When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. — Audre Lorde
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist this unexpected TV interviewee on the bad streets of Toronto… !
Yes, yes, it is Robbie Burns night – and here’s one for him Little Flo
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a short excerpt from the excellent wnyc.org radiolabs on the underground memory racket and how it may be affecting you!
You can listen to the complete show in context at the above link.
yes, “you suck at photoshop”
tutorial 1 • tutorial 2 • tutorial 3
talk about cunning stunts
One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog.
And as he came near and saw that they were very intent and heeded him not, he stopped.
Then there arose in the midst of the company a large, grave cat and … Read the rest of this entry »
If any of these men could legitimately be called complex, it is probably Leary. A brilliant scientist, he was often reviled by traditional scientists, whom he called “arrogant motherfuckers who deny their role in the military industrial complex’s manipulation of the American people.” Leary rejected what he called the “grim Newtonian mechanics of objective fact” for the “free flowing quantum physics approach to consciousness” that the changing, not the static, governs consciousness and the outcome of the world. “Understanding this … Read the rest of this entry »
On the European Union Treaty
Tellingly, EU leaders coldly swatted aside a Polish request for laws on “public morality” to be exempted from the charter of fundamental rights. Given the Poles’ record of populist social conservatism, it was feared that an exemption would lead to “gays being tarred and feathered” on the streets of Warsaw, says one diplomat, exaggerating only slightly.
(from The Economist, June 30th (p.61))
I don’t know, there’s something comic about the medieval imagery.
