May 2010
Government review to examine threat of world... →
Study commissioned following sharp rises in commodity prices on world markets and food riots in some countries
Ministers have ordered a review of looming global shortages of resources, from…
"The Hobbit" loses director Guillermo... →
Guillermo Del Toro, director of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, has stepped down as director of the two Hobbit movies currently in pre-production with Peter Jackson’s Weta Studios….
A Few Notes →
I think the best take I’ve seen on the boarding of the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ off Gaza comes today from Bradley Burston in Haaretz. Bernard-Henri Levy, speaking this morning at a conference in Tel…
How Big Oil Conned Obama →
The president asked the oil companies for their advice instead of ordering them to stop the spill. Christopher Brownfield on what Obama could learn from Bush and Putin about forceful decisions.
So a…
Is Israel Drifting Toward Civil War? →
If it weren’t so despicable, it would be laughable: To the outside world, the government of Benyamin Netanyahu is doing a perfect imitation of North Korea in its murderous assault last night on…
China sets new rules banning confessions by... →
Following the reappearance of a supposedly murdered man in China a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese courts have announced new rules that will discount evidence gathered through torture and…
Adderall Receives Honorary Degree From Harvard →
CAMBRIDGE, MA—”Harvard is proud to honor the tremendous merits of Adderall, without which many of you would not be sitting here today,” Faust said in her opening address to the nearly 1,900…
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We've Got The NPT Back On Track. There Was So Much...
U.S. officials said the conference’s final “action plan” at least represented a commitment by 189 nations to stand by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The last review conference, in 2005, collapsed in failure, with many countries blaming the Bush administration. “We’ve got the NPT back on track. There was so much criticism about 2005 … and a lot of...
Unions Begin to Organize California Marijuana... →
photo: wallyg via Flickr
Employees in California’s huge marijuana industry are starting to join unions. One hundred employees in Oakland pot shops – including Oaksterdam University and Blue…
George W. Bush, War President →
In a February 7, 2004 interview with NBC’s Tim Russert, George W. Bush said: …
Need some good climate news? →
There are thousands of high school students across the US working toward creating a cleaner, brighter future. They are not waiting to grow up to make a difference, or just hoping our current…
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The Jam - That's Entertainment
via youtube.com “It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.” - G. K. Chesterton (born 29 May 1874) Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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The Band - The Weight
via youtube.com “The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a...
Deep in the Dopamine Sea →
A new study by researchers at the Karolinska Insitutet in Sweden has revealed a strong similarity between dopamine production in healthy, “highly creative” brains with that of schizophrenics….
Existentialist Firefighter Delays 3 Deaths →
SCHAUMBURG, IL—In an ultimately futile act some have described as courageous and others have called a mere postponing of the inevitable, existentialist firefighter James Farber delayed three deaths…
Hillary Clinton is now the most popular politician... →
Here is a weekend factoid for you: among all living politicians in the United States who have ever held elected office, Hillary Clinton the most popular.
That’s right. Ever since she became…
Oscar Levant →
“I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”
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The House just ended the legislative ban on openly gay service-members. Ron Paul was among the five Republicans.
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Yes - Roundabout
via youtube.com “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” - Carl Jung Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment » ...
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Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
via youtube.com “He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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John Lennon - Instant Karma
via youtube.com “Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another’s being mingle — Why not I with thine?’” - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love’s Philosophy Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Vangelis - Intergalactic Radio Station
via youtube.com “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.” - Rachel Carson Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination...
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Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (Rare)
via youtube.com “It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.” - Rachel Carson Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
"Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness →
It’s hard to tell what “Sex and the City 2: Attack of the Clones” is supposed to be advertising: Is it homosexuality or Islam? Bergdorf Goodman or Abu Dhabi? Not that any of those products come off…
The Oil Spill Is Another Katrina →
By Ali Frick
I was watching MSNBC this morning and one of the guests said that the BP oil spill was a demonstration of the failure of government to handle these sorts of disasters. But it strikes…
White House Jester Beheaded For Making Fun Of... →
WASHINGTON—”For crimes of great arrogance and cheek, His Idiocy the White House Jester has been sentenced to a swift demise,” said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. “Let it be heard over…
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia →
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All cameras aimed at a grinning Johnny Knoxville—flanked by a bluegrass band—outside the theater where “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” made its Los Angeles debut. The…
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Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun - 1977 LIVE
via youtube.com “Love transforms your life into a festival of lights. And unless your life becomes a feast and a festival, remember: you have not done the thing you have come for on this earth.” - Osho Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
via youtube.com “Love transforms your life into a festival of lights. And unless your life becomes a feast and a festival, remember: you have not done the thing you have come for on this earth.” - Osho Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
via youtube.com Whenever you entrust your heart to a thought, something will be taken from you inwardly. Whatever you think and acquire, the thief will enter from that side where you feel safe. So busy yourself with that which is better, so that something less may be taken from you. ~Maulana Rumi Translated by William Chittick Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry...
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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
via youtube.com “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” - William Shakespeare Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
via youtube.com “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Soren Kierkegaard Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock
via youtube.com “Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.” - William Whewell (born 24 May 1794) Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Crosby Stills & Nash - Teach Your Children
via youtube.com “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” - Bob Dylan (born 24 May 1941) Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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David Bowie - Be My Wife
via youtube.com “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” - Carl Jung Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory
via youtube.com “They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803) Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
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Joy Division - Disorder
via youtube.com “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803) Posted via web from Joshua...
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Blondie - Call Me
via youtube.com “Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o’er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and...
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Fleet Foxes - Sun It Rises - Last.fm Presents
via youtube.com “You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. “What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?” men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, “As others do, so...
WSJ answers Palin: GOP received ‘far more’... →
Weeks after BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Politico reported that during the last 20 years, the company and its employees gave more money to President Obama than any other…
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning... →
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’…
Climate Change and Accurate Timekeeping →
Photo from the Catlin Arctic Survey Of Shrinking Polar Cap
One of the critical elements of the Clock of the Long Now to keep good time over ten millennia is the part of the clock that is…
The Case for Negotiations →
The coalition’s strategy in Afghanistan is at an impasse. The renewed efforts undertaken since the summer of 2009 have failed to temper the guerrilla war. A few tactical successes are possible, but…
How Change Doesn’t Happen →
Even adorable protesters don’t usually win hearts and minds. cc photo from Flickr user satanslaundromat.
By Dara Lind
Texas public schools spread American history over two years of…
'Lost' Possibly Still Airing In Parallel... →
NEW YORK—Desperate fans of the recently concluded television series Lost are speculating that the program is continuing on in a parallel dimension somewhere, and that alternate versions of…
Mark Twain's autobiography to be finally... →
Goodblood sez, “Just before he died, Mark Twain stipulated that his autobiography should only be published 100 years after he died, and that’s now. Exciting!”
ZOMG. Want to read right now!
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On Blaming Bush →
Yes, it’s still appropriate.
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Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains - A Take Away...
via youtube.com “Be an artist superior to tricks of art. Show frankly, as a saint would do, all your experience, your methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same. And out of this superior frankness and charity, you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Posted via web...
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INXS - Need You Tonight - Live At Wembley Stadium
via youtube.com “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley Posted via web from Joshua Oakley - Dreams Poetry Visions Imagination Beauty | Comment »
Who Knew? Kevin Costner's Been Working on Oil... →
So apparently Kevin Costner (yes, that Kevin Costner) has spent millions of dollars over the last eight years developing a centrifuge-like device called Ocean Therapy that removes oil from…
