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Friday, February 12, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016
NASA/JPL releases a set of amazing interstellar travel posters
By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore and Space Travel Ed.
NASA/JPL has just released some pretty amazing and aspirational travel posters. "As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future." Jump here to see the entire set and download any or all of them.
NASA/JPL has just released some pretty amazing and aspirational travel posters. "As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future." Jump here to see the entire set and download any or all of them.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
David Brooks's unexpected pro-Obama editorial
By Mona Goldwater, Democratic Primary and Caucus Ed.
Coming from David Brooks, this is pretty fascinating. Brooks praises President Obama's humanity, integrity, and decision making. Read his fascinating editorial here.
As our friend and reader Francis pointed out, after a brief flirtation with BHO over some pointy-headed philosophy, Brooks pretty much hunkered down and gently/fiercely hectored President Obama for the last seven years. This piece makes me like Brooks even more. I don't read editorials often, but when I do, I have liked his pieces. He's almost always wrong, but wrong in a right way. And he's right about President Obama.
How far back do we have to go to find a previous President with real integrity? '76 and Jimmy Carter? Cal Coolidge? Or maybe all the way back to Grover Cleveland (who is universally considered to be the most honest, integrity-riddled U.S. politician ever). Maybe Bernie Sanders is up there too. I don't know. But working across the aisle/bipartisanship always moves me, and I like that Brooks put this out there for the GOP and pundits to see.
Coming from David Brooks, this is pretty fascinating. Brooks praises President Obama's humanity, integrity, and decision making. Read his fascinating editorial here.
As our friend and reader Francis pointed out, after a brief flirtation with BHO over some pointy-headed philosophy, Brooks pretty much hunkered down and gently/fiercely hectored President Obama for the last seven years. This piece makes me like Brooks even more. I don't read editorials often, but when I do, I have liked his pieces. He's almost always wrong, but wrong in a right way. And he's right about President Obama.
For all the sniping now, it will only be a few short years before he is remembered fondly and, maybe, even beloved. David Brooks new found love of BHO's character may very well be influenced by the treachery, whoppers, hot air, bluster, and sewage he's been forced to consume in the 2015/16 GOP-Tea Party television debates.
"No, Obama has not been temperamentally perfect. Too often he’s been disdainful, aloof, resentful and insular. But there is a tone of ugliness creeping across the world, as democracies retreat, as tribalism mounts, as suspiciousness and authoritarianism take center stage. Obama radiates an ethos of integrity, humanity, good manners and elegance that I’m beginning to miss, and that I suspect we will all miss a bit, regardless of who replaces him."
How far back do we have to go to find a previous President with real integrity? '76 and Jimmy Carter? Cal Coolidge? Or maybe all the way back to Grover Cleveland (who is universally considered to be the most honest, integrity-riddled U.S. politician ever). Maybe Bernie Sanders is up there too. I don't know. But working across the aisle/bipartisanship always moves me, and I like that Brooks put this out there for the GOP and pundits to see.
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Citizen Trump and Senator Sanders's perception issues
By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Sen. Sanders and Citizen Trump win the New Hampshire Primary
Sanders and Trump win the #NewHampshirePrimary tonight. As Dick Tuck once said, "The people have spoken. . .the bastards."
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Monday, February 08, 2016
In God We Trust's first appearance on U.S. currency
I'm all for hedging our bets and including every prophet and deity we can think of, up to and including Yaweh, Mohammed, Jeebo, The White Goddess, Frigg, Hailie Selassie, Gyhldeptis, Bikeh, Hozho , Lono, Waheguru, Mithra, Achiyalatopa, Manannan, mac Lir, The Eight Immortals, Baal, and Moloch.
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Sunday, February 07, 2016
Saturday, February 06, 2016
Marco Rubio's Rick Perry moment.
By Jack Brummet, GOP/Tea Party Ed.
He'll drop in the polls overnight and the contributors will stop answering the phones as of now.
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Friday, February 05, 2016
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Poem: The Quest
By Jack Brummet
Of incredible coherence and constance,
Encompassing all you know,
All you don’t know you know.
There is more
To be seen, tasted, heard, and felt
Than can ever be known or told.
Our myths flourish and spread,
Person to person,
Public domain image, "Soria Moria," painted by by Theodor Kittelsen in 1914.
It’s all one story—
A ragged
Shape-shifting tale
Of incredible coherence and constance,
Encompassing all you know,
All you don’t know you know.
There is more
To be seen, tasted, heard, and felt
Than can ever be known or told.
Our myths flourish and spread,
Person to person,
And mysteries of the seas, skies and stars
Fill our
collective conscience
With mystical scenes,
Quests, and
tales of greatness.
These myths,
tales, and fables
Cannot be invented,
Cannot be invented,
Or ordered,
or denied.
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