so New Year, hey?
Y2K: A decade since the world imploded. Proved those naysayers wrong, eh?
0:25 Carlton done stole his dance
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw
so what fresh hell is this then?
Minor overstatement aside, I've returned to the land of the tree-free, air-borne debris yet savvy tele(y?) to complete assignments of various assortments. In any event, what better time than now to distract oneself from the inevitable?
Here's some holiday cheer and love-infused potpourri for your pleasing! Best 2010
US of A LEFT VS RIGHT PICTOGRAPH (thank-you Information is Beautiful)
Neat-o Articles:
10 Most Culturally Poisonous Films of the Decade (thanks Pajiba)
Moral Call of the Wild (thanks Sci Am / Quinlatron)
SEX Sells: But Whose? (thanks Sociological Images)
Members of Parliament: How'd They Vote?
-who all played hooky?
-who said Nelson Mandela is a terrorist?
-who sent out a memo claiming Yasser Arafat had AIDS after he passed away instead of offering condolences?
-who said, "You can't scalp me because I don't have much hair on top of my head?"
-who thinks we should lower the age to 10 (as in TEN) to be tried as an adult?
(it may or may not be the case that the above quotes represent 1 Political Party that begins with the letter 'C' and rhymes with: 'prejudice preservative'.
The aforementioned political beings entrust a tubby turtle-necked Machiavellian fuddy-duddy to helm their partisan...ship of affluence, social conservatism and impractical Libertarian dogma. So far navigating the sea of dirty oil has been smooth sailing for the Conning-preservatives through the propaganda spewed forth by CanWest and similar media conglomerates, silencing opposition (academics, opposing parties: Harper once said, "The NDP is proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men", free-speech media) and acting plain ignorant re: Climate Change, colonialism, state of minority groups...
Resolution To Do More Yoga?
who says disco isn't transcendental?
pair this vid:
with soundtrack:
(care of Crayons)
Don't Know Much?
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- Sir William Osler
Go to where the silence is and say something.
-Amy Goodman
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
- Flannery O'Connor
kel/ani: don't let go of your bags and i be seeing yous on the other side!
