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The world moves on apace. My professional self and his scholarly apprentice enjoy the idea that video games are useful bait to get people to read (they are!) and medieval images of the "mystery plays", which satisfying the Bachelor in me.
I pop an inquisitive eyebrow at the great losses of the twenty-first century, because it looks like the question being asked is whether or not, if we took away all the doodads and the technology, whether people could focus, have fun, invent, and create art. Which we all are doing, just nowadays, it incorporates the technology as much as it can be done apart from it. We’ve had these arguments before, I’m sure, with new technology and entertainment. The book probably meant laments about how nobody memorized any more, and television lamented how nobody was reading any more, or using their imaginations with the radio shows, but there’s a lot of work being done in art and storytelling and all those other things - it just might be with computers to aid along.
Internationally, Christian security forces are appearing in some villages in Iraq, funded by Christians here in the states, and possibly making for tensions between them and the predominantly Muslim official security forces. Additionally, Egypt sending a diplomat to Iraq, indicating some approval, trying to convert some of Afghanistan's militants to fighting the Taliban, as Pakistan does some deportation from the tribal region on the border, a possible reduced ransom on the pirated ship full of tanks and weapons, Russia continuing to behave like it will actually honor the cease-fire agreement,
A Tokyo man went skinny-dipping in the palace moat, arrested for the incident. From those who know what’s there, they’re surprised that he went swimming in there at all. It being a thing for keeping intruders out, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were things that could chomp a person up.
a suicidal teeanger was urged to jump by onlookers, taking pictures and video with their mobiles, all the way from the beginning to the deadly end. And no doubt then spread it around to the places they could put it. This sounds remarkably like the plots of some books and television episodes. Does the desire for “entertainment” really trump the voice in our head that says we should be trying to preserve lives?
A man was shot three times for wearing the T-shirt of Senator Obama, by someone who was obviously thinking by race rather than by common humanity. It’s outmoded, but it apparently works for some, enough that they feel the need to try and silence others who are promoting the other worldview.
In Canada, where there is also an election slated soon, a severe case of life-threatening vandalism has broken out across the country against Liberal supporters in a Toronto riding. No, bad, don’t start copying U.S. techniques! Canada is supposed to be above that kind of thing.
Domestically, bacon sent to Representative's office, building cleared as a precaution, because it was dripping oily stuff on the floor. A symptom of the terror-afraid society, and I want to know why they don’t screen all the incoming mail with the X-ray device they eventually found. Of maybe it’s just incompetence, like the border guards who detained someone with a sketch of an SUV, claiming she was infringing copyright.
Your tax dollars at work - after being bailed out, AIG paid for the executives to go on a luxury spa retreat, to the tune of more than $400,000. Well, those who were running bets can collect, and the rest of us? Well, it might be a good idea to withdraw that guarantee and let AIG bounce off the bottom once before buying them out as a bankrupt company. It may happen anyway - the stock market certainly isn't showing gains. And had they been able to get funding, Lehman Brothers would have been paying executives lots even as they pleaded for help. At least we’re not blaming the whole thing as a failure of the "welfare state", right?
The Republican National Committee is filing a Federal Elections Commission Complaint about Barack Obama's fundraising, claiming that he willingly and knowingly accepted money from foreign nationals, a violation of the FEC’s rules.
Of course, for some people, it could be slowing to a crawl, or that last few ticks right before the big explosion. Sarah Palin is becoming a liability, as the campaign lets her be herself to all her supporters, which makes for blaming everything on someone else, usually Obama, and giving voice to all of those old discredited smears and sending them out again, not that McCain is helping his cause any. And some of the supporters are stopping to really low levels, including repeating the Osama-Obama smear, to the point of calling him not an American and not welcome, and twisting the presence of a member of the Los Angeles NOW introducing Governor Palin into the endorsement of that chapter of the NOW for Governor Palin.
So, once again for emphasis, anti-Palin does not mean anti-women, and shame on anyone who believes one cannot be against someone who will hurt women if she is a woman. After all, according to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperwise, Joe Six-Pack is us, diverse ideas, jobs, and alignments that we have, and anyone trying to pin all of us down as dumb and easily manipulated closet racists who will believe that abortion and preventing homosexuals from obtaining legal beenfits is more important than anything else is embarking on a fool’s errand. The choices people make in elections have effects that ripple down. We should be making choices that let women live the lives they've chosen, and not remove their ability to choose the life for them.
