Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men.
Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth,
Now the living timber bursts with the new buds
And spring comes round again. And so with men:
One generation comes to live, another dies away.--Iliad, Book 6

Justice Kennedy warns ABA of 'slight foreboding'

Can you hear them?..

From the Nuremberg Diary:
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when ( Read more... )

DisorderYour ScoreMajor Depression:Very HighDysthymia:Slight-ModerateBipolar Disorder:Extremely HighCyclothymia:Very HighSeasonal Affective Disorder:Extremely HighPostpartum Depression:N/ATake the Depression Test

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now why don't you all go fuck yourselves or something.

[Ok doing this again in a better location, better format, and better written so hiding it from teh gooogles... Changing my mind, this is historical I guess...]The city was laid out in geometric forms. Only hermeneutics could explain the twists and turns of the sewers, buildings, streets; their relations. Cantwell Crip woke up screaming and drenched ( Read more... )

Three years ago, I was a Marine Corps captain on the Iraqi/Kuwaiti border, participating in the invasion of Iraq. Awestruck, I heard our howitzers thunder and watched artillery rockets rise into the night sky and streak toward Iraq - their light bathing the desert moonscape like giant arc welders.

Coming home - disillusioned
By Christopher H.

Shit

The end of globalism
Feb 20
John Ralston Saul

Courtesy of the Australian Financial Review.

Politicians take note.

All politics is local.

Sometimes you just have to have side-splitting exchanges with people you don't know from adam.

The comment:
In other terms... (none / 1)

Anyone who thinks dialectically is an enemy of liberalism, hence a supporter of totalitarianism? Get a grip!

by Hoipolloi Cassidy on Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 03:24:05 PM PDT

My reply:
Only if (none / 0 ( Read more... )

The Edge Annual Question - 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
SHUFFLEBRAIN - The Quest of Hologramic Mind second edition by Paul Pietsch
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened ( Read more... )