Is up at the Business Opportunities Weblog. Whether your political economic stance is left, right or orthoganal the collected posts should provide plenty of mental stimulation.
There’s money and sex, socialism and capitalism, health care and much, much more.
Via Catallarchy.
No, this is not a physcis thing.
However, you may think you used to live in a tiny universe after you have spent an hour or two in the grip of these musicians. Small venues and up close are best.
I really enjoyed their performance at Bumbershoot last year and wish this relatively short set was amongst the over over 100 shows available for download or streaming at the Internet Archive.
If you like the music burn some copies for yourself and your friends, attend a show next time they are in your area and, yes, buy a CD or two.
And, while you are at it, thumb your nose at the RIAA and its albatross clients.
Huh, what papers? Your archives, of course.
For some of you these may now be all electronic but for those just a bit older most will still be paper based: copies of letters written and received, journals, photos, school papers, etc.
This geologist who recently Looked back at buried treasure reminded of this and the fact that I am tempted daily by the boxes of papers and other archival materials scattered about the house:
The hidden gems of my portfolio were definitely the reflections. Reading these gave me a chuckle. It was nice to see that as I progressed through high school, the writing quality (and the handwriting) improved dramatically.and
Everyone remembers disecting in high school, whether you enjoyed it or not. I definitely enjoyed it. The lab was fairly standard. It had diagrams with organs that the student had to identify, along with basic questions that involved looking inside the rat. In fact, when I sniffed the paper, I can still smell traces of the formaldehyde where the rats were stored at. Ah, the memories!Yes, the memories and the history. Save your archives. If not for you then for that child, grandchild, nephew, or ?, who will be absolutely fascinated by the treasure.
Some will say big deal others will say w can do no wrong:
The White House will project soon that this year’s federal deficit will exceed $420 billion, congressional aides said, a record figure certain to ignite partisan warfare over President Bush’s handling of the economy.Showing an exemplary respect for the law of the land:
The annual summertime analysis is expected out this Friday, said several congressional aides speaking on condition of anonymity Tuesday. That would be well after the frequently ignored legal deadline of July 15.
White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton said the report will be issued when it is ready, and offered no date.I wonder how this would work on the street:
Drug War Jackboot: You are under arrest for growing and possession of marijuana!Sure, there are a lot of laws that should be ignored. However, if you are the Whitehouse and the law applies to you then you really should set a good example.
Drug War Victem and Cancer Patient: But my doctor gave me a prescription.
Drug War Jackboot: Tough!
Drug War Judge: Twenty years! You must obey the law.
Yesterday Arts Journal launched a 10 day blog called Critical Conversation:
THE QUESTION BEFORE USThe conversationalists are a dozen of the “top classical music critics in America” (YMMV) and based on the early posts the discussion might be pretty interesting.
If the history of music is the recorded conversation of ideas, then where do we find ourselves in that conversation at the start of the 21st Century?