01:57:07.296-05:00Ever wonder how to coil cables so that they don't tangle? Here's how.Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1169872814245420972007-01-26T23:40:00.000-05:002007-01-26T23:40:14.423-05:00Why I'm not an "Ultralight" backpackerAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1168532072830092922007-01-11T11:14:00.000-05:002007-01-11T11:14:32.980-05:00What items should a good waiter carry with them at all times?Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1168279309802633732007-01-08T13:01:00.000-05:002007-01-08T13:03:19.833-05:00
A Spotting Guide to the Common DalekAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1167887900150741702007-01-04T00:18:00.000-05:002007-01-04T00:22:57.786-05:00Word of the day:
    jejune: vapid, uninteresting, childish, immatureAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166633491910178582006-12-20T11:51:00.000-05:002006-12-20T11:51:31.930-05:00
"de vries' first and perhaps most important work in this context was the installation `16 dm2 wiese' (16 dm2 meadow) dating from 1974, exhibited in the Vleeshal in Middelburg in 1979. For this work, he dug up a square with a side length of 40 cm out of a meadow, took it apart and completely filled the walls of a relatively large room with the individual, pressed plants, each glued on to a piece Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166630801645856652006-12-20T11:06:00.000-05:002006-12-20T11:06:41.666-05:00"The library was founded in 1970 when three collectors merged their private libraries. It was named for the 19th-century author of the first full-length work of drug literature written by an American (who was known as "the American De Quincey"), and the first book about cannabis or hashish experience in the English language — The Hasheesh Eater (1857)...
At this writing, the reputation of the Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166630609608648572006-12-20T11:03:00.000-05:002006-12-20T11:03:29.786-05:00"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." --Bertrand RussellAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166589144854241122006-12-19T23:32:00.000-05:002006-12-19T23:32:25.076-05:00"I saw the murderers and I saw the victims
It was just courage, not compassion, that I lacked..." --Bertolt BrechtAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166374718324487822006-12-17T11:58:00.000-05:002006-12-17T11:58:38.446-05:00"Never believe anything until it is officially denied." --Claud CockburnAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1166329938022557422006-12-16T23:32:00.000-05:002006-12-16T23:33:42.910-05:00"During the 1970s, I filmed secretly in Czechoslovakia, then a Stalinist dictatorship. I interviewed members of the dissident group, Charter 77. One of them, the novelist Zdener Urbanek, told me, “We are more fortunate than you in the West, in one respect. We believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and watch on television, nothing of the official truth. unlike you, we have learned to Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1165638970177216062006-12-08T23:36:00.000-05:002006-12-08T23:36:10.340-05:00"Physics does not reduce to atomic physics, nor science to physics, nor life to science" --Erwin SchrödingerAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1165181096525840512006-12-03T16:24:00.000-05:002006-12-03T16:24:56.546-05:00"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent." --George Orwell, "Reflections on Gandhi"Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1165180306498228832006-12-03T16:11:00.000-05:002006-12-03T16:12:18.150-05:00The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach:
The Ogre cannot master speech.
About a subjugated plain,
Among it's desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.
-- W. H. Auden, "August 1968"Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1163829505808776652006-11-18T00:58:00.000-05:002006-11-18T00:58:26.400-05:00Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1163727885083845712006-11-16T20:44:00.000-05:002006-11-16T20:44:45.263-05:00"Humble thyself, impotent reason." --Blaise PascalAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1163222544588750232006-11-11T00:22:00.000-05:002006-11-11T00:22:25.213-05:00
Persian LiteratureAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1162075914420186342006-10-28T18:51:00.000-04:002006-10-28T18:51:55.456-04:00"There is an oriental tale about a deposed sultan who sat in his prison thinking only of escaping with the help of a fantastic bird about which he had heard marvelous things.
The bird comes to his window, takes a muslin band from his turban, and changes it into a magnificent carriage in which the sultan can sit.
