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Water is Two Parts Hydrogen and One Part Oxygen - Sam Harris

2012-02-09T16:48:00.001-08:00

Planning Ahead Can Make a Difference in the End

2012-02-03T10:36:00.001-08:00

by AARON FREEMAN

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675953

2012-01-16T12:25:00.001-08:00

A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientific Debate -- You're Welcome

2012-01-13T21:53:00.001-08:00

"Now, how does this apply to science? Let's say you are greatly displeased that a science journal posted a result that disagrees with you in some way. Maybe it's business, ideology, religious, or a personal vendetta. You could write a letter to the editor supporting or opposing some unrelated article and include a liberal sprinkling of copyrighted work within the letter. You would of course need a silent partner who owned the copyrighted work you cribbed from. The journal, in the interest of scientific discussion and openness, posts the work. Mission Accomplished! The journal's website is now responsible for publishing that copyrighted work.

Your friend can now try and use the Justice Department to financially execute the journal, which will likely result in their entire catalog (including the offending article) being thrown in disarray and possibly lost because they can no longer afford to operate. Since the journal owns the copyright to that work, the scientists cannot just reproduce the articles elsewhere. At the very least such actions would make scientific outlets rightfully suspicious of discussions that emanate from the general public."

Via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/michael-ham/sopa-congress_b_1195598.html

An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

2012-01-10T18:31:00.000-08:00

An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America

Go back!

2012-01-09T06:54:00.001-08:00

2012-01-09T06:47:00.001-08:00

The Trickle Down Theory

2012-01-05T19:56:00.001-08:00

2012-01-05T11:38:00.001-08:00

"All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

~ George Orwell

TENNESSEE: Christianists Push Bill To Legalize Bullying Based On Religion

2012-01-05T09:04:00.001-08:00

Rev. Phil Kayser who calls for the death penalty for homosexuality endorses Ron Paul

2012-01-05T06:09:00.001-08:00

Rev. Phil Kayser, who has deep Christian reconstructionist (also known as theonomist) ties has endorse Ron Paul.

Kayser posted a 60-page book in which he justifies the death penalty for homosexuality (on page 24):

"I should think that theonomists would be happy with this understanding of Biblical capital crimes since it is the Bible and the Bible alone that determines ethics.

But I would think that those who are concerned about how Biblical penology would apply in a pagan society and how it would dovetail with evangelism would be happy because Biblical penology beautifully dovetails with God's program of the Great Commission. There is no tension between Biblical law and the Great Commission.

For example, in a society that was being converted, homosexuals could continue to be converted as they were in the church of Corinth.

Even after a society implemented Biblical law and made homosexuality a crime, there are many checks and balances that would be in place. ... The civil government could not round them up.

Only those who were prosecuted by citizens could be punished, and the punishment could take a number of forms, including death. This would have a tendency of driving homosexuals back into their closets. "

....Ron Paul has accepted Rev Kaiser endorsement

Via http://huff.to/zGCVAd

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test,

2012-01-04T13:42:00.001-08:00

"Serial killer psychopaths ruin families. Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."

-Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test,

2012-01-03T05:55:00.001-08:00

Matter

2012-01-02T20:05:00.001-08:00

"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you."
- Richard Dawkins

2012-01-02T19:31:00.003-08:00

My theology

2012-01-02T19:31:00.001-08:00

“My theology is a simple muddle. I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind.”

— Charles Darwin

2011-12-29T13:22:00.001-08:00

Miles Davis

2011-12-29T12:57:00.001-08:00

“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?”

—
Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source
(via marxisforbros

If there is a sin against life...

2011-12-27T18:44:00.001-08:00

“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

— Albert Camus

Gandhi 7 Sins

2011-12-25T20:25:00.001-08:00

2011-12-23T15:54:00.001-08:00

Reason's Greetings

2011-12-22T15:10:00.001-08:00

2011-12-22T13:15:00.001-08:00

“They’ve promised us that dreams come true - but forgot that nightmares are dreams too.”

— Oscar Wilde

Love is all

2011-12-22T12:13:00.001-08:00

2011-12-22T12:12:00.001-08:00

“Congress is on the verge of wrecking the greatest engine of innovation and greatest platform for democracy ever known to human kind.