That said, at least there’s been no accusation of voodoo being done to hinder the campaign. And, in case of problems, there are instructions that could be followed, even if they aren’t the best ones. And in her defence, Sarah Palin has people wanting to ask "gotcha" questions to newsanchors,
The anti-Obama attacks are coming out of the woodwork - charity donations of the vice presidential candidates, a claim that Obama lies when he says he didn't work for ACORN, which apparently means he's a-okay with voter fraud, trying to gotcha him with the fact that a senator stumping for him was also involved in the Keating Five scandal, trying to deflate any hope on Senator Obama's tax plans, proclamations that John McCain is really the health-care reformer, using the post Sept. 11 goodwill as a refutation of the ugly fear-driven politics of the last few years, along with using the early autobiography as a refutation of the later positions that the Senator takes, and rehashing the "people that Barack Obama has been allied with, the dirty anti-American country-haters" argument.
A positive story to help move all of the negative sentiments away - many years ago, a young man helped an newly wed American get to her husband in Norway when she was hit with an unexpected luggage surcharge. She still remembered who helped her, even quite a while after she paid him back for his generosity. That young man is now running for President of the United States. Read the story to find out who it was that helped a fellow out in a tight spot.
In our science realms, houseplants blog, a massively multiplayer future-prediction game, wireless at fiber speeds (assuming that wireless at light speeds doesn't overtake it), putting on the Turing test to the latest batch of communicators, holographic television as a possible reality, a way to curb drunken e-mails, converting a phone jack so that it hides a USB device, China possibly requiring firms to reveal secret data before their products can be sold in China, and bringing the penguins home.
Ah, yes, and the annual Ig Nobel prizes.
Last for tonight, a retrospective and respect for Weird Al Yankvoic, still culturally relevant, or trying, as the culture underneath him fractures and becomes that much ahrder to parody. It’s like someone's mashing up My Little Pony and C'htulhu, but it’s gone before it can become popular.
That’s all for tonight.
I pop an inquisitive eyebrow at the great losses of the twenty-first century, because it looks like the question being asked is whether or not, if we took away all the doodads and the technology, whether people could focus, have fun, invent, and create art. Which we all are doing, just nowadays, it incorporates the technology as much as it can be done apart from it. We’ve had these arguments before, I’m sure, with new technology and entertainment. The book probably meant laments about how nobody memorized any more, and television lamented how nobody was reading any more, or using their imaginations with the radio shows, but there’s a lot of work being done in art and storytelling and all those other things - it just might be with computers to aid along.
Internationally, Christian security forces are appearing in some villages in Iraq, funded by Christians here in the states, and possibly making for tensions between them and the predominantly Muslim official security forces. Additionally, Egypt sending a diplomat to Iraq, indicating some approval, trying to convert some of Afghanistan's militants to fighting the Taliban, as Pakistan does some deportation from the tribal region on the border, a possible reduced ransom on the pirated ship full of tanks and weapons, Russia continuing to behave like it will actually honor the cease-fire agreement,
A Tokyo man went skinny-dipping in the palace moat, arrested for the incident. From those who know what’s there, they’re surprised that he went swimming in there at all. It being a thing for keeping intruders out, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were things that could chomp a person up.
a suicidal teeanger was urged to jump by onlookers, taking pictures and video with their mobiles, all the way from the beginning to the deadly end. And no doubt then spread it around to the places they could put it. This sounds remarkably like the plots of some books and television episodes. Does the desire for “entertainment” really trump the voice in our head that says we should be trying to preserve lives?
A man was shot three times for wearing the T-shirt of Senator Obama, by someone who was obviously thinking by race rather than by common humanity. It’s outmoded, but it apparently works for some, enough that they feel the need to try and silence others who are promoting the other worldview.
In Canada, where there is also an election slated soon, a severe case of life-threatening vandalism has broken out across the country against Liberal supporters in a Toronto riding. No, bad, don’t start copying U.S. techniques! Canada is supposed to be above that kind of thing.
