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This is it.
Great movie commemorating a great loss; it really helped to humanize Michael Jackson. It made me a little jealous of him. He got to check out before the climate really changed and we are left holding no option but to adapt or die. Expressive, expansive, belated tip of the hat to you, MJ.
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The Massacre at Fort Hood
(تَكْبِير) “Allahu Akbar” in deed. If in place of Allah you substitute the profane belief that “might makes right”; that the direction of violence can ever project a force for justice. Not even the most coldly ironic human can make sense of the massacre that took place in the military heart of Texas on Thursday afternoon. Yet I believe that such ( Read more... ) -
Quotes
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
- Howard M. Jones
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert ( Read more... ) -
Survivor
Re-posted from David M. Bailey
Chemo-Brain - July 31, 2009
So Today I learned a brand new word
I’m pretty sure it’s one I’ve heard
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Promote financial inclusion to make insurance more available.
Promote financial inclusion to make [Phil in the Blank] more available.
Always a good idea, promoting financial inclusion spreads the risks more evenly. Of course, the ultimate risk spread is via taxation, to all people. The Association of British Insurers in their January 2009 Preparing the UK for climate change: ABI's new adaptation strategy ( Read more... ) -
short story writing
i woke up at exactly 2 am twice this week so far...and it is only Tuesday!
Tonight, I rose to arrange my things for tomorrow into their customary places, rather than the scattered places where they sat. Then I climbed back into bed. No sooner had I been comfortably mummified again in the winter darkness than my dear cat Lucky softly barked a ( Read more... ) -
aloha ‘āina.
aloha ‘āina.
It's rather basic.
Love and care for the land, for it is the land that cares for you.
It's supremely complex.
Caring for the land, and by extension it's living inhabitants from the most endangered species to ourselves, means ensuring that everything else remains in or regains its dynamic balance. So loving the land means caring for the ( Read more... ) -
Up with the Dialogue
You can be any religion or none in America. That is one of the many rights that protectors of the amended Constitution admire in the U.S. No one truly admires uncritical thought, whether it be on the part of religious adherents or "my-country-right-or-wrong" zealots. That is one of the freedoms, obliquely, for which you may have fought; if so, our ( Read more... ) -
Just bought a replacement laptop
Hey friends!
Since this blog is my most personal, I thought I'd write of my experience buying an up-to-date replacement for my obsolete (3 year old) Compaq laptop PC. It's been good. Here's the background.
I'd started last July to provide GIS services and training to Roberta F. Burroughs and Associates, an excellent African-American woman-owned ( Read more... ) -
What a difference eight years makes
It is hard to believe that it was eight years ago that I began, tentatively, to record my thoughts on the WWW. These thoughts were mainly public observations rather than personal disclosures. My blogging peaked prior to the shocking 2000 U.S. general election, and again during the pileup that erupted in the disastrous Iraq war. As you can read ( Read more... )