He goes to the window, is already standing with one foot in the carriage, when the Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1160092529996706722006-10-05T19:55:00.000-04:002006-10-05T19:55:30.016-04:00“There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… it’s all about the information!”Alephnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1160091591509776712006-10-05T19:39:00.000-04:002006-10-05T19:48:18.293-04:00If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1159146315363484442006-09-24T21:05:00.000-04:002006-09-24T21:05:15.416-04:00"May you live as long as you laugh, and laugh as long as you live." --Ole OlsenAlephnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1159138409292767162006-09-24T18:53:00.000-04:002006-09-24T18:53:29.526-04:00
Dozens of ways to clean your penniesAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1159021817906182592006-09-23T10:30:00.000-04:002006-09-23T10:30:18.616-04:00
Space Shuttle Atlantis undocking from the International Space Station
(click above for the full pic)Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1158200547339766622006-09-13T22:22:00.000-04:002006-09-13T22:30:25.183-04:00"Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the seventh heaven. All the gods sat there in assembly. By special grace I was accorded the favour of a wish.
'Will you,' said Mercury, 'have youth, or beauty, or power, or a long life, or the prettiest girl, or any other of the many splendours we have in our chest of knickknacks? So choose, but just one thing.'
For a moment I was Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1158195751240121152006-09-13T21:02:00.000-04:002006-09-13T21:02:31.336-04:00"If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world's follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret it; if you laugh at the world's follies or if you weep over them, you will regret both; whether you laugh at Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1158071984350979962006-09-12T10:39:00.000-04:002006-09-12T10:39:46.656-04:00Echoes of Fascism: violent right-wing intimidation tactics are resurfacing in JapanAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1157948188820279802006-09-11T00:16:00.000-04:002006-09-11T00:16:28.916-04:00"Facts are stupid things." --Ronald ReaganAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1157913884573448972006-09-10T14:44:00.000-04:002006-09-10T14:44:44.643-04:00
How to make Ramen Noodles a microwaveAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1157911933223893212006-09-10T14:12:00.000-04:002006-09-10T14:12:15.730-04:00"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." --Dante AlighieriAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1157490422513927912006-09-05T17:07:00.000-04:002006-09-05T17:07:07.026-04:00From Welfare To Poverty: "welfare reform" has gotten people off the welfare rolls, some of them even got jobs, but it hasn't helped most of them escape povertyAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1156727471861849122006-08-27T21:11:00.000-04:002006-08-27T21:13:50.830-04:00
Charisma Man
Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1156282803815555722006-08-22T17:40:00.000-04:002006-08-22T17:40:03.900-04:00"I always wanted to stay anonymous. At first, I didn’t even give my name to the Criminal Investigation Division. I just burned a copy of the pictures onto a CD, typed an anonymous letter, put them in a manila envelope, and handed them to an agent at CID. I said, “This was left in my office,” and walked out.
But about an hour later, this little short guy named Special Agent Pieron came to my Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1156120588800502342006-08-20T20:36:00.000-04:002006-08-20T20:42:49.870-04:00In an Aug 17th interview, Noam Chomsky mentions an interesting Program on International Policy Attitudes poll on the US budget in Feb 2005, as an indicator of just how far from the mainstream the Bush administration and Congress is:
"What's happened is that both political parties are pretty far to the right of the general population on a host of serious issues... If you take a look at popular Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1156021001269999512006-08-19T16:56:00.000-04:002006-08-19T16:56:41.353-04:00Word of the day: cloy
To disgust or nauseate with excess of something originally pleasingAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1155970748356503802006-08-19T02:59:00.000-04:002006-08-19T17:07:27.176-04:00"I am posting this (and it is long) because I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call.
As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will... All of you breeders/sellers... should be made to work in the 'back' of an animal shelter for just one day.
Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would changeAlephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1155743965077942372006-08-16T11:59:00.000-04:002006-09-24T21:21:23.656-04:00"At a law school Supreme Court conference that I attended last fall, there was a panel on "The Rehnquist Court." No one mentioned Bush v. Gore, the most historic case of William Rehnquist's time as chief justice, and during the Q. and A. no one asked about it. When I asked a prominent law professor about this strange omission, he told me he had been invited to participate in another Rehnquist Alephnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82317.post-1155614035506069882006-08-14T23:53:00.000-04:002006-08-14T23:53:55.796-04:00Photographers in NYC are arrested and harrassed just for taking pictures.
"These arrests for 'taking pictures' usually come in the course of police officers doing their job, arresting someone else, and they don't want to be photographed arresting someone, so they charge the photographer with obstructing justice, or disorderly conduct, or they throw them to the ground and then charge them with Alephnoreply@blogger.com0