Let us now praise local places, like used bookstores. I am most pleased that in the Internet Age people still want to read in print. (This harkens back to a previous post about the Kindle). Thus, cheers for what is in ink and not merely online, though, ironically, this is my longest post yet and [...]
Literally? Hahahahaha… really, folks, this article on the Portuguese novelist Lobo Antunes is revealing for its peripheral mention of how consumerism has taken over Portuguese society, rotting from the past. Portugal sounds like a ripe place for the European Union to come in — wait, it already did — and foster what Jacques Attali noted [...]
How memes are reinforced in little ways. Here, In 1995, she released the suicide note of former White House aide Vincent Foster, acting on litigation brought by the Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act. Whereas here, No single item connected to the Foster death has aroused as much controversy as the so-called [...]
Based on a conversation last night with a generous reader, I was going to write about cloud computing, the Grid, and a life of opting out, but as my head is in a cloud with a 100 degree fever, this is about as far as I get today, pointing to what I would have discussed, [...]
A simple observation important to note: who is defending the Bush-era torture policy? The real executive, not the figurehead: Dick Cheney. Cheney is also the ‘maestro’, as Mike Ruppert termed him, of the purposeful confusion on 9/11 — ‘”Seven-and-a-half years without a repeat is not a record to be rebuked and scorned,” Cheney said.’ — [...]
Following up on my last post, I’m giving a shout-out to print (and some slang, heh-ho-hee-hee) and digging this article on the Kindle era, which I have vowed to avoid using — the Kindle, not the era (drum crash) — because although I enjoy the internet for many reasons, reading books online isn’t one of [...]
I give in to the use of the verb ‘tweet’ for posting to Twitter. Tech slang that has found its way into discourse, such as ‘ping’ (email [v.]) and ‘offline’ (informal), makes me cringe with aversion to trendiness, but I can see the utility of what Wendy McElroy discusses here. But, that doesn’t mean I [...]
Enjoy the internet’s openness while it lasts, before powers-that-be decide that it’s too open … for giving vent to all sort of nasty heresies such as alternative news citations of hidden agendas? ‘The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a common enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that [...]
beside being above the one below, is this: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” That sums it up for me. Lately I’ve been taking religion, traditionally given, as an apt metaphor not to be discarded. Evil exists. This has not become obvious via experience excepting study, because, [...]
As I saw the film yesterday, this might very well be a paraphrase, but I believe the line is: “It’s a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada,” said Captain Pike to a young James T. Kirk, trying to convince him to enlist in Starfleet. It was interesting for two reasons. One, Kirk didn’t ask about the Federation, [...]