"Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam . I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double...
Youthful Recollections: The Best of Seasons By Russ Pearson Well, it’s that time of year! The season I look forward to more than any other and finally it’s come around again. No, I am not talking about autumn…although that probably is my favorite of the four celestial seasons…I’m talking...
Don't you see that the whole aim of “Newspeak” is to narrow the range of thought?... Has it ever occurred to you Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... The whole climate of...
If you go through life free of bad habits, you won't live forever, but it will feel like it By D.A. Blyler It all starts one quiet afternoon at the brew-pub. I'm sitting with my associate Bobby, enjoying a pint of the house ale, when Stephen Covey (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)...
Happenstance: “A circumstance regarded as due to chance” Another in a series of Youthful Recollections For The Record of Wilkes By Russ Pearson A local friend, neighbor and fellow aviator recently recommended a newly released film to me. As luck would have it, that movie was playing at a theater...
UPDATED LINKS AND BANDS 22nd Nov 09 (MORE TO COME) Asterix denotes new update This is a new work in progress - and will take a while to compile crocodile. New Starting to add solo artists at the bottom of this. Below is an A to Z of Coventry from the 60's to the early 80's and even to the present...
'The best man is marred by faults,the worst isnot without worth.' The Havamal 800AD 'The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.' From the leaked Global Warming emails.1255352257 12/2009 'A zoo has an African lion, the White House has a...
Here is Alan Moore's piece on the Iraq war, complete, uncut, and referenced in the previous post... Here's a joke: What do you call an eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no arms, surviving family members, or unblackened skin below his waist? I don't know. I was shouting at the TV and I didn' t catch his...
