tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71238432011-09-01T09:09:41.002-06:00<img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40856000/jpg/_40856476_tian_ap.jpg"> <p> Thoughts on the wonders and absurdities of the human species. <p> "As things fell apart, nobody paid much attention." <i>-Talking Heads</i></p></p>Andrew Armigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16299003349943214217noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123843.post-84249949099463523712010-03-05T14:15:00.003-07:002010-03-05T14:33:18.718-07:00

http://www.fastcompany.com/1567383/eye-candy-ok-gos-insane-rube-goldberg-machine

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I had never heard of Robert Jensen previously and I am now interested in his work. His latest book, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, from which he pulls content for the interview, expresses many thoughts that ring amazingly true to me.The interview is contained in the final approx. 30 minutes (starting at the 62-minute mark) of either of the following

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Debunking the Rationale for War in Afghanistan

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All but four of the teams in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament had graduation rates of less than 80%. The worst of the lot were under 50%: Arizona (20%), Connecticut (33%), Missouri (36%), and Louisville (42%). Not that according to the report, players who left early to declare for the NBA had been removed from the statistics used.http://www.tidesport.org/Grad%20Rates/2009_

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WOW! Another installment in the theme of 'people who take themselves far too seriously.'

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From Jimmy Shapiro's great blog, Sports Radio Interviews:http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2009/04/01/all-politicians-have-an-agenda/

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From a not-so-recent interview with the great David Byrne:Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. Well… Take this tour. We recently went through Nashville and made contact with musicians that I know there. Went through Memphis the next day and visited the son of Bill Eggleston, the photographer. Went to the Stax Museum. Teeny Hodges, the guy who co-wrote "Take Me To the

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Web content of the profile/interview:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694714.shtml

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Just saw a promo that Mike Leach will be interviewed on 60 Minutes this week.  More than just a good football coach, he is an innovator in finding an unorthodox path to success and is just quite an interesting character:http://emuss.blogspot.com/search?q=Leachhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

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Stumbled upon this vid, and though I am no fan of the B.O. this is actually genuinely funny.  Okay, and it does not hurt that she is truly babe-a-licious:

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http://www.mormonsstoleourrights.com/http://www.mormonsstoleourrights.com/#petition

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No, the war in Iraq is nothing like Vietnam!  You see, in Vietnam the US began raiding a neighboring country, Cambodia . . . Witnesses: US helicopters attack Syrian village

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Game definitely over for McCain/Palin.http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1851832,00.html?imw=Y

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An Undisciplined Spoiled Brat

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Excellent poem, by Tatiana Jacobsen and c/o Andrea Gibson's blog:I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM MY HOUSE!

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Last week I opened my mailbox to find an item that featured photos of the faces of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Osama bin Laden, and Kim Jong-Il superimposed over a background image of a tank, with the following text in bold, all-caps letters above and below the visual: DANGEROUS TIMES DEMAND EXPERIENCE. Why not go ahead and throw in references to the "Red Menace," as well? It would be no

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Beijing air quality, Chinese government manipulation, and IOC arrogance:

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So, I heard on the radio this afternoon that famed author Barbara Ehrenreich would be doing a reading from her latest book, This Land is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation, followed by a Q&A this evening and so headed down to the Boulder Bookstore to take it in. Much to my chagrin, thanks to zero mention of this on the Boulder Bookstore's website or in what I heard on the radio, I found

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So this evening I dropped by a grocery store to pick up a few necessities yet did not really care to spend much time doddering around, cruising and perusing the aisles. I had everything I had come for except for frozen juice. When I got to that aisle, a woman was standing directly in front of that freezer door looking perlexed. She then proceeded to pseudosquare-dance with the door, opening it

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As much as it may be a pipe dream, at least some within the system are not afraid to speak their minds:“The Canadians are not worried about their football and basketball teams,” said Levitt. “We'd be better off without athletics.”Taken from ColoradoDaily.com

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You Are 24 Years OldUnder 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.30-39: You are a thirtysomething at

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Every once in a while I come across a 'gem' such as this one. It confounds me how someone with the responsibility of writing a column on running in the sports section of a supposedly reputable newspaper thinks that the best use for the space is, rather than a focus on the top competitors - local or otherwise - or any other topic that would actually be pertinent to the sport, to profile someone

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Sunday evening I obtained the best album, by far, that I have acquired this year. Okay, being that the year is but six days old at this point, I will qualify further and aver that it is the best one I have acquired since I got Franz Ferdinand's eponymous debut album, which has been well over a year. That album would be DeVotchKa's How It Ends, which was actually released in 2004. Though I do

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A Day In Iraq

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Gambaccini's typical lobs of softballs and bouquets (and lack of clarifying follow-ups) and Ms. Akor's speech patterns shaped by a life that has been essentially split between SoCal and her native Nigeria make for one of the sillier and harder to read interviews that I have seen, even on RWOL.

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Damn.

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It comes as little surprise that the likes of professors LaVelle and Brown would resort to press sensationalism to snipe pettily with pious indignation at a colleague with superior status to get their own names mentioned in the national media. Being that each is a member of prestigious 3rd Tier and 4th Tier (respectively) institutions of supposed higher learning (as compared with nationally 74th

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My pirate name is: Dirty Davy Flint You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

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Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper was onto something, after all . . . apparently water fluoridation is indeed a harmful plot, albeit a capitalist rather than communist one: [Volumes] of new research that puts the fluoride-tooth decay link on shaky ground and even shows low levels of fluoride exposure over time can cause a host of ailments, including skeletal problems, hip fractures, migraines and cancer.

