After reading the comments left on the post Make Love Not War, below, I was emboldened to add a Digg button, and I urge you to click on submit. Let’s get this out in front. You amazing people. Peace out.

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” … yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes”

How like me. A day late and more than a dollar short. (Attribution lost, to be found, this is such a terrific painting of Joyce.)

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Why Army Suicides Continued to Rise in May, and What We Can Do — Jon Soltz, Huff Po

Just off the top of my head here, stop training people in the ability kill other people?

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… just as we take a train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. We cannot get to a star while we are alive any more than we can take the train when we are dead. So to me it seems possible that cholera, tuberculosis and cancer are the celestial means of locomotion. —Van Gogh

Roger Ebert’s Journal

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“The most dangerous revolutions are not those which tear everything down, and cause the streets to run with blood, but those which leave everything standing, while cunningly emptying it of any significance.” — Kierkegaard

More proof that Capitalism has done it’s job … and writing for the web is but blogging the mop up.

As of course are a great many other activities, but then, why depress oneself. Read the rest of this entry »

FACTBOX: Physicist Stephen Hawking

As a result of this research, Hawking proposed a model of the universe based on two concepts of time: “real time,” or time as human beings experience it, and “imaginary time,” the time on which the world may really run.

“The universe is self-contained, and without boundary, in imaginary time. However, in real time, the universe will appear to begin at the Big Bang,” Hawking said, referring to the explosion thought to be at the origin of the universe.

What a lovely fucking paradox! Real time for the ticking off of our hours and days … but it may well be that Real Time is Imaginary Time. Read the rest of this entry »

AP – Wichita, Kan. The man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider to death as he handed out programs at a Sunday church service … said he appreciates the prayers said for him and his family in the wake of his arrest. “I haven’t been convicted of anything, and I am being treated as a criminal …”

“I want people to stop and think: It is not anti-government; it is anti-corrupt government … He said he was concerned about how the media attention was affecting his family … particularly his elderly mother.

“I appreciate your prayers,” said Roeder

How nice. How awful damn …

Wait, didn’t somebody die? At your hand? Killed?

Is there no end to pathological narcissism?

Whatever. Jesus loves you. Maybe.

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Could the Secret Service guys possibly look any more Secret Service.

Yeah, up close there’s the little coil of wire coming out of their ears.

I jest. Keep him safe. As the song says,

“Bring him home. He is young. Bring him home.”

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