"These differences of opinion come into consideration in their own proper place. It is certainly difficult to find a state intermediate between life and the absence of life. Some, too, will urge that a plant, if it be alive, is therefore an animal; for it is difficult to assign any principle to the life of plants except that of the life of ( Read more... )

Onward

Starving

for the luscious

IMAGE

and the-

the initiative to write the

passing poesy (p)of passionate perceptions

rolling through his brain

(since he no longer scribbles in notebooks)

tHINGS worth more than the ten thousand pages he garbled-

through broken shards of memory-

about the face that launched/lost a thousand ships: ( Read more... )

"While the argument was going on, Captain Teruzo Ando and 150 men were bursting into the official residence of Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki, who, like Viscount Saito, had so enjoyed the private showing of Naughty Marietta a few hours earlier. The elderly admiral, wakened by a maid, rushed to a storage room for a sword. He couldn't find it. ( Read more... )

And yet I haven't fallen in love with a Mexican girl. I'm actually not looking. I still feel almost not allowed to think about other women that way because I still feel strangely loyal to my now ex-girlfriend. I know that sounds silly. I'm also grateful for all the advice people have been giving me about getting over her. The only problem is that I ( Read more... )

"We continued our travels to Cana and then along the paths of Jesus in his early ministry to Capernaum and other communities around the Sea of Galilee. It was especially interesting to visit with some of the few surviving Samaritans, who complained to us that their holy sites and culture were not being respected by Israeli authorities -- the same ( Read more... )

"On September 17, 1787, some thirty-nine men, having completed their labors in Philadelphia, signed their names to a short document that bore a title as spare and simple as the text itself. The Constitution of the United States had taken almost four months in the drafting, and more centuries to prepare than anyone then or later could precisely ( Read more... )

"Sadly, Blum accepted the refusal of the opposition. 'I am conscious of having gone to the limit of any possible effort to fulfill the formula for a government which I judged the interests of the country dictated ... I cannot conceal my surprise or my sadness ... If I thought that the creation of 'republican unity around the Popular Front' had more ( Read more... )

This poll is wildly off from my actual preferences and it really upsets me that Giuliani is the highest Republican on it but at least the Democrats are on top and the Republicans on the bottom.

89% Mike Gravel
89% Dennis Kucinich
84% John Edwards
82% Chris Dodd
81% Barack Obama
78% Joe Biden
77% Hillary Clinton
72% Bill Richardson
36% Rudy Giuliani
29% ( Read more... )

"Unfortunately, instead of innovation and bold reform of our schools -- the reforms that would allow the kids at Thornton to compete for the jobs at Google -- what we've seen from government for close to two decades has been tinkering around the edges and a tolerance for mediocrity. Partly this is a result of ideological battles that are as ( Read more... )

"Twenty years later, getting close to the White House wasn't so simple. Checkpoints, armed guards, vans, mirrors, dogs, and retractable barricades now sealed off a two-block perimeter around the White House. Unauthorized cars no longer traveled Pennsylvania Avenue. On a cold January afternoon, the day before my swearing in to the Senate, Lafayette ( Read more... )