In truth there is no such thing in man’s nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorn New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes,…
The email said: 40 million people in the world are infected with HIV and that number is rising daily. The majority of these people do not have access to life-saving treatment. Here is something simple you can do to help fight a problem that affects us all… Bristol-Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS every time someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it. Please forward this to your friends to spread the…
Here’s an interesting list from AlterNet – their ten most popular stories of the year. ALterNet is a great resource, although a couple of the stories surprised me. They also have the top ten most discussed (which leans hard on 9/11), the top ten Iraq myths, the top ten outrageous right-wing comments of 2006, the top ten most popular book reviews, the top ten sex and relationship stories, and my personal favorite – a meta-list of the top ten top-ten…
I’ve set up an account at Associated Content (the People’s Media Company). I like the idea of grassroots content production (perhaps even with some payment!). There is already a well-established database of interesting and fresh information – I found the site by stumbling upon an interview with a JW. I think I’d probably write on religious topics, politics, academe, viruses, language – the usual. Perhaps it might improve my internal focus. I haven’t submitted any articles yet, but stay tuned…
Roy Walter N. Jr Nov 5, 1935 – Dec 28, 2003 Miss you, Daddy. Mourning is not forgetting. It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. – Margery Allingham
How is it that the US Energy Policy is a secret? How is it that global energy corporations, participants like Enron, and an overseeing Cheney, can produce our policy in secret, and keep it secret from the population? How could it be that in a democracy (even a weighted representative two-party democracy such as we have) the government can prohibit the citizens of the country from knowing what its own energy policy is? How is it that more ordinary Americans…