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"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ~ Isaac Asimov -- Larry Devich http://larry-devich.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------- "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" ~ Isaac Asimov -- Larry Devich http://larry-devich.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------- "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
More stupid govco employees determined to suck the joy out of life, nice she got away from them finally :-) ** Schoolgirl sailor triumphs after battle with authorities ** Sixteen-year-old Laura Dekker becomes the youngest person to sail round the world solo. < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16656270 > ** Disclaimer ** The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and anything written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or opinions. Please note that neither the e-mail address nor name of the sender have been verified. -- Larry Devich http://larry-devich.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------- "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
I am really confused by the outrage over this. Somehow it is OK and even honorable to kill people, spread their body parts all over the ground and rip their limbs off, but not OK to pee on the dead body. Whatever. I guess I'm too much of a pacifist to see that as worse than killing them in the first place. And NO I'm NOT OK with these Marines peeing on dead bodies, but I think war always brings out the worst in humanity. The lie that it brings out the best in man is simply bullshit. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville: There are fears of 'Taliban video' backlash US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says a video which appears to show US Marines urinating on the corpses of Afghans is "utterly deplorable". Those who had taken part in the incident would be held accountable "to the fullest extent", he said. The video, which was posted online, purports to show four US Marines standing over the bodies of several Taliban fighters, at least one of whom is co
My previous post was written on my iPad using the Safari browser. I found it sort of clunky actually, but it worked. This post is going via email. I'm annoyed to discover that, for some reason, I cannot edit my post once I've posted it. I click on edit and get a blank page, the text I want to edit doesn't show up at all. So, typos left in the post have not been fixed because I can't, I can see mistakes and can't fix them... Aaaargh! -- Larry Devich http://larry-devich.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------- "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality." Calvin ("Calvin and Hobbes")
I'm sitting right now with my daughter Lora in the Kaiser Hospital Labor and Delivery in Walnut Creek. JD is here as well, of course. It looks like we will be done in few hours. I'm playing hooky from work this morning, with the blessings of the HOA Board, good people :-) I've been ignoring writing in my blog for a while but this whole baby delivery thing is pretty interesting. For some, like the wife of a co-worker I spoke to yesterday, have very little difficulty. When his son was born his wife was in labor for three hours and was able to go home the same day. Not so quick and easy with Lora though, with the minor complications she's had it really makes you grateful for modern western medicine. I think Lora is especially grateful for the pain killers right now :-) Looking at the difficulty human women have successfully giving birth makes it pretty obvious that the system is a kludged together evolutionary system of stuff that works just good enough, which is