If you do nothing else today, make sure you view this – The Story of A Sign – La Historia De Un Letrero – it is well worth it. http://en.zappinternet.com/video/nilSqaMboM/HISTORIA-DE-UN-LETRERO (and it happens to be shot in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a town my Mom is from)
I got this on the internet and couldn’t resist sharing: Michelangelo’s David is returning to Italy . . . After a two year visit to the United States, Michelangelo’s David is returning to Italy . . . His Proud Sponsors were:
From germination of sperm & ovary, to a living being with thought & conscience… From one cell to diverse organs. From living organs to self. When & how does baby acquire thought? And self-awareness? And soul?
It’s such an interesting and powerful feeling that I can be so excited and anxious to meet my baby, and can love someone so much, before having met him. My wife and I are 6 months pregnant and the incubation process is so wondrous physically but also in terms of the emotional bonds it creates.
For Jewish leaders in the Chicago community that know him best, it is striking that so many Jews are suspicious of Barack Obama as a hidden anti-semite or as "bad for the Jews." If anything, Obama was chastised by some for his particularly close relation to Jewish Americans in Chicago. But the political aspersions have [...]
Consider our beloved young people… They walk in rows of three, each on a cellphone, not even talking to the people next to her. I keep thinking of my happiest moments of youth, walking along… coming home from [s]chool. I could smell the leaves burning in the late fall, think the long thoughts that young [...]
The hypocrisy of partisan pundits – Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Pfotenhauer, appropriately-named DICK Morris and even Sarah Palin – was hilariously exposed by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart in what is sure to become a classic:
Nothing like Jon Stewart’s reporting to shatter one’s fantasies of political la-la-land. These segments highlight my foolishness in writing the earlier posts, and expose much of the hypocrisy of exclusionary politicians and regressive policies at this last week’s RNC convention – plus they are damn funny! On the Stark Differences between McCain and Bush: (make [...]
Here is a great blog piece on the psychology of magic – how Magicians manipulate the mind in ways that psychologists can borrow/learn from. Psychology of Magic: 3 Critical Techniques In 2007 a group of magicians including James Randi, Teller, one half of Penn & Teller and others, gathered in Las Vegas to talk about [...]
Start watching at minute 1:30 for a good interpretation of Rudy’s speech at the RNC. Also an analysis of Sarah Palin’s "rejection" of the bridge to nowhere, at minute 4:00.