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I feel like I've waited lifetimes for this book to be published.
From the New York Times, "the Holy Grail of the Unconscious" by Sara Corbett
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.
And yet between the book’s heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure — taking place entirely in his head — he finds it again.
that they knew he was there. In the news footage I saw, he had a bewildered look about him, because even then he was realizing that his fifteen minutes of fame wasn't going to happen. He wore the gun because he craved attention and confrontation. He wanted nothing more than to be thrown to the ground, stripped of his weapon, so that he could become the new poster child of the NRA. "SEE! LOOK, THEY'RE TAKING MY GUN AWAY!"
That was his first miserable failure of the day. The second was when he went on Hardball. Early in the interview, he looks down (he's got his notes) and begins what was certain (in his mind) to be a grand statement. Twitchy little Tweety, however, had other things in mind and abruptly cut him off, and then hammered him with yes-or-no questions that quickly painted Mister Tiny Penis McGunsville as a hypocritical stooge.
would classify DU in their "Citizens sharing points-of-view, with low-level ass-hattery" file. The really far Left types want nothing to do with (in their eyes) petty political discussion forums. Huh, I guess that makes me mid-Left.
But FR is a completely different story. I have seen posts on there that have curled my hair. In their culture of cultivated and prideful ignorance, the angriest, loudest, and ultimately most dangerous get carried away in their tunnel-visioned, vicious rants. They type things that they really shouldn't. And the NSA is good (especially good at hiding its tracks). They could read a post on FR (no hacking required, just registered user) and within an hour know what brand of diapers the Rethug is wearing, and when was the last time he bought ammo. And you can't blame the NSA for being prepared, as Right Extremism has become the predominant domestic terror threat.
I also do not understand why creationists didn't simply say that evolution was a mechanism of God's creation, God's way of showing us that things change, and giving us the tools to fully explore evolution (among other sciences). You raise the point of literal acceptance of the Bible, which is probably the most significant stumbling block preventing reconciliation of the faith on one side and the logic on the other. Problem is: the Bible was written by men, not God. And since it was first written, it has been slanted, rewritten, censored, and refabricated. The basic moral code of the Bible hasn't changed, which is perhaps one of its strongest points as a document, even though that moral code is basically a treatise on altruism and common sense among even the flimsiest of societies that wish to grow and prosper.
It's the "selective sight" that proponents of creaintelligent designtionism practice that is the ultimate collapse of their argument. "Evolution is just a theory!" they proclaim, failing to mention that the theory has not been significantly challenged for 200 years (that's also 200 years of hard evidence for natural selection). The Theory of Gravity is also just a theory, but you don't see the creationists attempting to replace that. Why? Gravity is not a life science, a study intimately tied to our own lives and well-being as evolution is. "Theory" implies that it's a guess (albeit an educated one), and that is as it should be: science, like life, is not static. As perception grows, a theory may be refined, re-defined, or even summarily rejected. Proponents of creaintelligent designtionism would have their "theory" (using quotes because they have failed to define their own hypothesis) be an end-all, even though it is based on the concept of some unseen being magically cooking up the heavens and the earth and everything in them in a couple of days.
That said, I'll go ahead and state my own beliefs: I do not believe in a fundamental creator. Rather, I believe that consciousness has evolved to give the universe a way to stand back and observe itself. Think about it: the universe is a monstrously huge place, and has had (according to recent studies backed up by hard data) almost 14 billion years to evolve. And here we are, humble naked apes, the production of that much time and space. Mind-blowing, yes. A miracle? We shouldn't flatter ourselves.
The antitrust case against Whole Foods was brought primarily due to their predatory behavior in areas where they faced direct competition. I'm not talking about the Ralph's or the Publix or the Safeways that have a single table of organic items, but rather the markets and groceries that specialized in organic items. With the one exception being the national chain Wild Oats, Whole Foods has dedicated itself to eradicating locally owned and operated natural food stores, typically small, regional chains. WF CEO John Mackey, perhaps most infamous for his pseudonymous email campaign which attempted to influence investors to drop their Wild Oats shares (and thus allow WF to gobble them up) regularly uses terms like "obliterate" when referring to localized competition. This is frustrating for me because, for many years, I saw John Mackey as a pioneer, taking point in the fight to inform consumers about their food choices. In the last two years, his behavior has been purely corporate, fueled by greed. Gone is the message of eating locally grown, sustainably harvested foods. Department managers have little or no say in what comes in from WF warehouses for them to sell.
Recently, my workplace came into their sights. In an attempt to defend themselves from the FTC's antitrust case, they subpoenaed several years' worth of my company's market analyses, expansion plans, and sales figures, all of which is highly proprietary. My company fought this subpoena (I told my boss: "Just don't answer it! It's all the rage these days--just ask Karl Rove and Harriet Miers!" but lost, and we are now forced to supply this data, at our own expense (last estimate was somewhere between $250k-$500k, a lot of dosh for a company with only nine locations).
It is very likely that several of the Wild Oats stores in our area will be the ones to close or sell (because, after WF took over Wild Oats, they shuttered numerous stores in this area, and the remaining stores are all under-performing). If 19 out of the 31 stores to close or sell are already closed, this appears very disingenuous.
in the nature programs are the slovenly males, sitting back most of the time while the prairie unfolds in front of them. Prone to rage, they'll even kill their own young. The lionesses bust their asses for these fleabitten slobs.
The chattering hyenas? Maybe not as falsely watermarked with nobility as the lions. But they're quick. And efficient. And adaptive.
I'm sure it's been done, but today, it felt good to Obama-fy our poet-prince of the living dead. In between glasses hoisted to our fine new president, raise one in memory of dear old Edgar Allan Poe, 200 years young today! It's a good thing his crypt is locked from the inside!
is to create a sense of propriety in the average American. They have an ownership stake. They have an interest. Couple that with pride and you get the stalwart public works structures we have obliviously enjoyed for decades (drive down Connecticut Turnpike and every overpass is an unique work of art). This is our time to put a stamp on the America we foresee: more efficient highways, rail, and power transmission. A subtraction of urban sprawl and the reemergence of urban agriculture. Community power generation to end the monopolies of federally subsidized power corps.
We've all been riding on the merry-go-round for a while. If we want to keep it going, and make it better, it's time to grease some wheels.
As much as we Americans demand the prosecution of these individuals, the only way the world will heal is if they are prosecuted by a globally mounted tribunal.
We should also consider the fact that Bush and Cheney, through the auspices of the Secret Service (and at a cost, each, exceeding $23 million over the next ten years) are basically going to be prisoners in their own sorry hides.
That and the vindication of the Constitution and a return to the rule of law (and of course, the impending success of the Obama presidency) should be enough punishment to send them to their graves.
