March 2010
Review of COLLECTED STORIES Gabriel Garcia Marquez →
COLLECTED STORIES Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial 1984 Pb 311 pgs ISBN# 0-06-091306-1
vruz subscribes to this opinion. his stuff only caters to the limited, colourful view of an avid certain public of the northern hemisphere in the 1960s, who see in his books and tales the reflected image of their expectations about these whereabouts. a smarter author —dumbfounded about such...
“We ask that the leaders of the Republican Party:
1. Unequivocally condemn...”
– CREDO: GOP hate intensifies (via ryking)
Pirate Bay's neo-Nazi sugar daddy →
vruz: certainly some food for thought.
—via ledgergermane:
The trial of the Pirate Bay operators in Sweden has generated huge amounts of media coverage. But one of the most interesting things about Pirate Bay hasn’t got a mention.
In his daily dispatches for WiReD, court correspondent Oscar Schwartz swoons over the boyish charm of “likeable” and “winning” Pirate Bay PR guy Peter...
thought: absolute certainty is to strength what...
by the way: garcía márquez is only middle of the...
don’t get me started.
Restore Public Water Supply for 400,000 Haitians →
—via ledgergermane:
We’re rebuilding Port-au-Prince’s public water system, which was destroyed by January 2010’s devastating quake. Our first aim is to provide clean water to 400,000 Haitians, as we did before the quake.
Chip in if you can. If you ever been without clean water for even a day, you’ll know how important it is. Things are still pretty bad in Haiti.
vruz: please do.
Ten Reasons Pastors are Important →
-via azspot:
1. They lead social movements that change the world.
vruz: like Pastor Warren and his anti-gay laws in Uganda.
2. They speak truths that create guardrails to keep us out of danger and stop us from hurting each other.
vruz: shame on Haitians. earthquakes punish non-believers
3. They introduce us and remind us about God, who redeems us and guides us in love.
vruz: guides us...
wondering: why do I see gratuitous pictures of...
ok I read the paper and some sort of string theory...
yuck.
Stream Danzig and Melissa Auf der Maur - "Father's...
—via twentyfourbit:
Care to check out the “first and only duet of Glenn Danzig’s entire career”? Sure, that comes somewhat out of the blue following Monsters of Folk and Crowded House posts, but Danzig has not only been an influence on many of the artists we stalk around here (Ryan Adams, Will Oldham, etc.), he’s also one of the most important rock singers still kicking.
Melissa Auf der...
Brzezinski: We Can "Live With" a Nuclear Iran →
by Adam Weinstein, Motherjones
[…] We managed to live with a nuclear Soviet Union in the days of Stalinism; we managed to live in a stable relationship with China, even though the leader of China, when China obtained the nuclear capability, publicly said, “Well, what’s nuclear war—300 million dead? is that a big deal?” The point is, we know historically that...
International Uproar over Uganda Anti-Gay Bill,... →
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the forces, Reverend Kapya Kaoma, in the United States that are supporting the anti-gay forces in Africa, in Uganda?
REV. KAPYA KAOMA: Currently, the forces that are supporting the bill in Uganda have all distanced themselves. For instance, we have Scott Lively saying the bill goes too far. Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback in California has also said, no, he...
Dissident Female Catholic Bishop Calls for Pope to... →
DemocracyNow.org
The Vatican has denied a series of media reports alleging that Pope Benedict, before being elected pontiff, may have looked the other way in cases of abuse in his native Germany and in the United States.
Last week, the Vatican strongly defended its decision not to defrock the Wisconsin-based priest Father Lawrence Murphy, who abused some 200 deaf boys in the 1950s and ’60s.
The...
Karl Rove Forced Off Stage In CA By Code Pink... →
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was heckled and ultimately forced off stage at a book signing in Beverly Hills by protesters who called him a “war criminal” and told him that he’d “ruined the country.”
According to a local news report (see video below), Rove, who was promoting his new book “Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative in the...