2011-12-20T20:03:00.001-08:00

“Congress is on the verge of wrecking the greatest engine of innovation and greatest platform for democracy ever known to human kind. And for what? For the sake of propping up an ossified industry that refuses to change with the times, but happens to make a lot of campaign contributions.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html

2011-12-20T16:33:00.001-08:00

“Animals are my friends. And I don’t eat my friends.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Ooohh I wish

2011-12-20T14:51:00.001-08:00

“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post

2011-12-19T19:21:00.001-08:00

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-new-model-of-empathy-the-rat/2011/12/08/gIQAAx0jfO_story.html

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for.

2011-12-18T07:17:00.000-08:00

We all long for a bright future.

2011-12-18T07:04:00.000-08:00

Royal Oak, MINovember 13, 2011Brian Day

Al Franken on the defense authorization act

2011-12-18T05:30:00.001-08:00

“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60 years, authorize the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charge or trial, according to its advocates. This would be the first time that Congress has deviated from President Nixon’s Non-Detention Act. And what we are talking about here is that Americans could be subjected to life imprisonment without ever being charged, tried, or convicted of a crime, without ever having an opportunity to prove their innocence to a judge or a jury of their peers. And without the government ever having to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I think that denigrates the very foundations of this country. It denigrates the Bill of Rights. It denigrates what our Founders intended when they created a civilian, non-military justice system for trying and punishing people for crimes committed on U.S. soil. Our Founders were fearful of the military—and they purposely created a system of checks and balances to ensure we did not become a country under military rule. This bill undermines that core principle, which is why I could not support it.”

Al Franken - U.S. Senator, Minnesota
alfranken.com/

Galileo Galilei

2011-12-17T19:46:00.001-08:00

I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night -

(Source: signmysignature, via forumgamer)

2011-12-17T18:16:00.001-08:00

2011-12-17T17:24:00.001-08:00

2011-12-17T11:32:00.001-08:00

Will 2012 Be 1984: DRM and SOPA are Breaking The Internet! via www.singularityweblog.com

2011-12-17T10:07:00.000-08:00

Imagine a world where someone has a monopoly over the media, backed by the power to ban personal privacy and political dissent and capable of preventing people from public gathering and collective discussion without due process, judicial review or any evidence! Sound familiar?! Some of you might venture a guess that the above text reads like a passage from George Orwell’s 1984. Others might say that it sounds like the situation under the totalitarian regimes of the former Eastern Block or any other contemporary authoritarian. It is vital to realize, however, that this is not only fiction. This is not just the situation in some geographically obscure country stuck in the last 6 seconds of the evening newscast. This is in fact the future reality that we might be facing today, here, in the “free world.” This is Canada, the United States and the E.U.

we are all connected

2011-09-10T13:04:00.001-07:00

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." ~Hugh Downs

Quotes from our Founding Fathers on Christianity

2011-09-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there will never be any liberal science in the world.- John Adams, Founding Father and 2nd President of the United StatesWe discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .- Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and 3rd President of the United StatesLighthouses are more helpful than churches.In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it.I looked around for God’s judgments, but saw no signs of them.The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.- Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, scientist, inventor, educatorTake away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.- Thomas Paine, leader of the American RevolutionVia @princedarwin

New Republican Budget

2011-04-09T07:32:00.001-07:00

Influence without indoctrination (Parenting Beyond Belief #4)

2011-04-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

“I’ve learned"

2011-04-08T15:22:00.000-07:00

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

2011-04-05T18:03:00.001-07:00

“Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything — anything — be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.”

— Sam Harris, on religion (via liberal-life)

A few times in my life...

2011-03-13T20:01:00.000-07:00

“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.Christopher Isherwood Quotes (Author of A Single Man)

Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck

2011-03-07T05:46:00.000-08:00

You Can Support Wis. Senators Who Are Standing with Workers | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

2011-03-05T19:32:00.000-08:00

You Can Support Wis. Senators Who Are Standing with Workers | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

Boehner on losing jobs because of drastic cuts:

2011-02-17T12:57:00.000-08:00

Boehner on losing jobs because of drastic cuts:

The New Tithe by Justin Wilson

2011-02-17T10:49:00.000-08:00

The New Tithe from Justin Wilson on Vimeo.

‎"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems...

2011-02-12T11:33:00.000-08:00

‎"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." - Albert Einstein

— Sam Harris~ letter to a christian ration (quote)

2011-02-12T11:29:00.000-08:00

“if you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. once again, we need look no further than the Jains; Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: ‘do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.’ imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible. it is impossible to behave this way by adhering to the principles of Jainism. how, then, can you argue that the Bible provides the clearest statement of morality the world has ever seen?”