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I was almost floored reading the following quoted passage, taken from an article on the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, and it helps me better appreciate the freedoms afforded US citizens and athletes. What a restrictive bureaucracy to have every single race dictated or requiring approval by federation officials; were I in their shoes I would waste no time in bolting to a country whose federation

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There seems to be no end to the gall that Republicans have in spending huge sums of money on a project that has no realistic benefit to anyone outside of the military-industrial complex, as evidenced in the following quote gleaned from this latest piece from the hand of the ever superb Molly Ivins: Speaking of both radar and stupid government, for a truly pathological example of how ideological

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First, the apparently imagined threat of Iraqi WMD was thwarted with the invasion of that country and capture of its former leader, Saddam Hussein. Now another important piece in the puzzle of keeping America's shores secure from the menace of international terrorism has been successfully placed with the detainment and deportation of one Yusuf Islam -- formerly known as Cat Stevens. We should

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An exposé on gamers turned up this gem: "It was in Korea last year that a 22-year-old man, identified by JoonAng Daily as Mr Jin, was arrested for playing the new version of Lineage, Lineage 2, in an internet cafe without paying. He started playing the game on November 29 and was finally dragged from the computer on December 17, 438 hours and 38 minutes later. Police reported that he had not

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Florida is now in the same league as Washington. This woman is pretty hot, too. As reported by the AP: A newlywed middle school teacher has been charged with having sex numerous times with a 14-year-old student, including in a classroom, her apartment and once in a vehicle while his 15-year-old cousin drove. Debra Beasley Lafave, 23, turned herself in to Marion County authorities in Ocala

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I first heard the music of Franz Ferdinand on a great local radio station as a song selected in their top 12 albums of the week countdown this past spring. That one song was so good and hooked my interest so much that I went and bought the CD on the strength of that track alone. It proved to be a great investment, as it is easily one of the best CDs that I have bought in years -- it is

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So, I used the ticket I bought last night for the 1:00 showing of Fahrenheit 9/11 at my local theater. It was one heck of a film, exceptionally well-done, and will warrant at least one more viewing, perhaps when it inevitably screens at the Boulder Theater. Michael Moore presented quite a load of complex information, though he does make apparent the ties between Bush, his cronies in business,

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I attempted to go see Michael Moore's latest offering, Fahrenheit 9/11, but found out that I would have had to have arrived at the theater much earlier than 30 minutes prior to showtime to get a ticket . . . I got there at 6:30 hoping to get in on the 7:00 screening and all shows were sold-out, excepting the one at 12:30 a.m. Since I was there, I got a ticket for a Saturday matinee and ended up

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People like the Ramseys are simply disgusting. I get the weird feeling that John Ramsey is not sincerely interested in public service as much as he is in promoting himself. From Ramsey jumps on campaign trail Republican's platform revolves around JonBenet: John Ramsey greets voters at his campaign office with a handshake, a free hot dog — and a book that declares he didn't kill his daughter.

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Of blogs and children: "Weblogs are sometimes criticised for being the self-obsessed ramblings of people who have little to say and too much time on their hands in which to do it. But there are gems out there - including many sites created by children." "They are really involved. They know it's different, they now have something that lets them speak with their own voice. Adults tend to tell

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I usually find Moore's work to be quite entertaining and I expect this would be no different. I hope Fahrenheit 9/11 screens locally soon. In a recent interview he said he holds Blair "more responsible for this war in Iraq than I do George W Bush". "Blair knows better. Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?" Moore told Reuters.

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Something one is not likely to see much of in these days of rampant revisionist apologia: holding nothing back. Going by the mainstream press (though there is certainly good reason not to given in the above-linked editorial) there would seem to be a sentimental yearning for what everyone was led to believe were the good old days. Never before have so many been so conned by so little actual

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Now, many hours later, the previously cited AP article has mysteriously disappeared and instead mention of the protesters can be found: 400 protest Bush Though a similar reference to Bush supporters (as well as a similar lack of reference to protesters) appears in this article, Bush: Freedom prevails, this unrelated photograph and caption accompanied the online version: Sammy Dallal John Foster

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I am left with the distinct impression that since the media is supposedly so dominated by liberals then the following passage from President outlines ideology of war on terror to Air Force graduates: Several dozen Bush supporters cheered and waved campaign signs along the road into the academy, which is nestled in the Rocky Mountain foothills near Pikes Peak. c/o the AP must be an extremely

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Really makes one wonder how many times he had managed to get away with it before he was caught . . . ick. And how was he able to catch a hen but not his wife? Man Commits Suicide After Sex with Hen LUSAKA (Reuters) - A 50-year-old Zambian man has hanged himself after his wife found him having sex with a hen, police said Friday. The woman caught him in the act when she rushed into their house

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Though I had hoped for more response to the previously noted open letter from the former coach, B.M., that he had published in some local dailies, Larry Tepper certainly provided some perspective, as well as noting an interesting bit of double-speak utilized by B.M. (highlighted in the bold italicized section): CHARACTER Football? Scouting a superior choice In his recent open letter, former

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It is rather self-evident why Man-first Mac chose this route rather than one that would allow honest, direct response like in a news conference or a private meeting with Hoffman or the IIC (background.) Gotta love the pious rhetoric (are the all-caps terms catch phrases of his paternalistic movement?) Mr. PromiseKeeper himself spews in his missive, even invoking blind tarring of critics. I

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