it's a Hungarian sauage commercial!

via BoingBoing of course!

Deepak Chopra: we need more voices like his

Read this: (from a recent interview)

"We have a very self-righteous attitude towards the rest of the world. We have no understanding of how these violent ideologies are born. We want to just go to war and kill the terrorists. Well, the bad news is you can kill as many terrorists as you want, but you cannot kill terrorism. In order to kill terrorism it's gonna have to be a 50-year Marshall Plan to not build war torn cities, but to build ideas. To rebuild violence torn minds. To educate them, to help them, to cooperate with them, to create economic partnerships so that the rage disappears, and to understand them. There are very simple rules for having a dialogue. You respect your enemy. You talk to them with the attitude, 'Yes. We understand that you also have injustice and we also feel injustice. Can we have a room here for forgiveness on both sides? Can we refrain from belligerence?' The more belligerent we get, the more belligerent the radicals get."

That some might criticize such eloquent and unimpeachably well-reasoned speech is completely absurd to me, and betrays a reactionary extremism that will always thwart critical thought and dialog.

At a time when Bush II still is trying to link 9/11 to the war in Iraq, we need more voices like this. Thank god Obama has been elected.

my precious

A week ago I was playing my mp3 player through our stereo when some guests were over. Otherwise, it is usually in my backpack when I am not listening to it. Then, on Tuesday morning I noticed it was still plugged into the stereo, so I unplugged it, and I thought I put it in my backpack. Later, I couldn't find it, so I wasn't sure if I actually put it in my backpack. I couldn't find it anywhere. I thought it might have been lost. That would suck, because this mp3 player is top notch and will probably last me a long time. And we can't really afford a new one right now. Anyway, yesterday I had a crazy thought, that maybe it was in my backpack in the main compartment, NOT where I normally keep it. Sure enough, there it was, behind all the folders and everything. I am so glad to have found it!

You should listen to 'Mel & Floyd'

Go here and scroll down to where it says 'Mel & Floyd' and click either 'Play' or 'Download'.

They talk about politics and stuff.

And they are pretty funny.

(Also they seem to really, really like James Brown.)

It's about fucking time!

Thank god! I will have to change my subtitle but am too lazy to do so right now.

Finally we will have a rational and competent person in the white house again. A man of thought BEFORE action. A critical thinker. A reader.

That he is a Democrat is a bonus. That he is African-American is historic.

I was actually quite pleased with McCain's concession speech. Those supporters of his who booed quite loudly when he first mentioned Obama by name, and a second time when he first mentioned Biden by name, are either morons or assholes, or both. I have to think that McCain is ashamed of a significant portion of his supporters.

The world is breathing a collective sigh of relief and is celebrating!

No doubt the insane racists and far-right ideologues and religious nuts that have been making the rounds on YouTube at McCain rallies, saying outrageous, shameful and hateful things about Obama will be very disappointed and probably will not recognize him as their president. I am not worried. Now they know how so many of us feel when Bush stole the election in 2000. (And again in 2004?) We did not consider him our president either and the country survived.

It's past my bedtime. I don't know if I can fall asleep quickly but I've got to teach early in the morning so I don't have much choice. It's time to get to bed. I'll listen to the Alan Colmes show on the radio as I fall asleep.

It is a good day.

Escaped Rhino Drill!

(At a Japaneese Zoo. Brought to me via BoingBoing.)

This is very funny.

wtf (a familly game called ballbusters)

Apparently this is from a site called Megomuseum, I found it on Boing Boing Gadgets blog...

Oh no you di-n't!

I think this commercial and song are hilarious.