— Sam Harris, letter to a christian nation

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Sunflower Sutra

2011-02-02T14:42:00.000-08:00

--We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed
by our own seed & golden hairy naked
accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.

Allen Ginsberg ~Berkeley, 1955

http://http://boppin.com/sunflower.html

Mario Benedetti ~ Amor de Tarde

2011-01-31T15:18:00.000-08:00

Es una lástima que no estés conmigo
cuando miro el reloj y son las cuatro
y acabo la planilla y pienso diez minutos
y estiro las piernas como todas las tardes
y hago así con los hombros para aflojar la espalda
y me doblo los dedos y les saco mentiras.

Es una lástima que no estés conmigo
cuando miro el reloj y son las cinco
y soy una manija que calcula intereses
o dos manos que saltan sobre cuarenta teclas
o un oído que escucha como ladra el teléfono
o un tipo que hace números y les saca verdades.

Es una lástima que no estés conmigo
cuando miro el reloj y son las seis.
Podrías acercarte de sorpresa
y decirme "¿Qué tal?" y quedaríamos
yo con la mancha roja de tus labios
tú con el tizne azul de mi carbónico.

I'm the one

2011-01-31T03:42:00.000-08:00

I'm the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Jimi Hendrix

Sam Harris: A response to critics:

2011-01-30T00:56:00.000-08:00

"For those unfamiliar with my book, here is my argument in brief: Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds -- and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe. Conscious minds and their states are natural phenomenon, of course, fully constrained by the laws of Nature (whatever these turn out to be in the end). Therefore, there must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life".

read the complete article here

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Give to every other human being

2011-01-28T14:47:00.000-08:00

"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself".

Thomas Paine~

Adapt

2011-01-26T06:09:00.000-08:00

Adapt.

thanks to @nickholmes

Cognitive dissonance

2011-01-25T07:47:00.000-08:00

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief”

—
Frantz Fanon (via mohandasgandhi)

Guess the Quote: “If this is ‘socialism,’ what would capitalism look like?”

2011-01-24T17:18:00.000-08:00

Guess the Quote: “If this is ‘socialism,’ what would capitalism look like?”

Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says

2011-01-23T08:36:00.000-08:00

Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says

Clarence Thomas is a traitor who sold his country for a fistful of dollars

What the Right Gains From Poisoning Our Political Discourse and Inspiring Violence | | AlterNet

2011-01-20T09:35:00.000-08:00

What the Right Gains From Poisoning Our Political Discourse and Inspiring Violence | | AlterNet

How Traumatic Events Change Our View Of Language by GEOFF NUNBERG

2011-01-20T05:21:00.000-08:00

"Sarah Palin was right. It was irresponsible for people to say she had anything to do with the Tucson shootings. I'm not sure why she had to bring "blood libel" and the persecution of the medieval Jews into it. But she could certainly say it was a bum rap.

But people kept talking about political rhetoric even after the facts came out. For some, it was just an opportunity to bash the right. But most people were worried about the potential for violence. In polls, the majority of Americans said the tone of debate is so inflammatory that it could Push people over the edge"

This is America

2011-01-18T02:28:00.000-08:00

“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.”

—
Mark Shields, PBS

New Rules: Bill Maher to the Teabaggers - The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts | Video Cafe

2011-01-15T12:49:00.000-08:00

New Rules: Bill Maher to the Teabaggers - The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Your Guts | Video Cafe

CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil

2011-01-15T01:38:00.000-08:00

The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
One of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet.
An inside look at the infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, CRUDE is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures.
Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film examines a complicated situation from several angles while bringing a story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

Watch the full documentary now

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Sri Chinmoy

2011-01-15T01:27:00.000-08:00

"Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being."

Tree of Failure by David Brooks

2011-01-14T15:07:00.000-08:00

In a famous passage, Reinhold Niebuhr put it best: “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. ... Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness "

Enough Is Enough - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review

2011-01-11T11:44:00.000-08:00

Enough Is Enough - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Video on TED.com

2011-01-11T08:39:00.000-08:00

Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Video on TED.com

Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

2011-01-10T06:57:00.000-08:00

Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

For what is it to die

2010-12-28T12:24:00.000-08:00

“For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.”

