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READ MORE »Monthly archives for April, 2007
The play’s the thing.
Mike Daisey, a monologueist (think of one-person shows like Julia Sweeney’s “Letting Go of God” or the multi-character monologue show “The Vagina Monologues”), recently had a large group of people get up and walk out of his show–which is disrespectful enough although somewhat understandable (sort of,) but one of the men in that group saw [...]
READ MORE »“Living” in artificial limbo.
Here we go again. A story of a mother with a terminally ill infant with a disease with no cure on life-support, fighting to keep him alive while the hospital wants to remove the support. Fight over baby’s life support divides ethicists This is darkly funny: the poor infant is living on respirator tube and [...]
READ MORE »When the failed war on drugs meets the failing war on terror.
A recent article in a British Columbia ‘zine: LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US A story about a 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist, traveling to visit friends and family in the US as he’d done many many times, got stopped at the CA/US border for a more thorough screening. Turns out that because [...]
READ MORE »The encroaching police state.
Well, I’m going to start trying to deal with socio-political topics: capitalism, Marxism, libertarianism, socialism. The best course, I think, is to take it in small steps and take little bites. Maybe. (No, I know sometime this week I’m going to write a zillion word diatribe with all my angst and issues over the topic.) [...]
READ MORE »Final note on gun control.
Well, unless something else comes up, I’m going to wrap up my one-sided discourse on gun control and the need for the right for self-defense. I’ve already written about all I could think of here: Massacre in a Gun-Free Zone Armed Resistance The facts about gun-control However, I actually recommend, if you’re pressed for time [...]
READ MORE »The mental health system has failed all of us
Jennifer’s “Idle Rambling Thoughts of an Abstract Thinker” has a post regarding how even though so many people did the right thing regarding VT Killer Cho, the broken system can be blamed for Cho having been out and among us instead of institutionalized: How the Mental Health System Fails Us. It’s a good article and [...]
READ MORE »Cho wins, pt. 2
As I’ve mentioned, I listen mainly to “liberal” radio, Air America (because I agree with what they say 80% of the time and they have been logical, reasonable, and intelligent whereas “conservative” radio has been predominately racist, hate-filled, ignorant, and without reason.) Except in the area of gun control the last few days, in which [...]
READ MORE »Cho wins
I just opened up cnn.com and looking back at me was no less than three, different images of Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) looking back at me in various self-photographed poses with his guns and the NBC News logo in the corners, and sixteen links to articles about him, his past, the guns he [...]
READ MORE »The facts about gun-control
Let’s put the 2nd Amendment aside. It’s irrelevant. If it needs to be changed or removed, we can do that. if we couldn’t change the Constitution, we’d still have slavery and women couldn’t vote. Let’s just talk about facts and figures and reality, politics and Founding Fathers aside. To do this, we have to put [...]
READ MORE »Armed Resistance
I’m just astonished the reversal of reason I’m hearing on “liberal” radio. Most of the time I listen to liberal radio like Air America because they make rational sense. And the “conservative” radio people are emotional pit-bulls spewing hate mongering and fear and irrational illogic. But, the last couple of days, I’ve been entirely ashamed [...]
READ MORE »Massacre in a Gun-Free Zone
(An update at bottom.) Yesterday 32 students and teachers were killed, another 30 injured, by a Virginia Tech student (who killed himself) using two illegally obtained handguns. I’m not going to bother summarizing events as anyone capable of turning on a computer is being inundated via Internet, TV, radio, with all the facts and opinions, [...]
READ MORE »Mediocrity?! Privilege and Musical Tastes
Arglblargle! This “Classically Liberal” site really making my conflicting libertarian and socialist views go at it like wildcats in a sack. Really meeaan wildcats. A really mean sack. He post an article: Can mediocrity appreciate greatness? which is a reaction to the Washington Post article: Pearls Before Breakfast In short, one of the greatest living [...]
READ MORE »Everyone’s Finally Equal
The more I read this “Classically Liberal” blog the more conflicted I become. Remember how some time ago I said I would need to have to work out my libertarian/socialist issues here on my blog soon? It’s going to have to be very soon. Anyway, the blog posted in its entirety in honor of Kurt [...]
READ MORE »Can The Republicans Be Saved From Big Brother shrub And The Fundies?
I found a fascinating blog today called “Classically Liberal“. (I’m assuming the “classically” adverb means “moderate” as the blog has a post critical of socialized medicine and some comments in other posts that decry Left extremism.) Anyway, in addition to a great post on my hero, Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, I found these two posts particularly [...]
READ MORE »Near-Deathiness
Man the brain is so cool and amazing! The latest Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe deals with the concept of near-death experiences. The primary host of the show is a practicing neurologist and so has a certain amount of practical information regarding on what creates the near-death experiences. (Not to mention, near-death is near-death, not [...]
READ MORE »Was The Death Star Explosion an Inside Job?!
This is priceless! The latest Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe has a link to a fantastic satire on the whole 9/11 conspiracy theorists: Uncomfortable Questions: Was the Death Star Attack an Inside Job? It takes the position of an Imperial citizen in the Star Wars world who, having not seen the Star War movies, questions [...]
READ MORE »*sigh*
Man, that was a negative last post. Full of venom and ire. It actually makes me feel a little sad and down when I think about how much vitriol is involved with this whole subject. Religion makes me sad, as well. I spew negativity because it’s what I do with the sadness and frustration. I [...]
READ MORE »Piecemeal Religion is the Same as Your Own Religion–Just Give it Up
“Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in!” (Paraphrased from “The Godfather.”) I said recently I’m sick of being an apostate, and I am. I hate it. But so often something religious sets me off and I can’t help but rail against the ridiculousness. Why? Why am I so often filled [...]
READ MORE »So It Goes
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut has died. (A fascinating appearance of Vonnegut on “The Daily Show”: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2005/09/kurt_vonnegut_o_1.html) I encountered him first, probably like most people my age, by seeing the movie “Slaughterhouse-Five” on cable when I was about 12. Reading in the TV Guide something about it being a sci-fi time travel movie of course drew me [...]
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