December 2008
21 posts
NPR: A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  -Dalai Lama [Top Freudian Slip 2008: When I first posted this, I had “mugger” in the title as “mother”.]
Dec 30th
“For knowledge, add a little every day. For wisdom, erase a little every day.”
– Lao Tse
Dec 29th
“The words of the world want to make sentences.”
– Gaston Bachelard
Dec 29th
“Our culture’s need to pigeonhole everything is defeated in notebooks. ...”
– Charles Simic, “Poets’ Notebooks”, in Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs, p43
Dec 28th
Wikipedia: List of unusual deaths →
My favorite: Aeschylus, the Greek playwright and father of tragedy, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived.
Dec 27th
Regeneration of Brain Cells: Research Suggests... →
Including intermittent fasting/calorie restriction/spreading meals out and various supplements.  Brains: they make you think.
Dec 26th
The Onion: Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider... →
Dec 24th
“I have a strong desire to communicate something to people, through my music. I...”
– Witold Lutoslawski, 1973 (composer; I have his symphonies, they explore an interesting sound-world)
Dec 24th
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Barack Obama To Swear In On Homosexual Atheist's... →
Barack Obama will be deliberately spitting on everything America holds dear by being sworn into office on the Bible of known atheist and homosexual Abraham Lincoln. Couldn’t he have chosen a better American, like Jerry Falwell?
Dec 24th
Lyrics: For Emma
by Bon Iver, on ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’   Narrator: (So apropos: Saw death on a sunny snow) Him: “For every life…” Her: “Forgoe the parable.” Him: “Seek the light.” Her: “…My knees are cold.” (Running home, running home, running home, running home…) Her: “Go find another lover; To bring a… to string...
Dec 23rd
“Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Dec 21st
“I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a...”
– Madeleine L’Engle
Dec 21st
The Onion: Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage... →
Dec 19th
The Onion: Barack Obama Defeats Barack Hussein... →
A must-read.
Dec 17th
The Onion: Area Woman Becomes Republican Vice... →
Dec 17th
Best Week Ever: 10 Lists General Enough To Get On... →
the best one: 1. Top 10 Things 10. Lumber 9. The Printing Press 8. Jai alai 7. The Krebs Cycle 6. Lakes 5. Ducktales (I used to love that show so much!!!!!!!!!!) 4. Déjà vu 3. Sexual Intercourse 2. Snap Bracelets 1. The Simpsons. And The 80s.
Dec 16th
The Onion: Either Someone 14th Caller Or... →
Dec 11th
Two Intriguing Thoughts Regarding The Death Of...
from a facebook message board on the topic of Seymour’s suicide: 1. I was sitting in a history class the other day and it suddenly occurred to me that it isn’t that difficult to understand at all. Seymour is a Bodhisattva, my friends. He is on the verge of enlightenment. He could step over at any time. He is aware that this is to be his last life on Earth if he simply lives out his...
Dec 9th
“[Phyllis Tickle’s book ‘The Great Emergence’] highlights the...”
– Jonathan Brink, via emergent village]
Dec 9th
Dec 8th
“We don’t know what life is, anyway. Not really. We just know what life...”
– This article, which is really interesting so far
Dec 3rd