— Kahlil Gibran

Every gun that is made...

2010-12-27T00:53:00.000-08:00

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

President Dwight Eisenhower

Thomas Paine quote

2010-12-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." -

Thomas Paine

ROBERT CREAMER: During the Holidays We Celebrate Progressive Values

2010-12-26T12:25:00.000-08:00

When you think of the heroes and heroines of American -- and world -- history you think of the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Cesar Chavez, Robert Kennedy, Mohandas Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt...

...Let's be clear: "Greed is good" is not being celebrated at Christmas. The values of Ebenezer Scrooge do not define the Christmas spirit -- past, present or future. More tax breaks for the top one percent is not the moral of A Christmas Carol.

Read article here

Foxhole Atheist Gets ‘A’ Tattoo for Christmas

2010-12-26T08:11:00.000-08:00

Foxhole Atheist Gets ‘A’ Tattoo for Christmas

love is...

2010-12-25T14:08:00.000-08:00

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats

Anti-intellectualism in the US

2010-12-23T12:00:00.000-08:00

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”.”

— Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science fiction author (1920-1992)

why hell was invented

2010-12-22T13:51:00.000-08:00

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. ~ Bertrand Russell -

No defense of superstition and pseudoscience

2010-12-22T13:50:00.000-08:00

It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people… If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with. ~ Isaac Asimov

The Hidden Motivation of Regret

2010-12-21T03:00:00.000-08:00

The Hidden Motivationi of Regret

It's What You Don't Do That Haunts You

If something is really, honestly indefensible, it can be defeated.

2010-12-18T16:43:00.000-08:00

"If something is really, honestly indefensible, it can be defeated. The people perpetrating that indefensible thing will want you to think that what they are doing is inevitable. They will want you to think that it cannot possibly be changed or fixed. That it is the way it has to be, that that is the way it's gonna be, they will want you to think those things. And it's not true. An indefensible practice or policy is, in America, vulnerable."

- Rachel Maddow

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

2010-11-30T07:10:00.000-08:00

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

It’s Official: More Private Sector Jobs Created In 2010 Than During Entire Bush Years

2010-11-27T20:12:00.000-08:00

It’s Official: More Private Sector Jobs Created In 2010 Than During Entire Bush Years

Religious States the Fattest

2010-11-24T07:05:00.000-08:00

Religious States the Fattest

Tea Party candidate’s company seeks bankruptcy protection

2010-09-04T14:27:00.000-07:00

Tea Party candidate’s company seeks bankruptcy protection

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

2010-08-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

2010-08-28T07:45:00.000-07:00

RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment

2010-08-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

“I didn’t get my inspiration from Karl Marx

2010-08-26T17:34:00.001-07:00

“I didn’t get my inspiration from Karl Marx; I got it from a man named Jesus, a Galilean saint who said he was anointed to heal the broken-hearted. He was anointed to deal with the problems of the poor. And that is where we get our inspiration. And we go out in a day when we have a message for the world, and we can change this world and we can change this nation.”

-- MLK, Jr. quoted in "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Clayborne Carson, Ed., p. 351.

Divide & Conquer (Don't Be A Sucker)

2010-08-25T18:04:00.000-07:00

Spandau Ballet - True

2010-08-25T17:49:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite song!

Cecilia and Juliana

2010-08-23T20:47:00.000-07:00

WAR

2010-08-20T12:09:00.000-07:00

Dir: Tomek Baginski / Poland / 2005

In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity.

For more info: http://www.fallen-art.com/

For Latinas, A Fine Line Between Reproductive Justice and Eugenics : Ms Magazine Blog

2010-08-13T16:37:00.000-07:00

For Latinas, A Fine Line Between Reproductive Justice and Eugenics : Ms Magazine Blog

I've seen EARTHLINGS

2010-08-12T12:49:00.000-07:00

I've seen EARTHLINGS

Please watch this movie

Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

2010-07-29T19:22:00.000-07:00

Another Brick In The Wall (Hey Ayatollah, Leave Those Kids Alone!)

2010-07-29T14:16:00.000-07:00

Bertrand Russell on God (1959)

2010-07-27T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Tide Is Turning

2010-07-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

Welcome To This World

2010-07-18T04:02:00.000-07:00

What if the Tea Party was Black?

2010-07-15T04:25:00.000-07:00