“…it is generally held that Adolf Hitler is the reason Nazism arose in Germany...”
– Jesus and Hitler Atone for our Sins? (via azspot)
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Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say... →
h/t @brainpicker
The new role that quantum information plays in gravity sets the scene for a dramatic unification of ideas in physics
One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises from the complex interaction of simpler things.
A few month’s ago, Erik Verlinde at the the University of Amsterdam put forward one such idea which...
“It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked....”
– Bill Clinton
“What if the Tea Party ruled? Imagine a land, let’s call it Glennbeckistan, where...”
– Chip Ward (via azspot)
vruz: out of sync with the states —and I might add, which is more scary— with the rest of the world.
Obama's Afghan drop-in →
by Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy
I don’t watch much televised news — there’s just not a lot of content per unit of time and I get bored too quickly — but I did happen to catch a report on President Obama’s whirlwind trip to Afghanistan yesterday. (As a sign of my indifference to the major networks, I couldn’t even tell you which channel I was watching). But I...
Global downturn hits Africa's poverty target →
—via abbyjean:
Africa is the only continent not on track to meet the U.N. millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015 because of the impact of the global economic downturn, a U.N. agency said on Thursday.
vruz: for africa there’s no targets, not even hope right now unless the rest of the world give them a helping hand. and we’re too busy staying cosy and giving our...
“Because of Reaganomics, Social Security was converted from a pay-as-you go...”
– David Cay Johnston (via azspot)
vruz: the ever present ghost of the gipper bastard. futurama got it wrong, it’s not nixon in a fishbowl who keeps coming back to mess things up.
“Austin Cline suggests that when we fall victim to black-and-white thinking, we...”
– The Problem with Black and White Thinking | Donald Miller’s Blog (via danielholter)
vruz: well the thing is that there’s times when people are plainly wrong, and no matter how nuanced your views are or how open you are to new ideas, reality is incontestable. people who refuse to acknowledge...
“So take right now, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It’s...”
– - Noam Chomsky on teabaggers
Full IWW interview. (via pensata:witchwife: greatloyalties: bowfolk)
CBS News: Bachmann Offers Big Numbers, Little... →
ericmortensen sez: It’s not news that Bachmann is full of shit. It absolutely is news that the mainstream media is calling her on it.
vruz: about time… the medias are starting to realise that the fringe right is not a big portion of the market. it was bound to happen that they at least had to start making business sense sometime.
Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian... →
(via ericmortensen)
False Alarm Journalism | Enduring America →
—via garysick h/t azspot
Scott Lucas of the Enduring America website (click above) comments on the latest broadside on the Iranian nuclear program by David Sanger and Wm Broad on the front page of the New York Times.
I was struck by two things in this newly breathless and alarmist front-page NYT report.
o First, it says its information is based on the word of officials who...
See the madness up close: Hutaree's YouTube site. →
(via ryking)
Toby tells a story told to him by a friend of his father’s who had been in a Nazi concentration camp.
He said he once saw a guy at the camp kneeling and praying. He said ‘what are you doing?’ The guy said he was thanking God. ‘What could you possibly be thanking God for?’ ‘I’m thanking God for not making me like them.’
from The West Wing...
“If cultural reality can not be made to conform to copyright law, then copyright...”
– A Copyright Exception for Monetizing File-Sharing. A proposal for balancing user freedom and author remuneration in the Brazilian copyright law reform « vgrass.de (via gcn)
“John McCain is perhaps a perfect metaphor for the Republican Party at this point...”
– The McCain Metaphor (via azspot)
thought: if you can't, then don't.
Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data... →
(via laurawhitehead)
Vatican says pope's authority still strong despite... →
—via katharinec:
The Vatican said Saturday that recent attacks on the church over its handling of clerical sex abuse cases have been harmful but that the pope’s authority had not been weakened.
Instead, the Vatican spokesman said, Pope Benedict XVI’s authority and the commitment of the Vatican doctrinal and disciplinary office “have been confirmed in their support and guidance to bishops...