Domestically, bacon sent to Representative's office, building cleared as a precaution, because it was dripping oily stuff on the floor. A symptom of the terror-afraid society, and I want to know why they don’t screen all the incoming mail with the X-ray device they eventually found. Of maybe it’s just incompetence, like the border guards who detained someone with a sketch of an SUV, claiming she was infringing copyright.
Your tax dollars at work - after being bailed out, AIG paid for the executives to go on a luxury spa retreat, to the tune of more than $400,000. Well, those who were running bets can collect, and the rest of us? Well, it might be a good idea to withdraw that guarantee and let AIG bounce off the bottom once before buying them out as a bankrupt company. It may happen anyway - the stock market certainly isn't showing gains. And had they been able to get funding, Lehman Brothers would have been paying executives lots even as they pleaded for help. At least we’re not blaming the whole thing as a failure of the "welfare state", right?
The Republican National Committee is filing a Federal Elections Commission Complaint about Barack Obama's fundraising, claiming that he willingly and knowingly accepted money from foreign nationals, a violation of the FEC’s rules.
Of course, for some people, it could be slowing to a crawl, or that last few ticks right before the big explosion. Sarah Palin is becoming a liability, as the campaign lets her be herself to all her supporters, which makes for blaming everything on someone else, usually Obama, and giving voice to all of those old discredited smears and sending them out again, not that McCain is helping his cause any. And some of the supporters are stopping to really low levels, including repeating the Osama-Obama smear, to the point of calling him not an American and not welcome, and twisting the presence of a member of the Los Angeles NOW introducing Governor Palin into the endorsement of that chapter of the NOW for Governor Palin.
So, once again for emphasis, anti-Palin does not mean anti-women, and shame on anyone who believes one cannot be against someone who will hurt women if she is a woman. After all, according to
copperwise, Joe Six-Pack is us, diverse ideas, jobs, and alignments that we have, and anyone trying to pin all of us down as dumb and easily manipulated closet racists who will believe that abortion and preventing homosexuals from obtaining legal beenfits is more important than anything else is embarking on a fool’s errand. The choices people make in elections have effects that ripple down. We should be making choices that let women live the lives they've chosen, and not remove their ability to choose the life for them.That said, at least there’s been no accusation of voodoo being done to hinder the campaign. And, in case of problems, there are instructions that could be followed, even if they aren’t the best ones. And in her defence, Sarah Palin has people wanting to ask "gotcha" questions to newsanchors,
The anti-Obama attacks are coming out of the woodwork - charity donations of the vice presidential candidates, a claim that Obama lies when he says he didn't work for ACORN, which apparently means he's a-okay with voter fraud, trying to gotcha him with the fact that a senator stumping for him was also involved in the Keating Five scandal, trying to deflate any hope on Senator Obama's tax plans, proclamations that John McCain is really the health-care reformer, using the post Sept. 11 goodwill as a refutation of the ugly fear-driven politics of the last few years, along with using the early autobiography as a refutation of the later positions that the Senator takes, and rehashing the "people that Barack Obama has been allied with, the dirty anti-American country-haters" argument.
A positive story to help move all of the negative sentiments away - many years ago, a young man helped an newly wed American get to her husband in Norway when she was hit with an unexpected luggage surcharge. She still remembered who helped her, even quite a while after she paid him back for his generosity. That young man is now running for President of the United States. Read the story to find out who it was that helped a fellow out in a tight spot.
In our science realms, houseplants blog, a massively multiplayer future-prediction game, wireless at fiber speeds (assuming that wireless at light speeds doesn't overtake it), putting on the Turing test to the latest batch of communicators, holographic television as a possible reality, a way to curb drunken e-mails, converting a phone jack so that it hides a USB device, China possibly requiring firms to reveal secret data before their products can be sold in China, and bringing the penguins home.
Ah, yes, and the annual Ig Nobel prizes.
Last for tonight, a retrospective and respect for Weird Al Yankvoic, still culturally relevant, or trying, as the culture underneath him fractures and becomes that much ahrder to parody. It’s like someone's mashing up My Little Pony and C'htulhu, but it’s gone before it can become popular.
That’s all for tonight.
