Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Seventh Telling: The Qabalah of Moshe Katan – A Novel by Mitchell Chefitz.
“And that was the state of the world when our father Abraham came on the scene. Creation had been pushed away from God, through Adam, through Eve, through the generation of Noah, through the generation of the Tower of Babel.
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: Rationalization provides us with a way of justifying our inappropriate actions. p. 29
I’m doing my best to stay on top of events in Myanmar/Burma and it’s not surprising that the best sources are not inside the United States. I’m reading The Independent, The Guardian and The BBC along with Irrawaddy and the Asia Times. Once a day I’ll post a digest of headlines from stories I just couldn’t get to.
Today’s batch includes:
Burma stages big pro-junta march
Player denies Burma regime links
Crackdown in Burma
US urges UN envoy to head for Burma
Burma’s military maintains hard line
Burma’s Monks: ‘Already a Success’
Brown backs UN statement on Burma
UN envoy to Myanmar heads back to Asia
Myanmar Refugees Strain Aid Groups
Myanmar junta eases Yangon curfew
Myanmar crackdown sends tourism into tailspin
Activists seized in Myanmar protest
Myanmar support group formed
Myanmar junta arrests more activists
S’pore leaders send condolence letters to Myanmar
‘UN’s Myanmar statement not tough enough’
And from the blogosphere:
Amnesty: Campaigners Arrested In Burma
Reading Interesting Old News
Burma’s Monks: ‘Already a Success’
After the Riots, Burma Returns to an Unspoken Terror
Amid Arrests, UN Seeks Myanmar Role
Arms easy to buy for Myanmar junta
Myanmar Junta Arrests Top Student Dissident
Poor Myanmar
Myanmar arrests three more activists
Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most brilliant comics ever written. From Calvin’s iconic snowcreatures to Hobb’s delight in the warm and comfortable, Bill Watterson’s genius helped keep me sane. Until he stopped. I’ve never wandered Chagrin Falls in hopes of a glimpse, but others have.
And now Watterson has stepped out of the shadows.
From yesteday’s Wall Street Journal (of all places):
The comic strip “Peanuts” was more than a decade old when I started reading it as a kid in the mid-1960s. At that time, “Peanuts” was becoming a force of pop culture, with best-selling books and a newly burgeoning merchandising empire of plastic dolls, sweatshirts, calendars and television specials. The overwhelming commercial success of the strip often overshadows its artistic triumph, but throughout its 50-year run, Charles Schulz wrote and drew every panel himself, making his comic strip an extremely personal record of his thoughts. It was a model of artistic depth and integrity that left a deep impression on me. While growing up, I collected the annual “Peanuts” books and used them as a personal cartooning course, copying the drawings with the idea of someday becoming the next Charles Schulz.
There’s more, of course. Could this somehow be a sign that Spaceman Spiff is thinking of blasting off again?
As a youth I ran without getting winded,
unloaded boxcars of empty beer cans all day,
steered a snow blower without huffing until forty,
a lawnmower without puffing through my fifties.
The sight of a pretty girl took my breath away,
but that was imagination, not effort.
Over the years, age eroded my once strong body.
Putting on socks became a challenge.
Trips to the basement required planning.
As bending over got hard, and straightening up iffy,
I put long-handled grabbers all over the house.
Most mornings I rest after I climb out of bed.
Later, tongue out and panting, like a dog that just fetched,
I trudge up the driveway with a red face and the mail.
If there”s a copy of AARP Magazine, I grasp it between
thumb and forefinger, and drop it in the recycling bin.
Already Proficient by Ken Duncan
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Google Earth”s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator.
Kevin: Well, you can now begin counting me as one of the roughly 160,000 troops the U.S. has in Iraq. I landed here at Balad Air Base very late last night on an Air Force C-17. We first took off from Kuwait on a smaller aircraft, the C-130, but had to turn around over southern Iraq because of engine trouble. I didn”t even notice anything was wrong until the…
You all know that I don’t generally watch TV — watching television for me is like smoking crack, not a good idea — but I do watch enough DVDs and YouTube to stay reasonably current on popular culture so that I’m not a total dweeb to my students. Which is a long way of saying I do like the humor of Stephen Colbert.
Even when it’s on the op-dd pages of the New York Times:
Surprised to see my byline here, aren”t you? I would be too, if I read The New York Times. But I don”t. So I”ll just have to take your word that this was published. Frankly, I prefer emoticons to the written word, and if you disagree :(
I”d like to thank Maureen Dowd for permitting/begging me to write her column today. As I type this, she”s watching from an overstuffed divan, petting her prize Abyssinian and sipping a Dirty Cosmotinijito. Which reminds me: Before I get started, I have to take care of one other bit of business:
Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn”t have to think about. It”s all George Bush”s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.
There. Now I”ve written Frank Rich”s column too.
So why I am writing Miss Dowd”s column today? Simple. Because I believe the 2008 election, unlike all previous elections, is important. And a lot of Americans feel confused about the current crop of presidential candidates.
Keep reading while I go flush coffee out of my nose.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Seventh Telling: The Qabalah of Moshe Katan – A Novel by Mitchell Chefitz.
“And then the generation of the Tower of Babel. What were they trying to do? It wasn”t that they were building a tower to climb back to heaven. Read it closely. They were creating a name for themselves. A shem to get back to shemayim. Shem means name. Shemayim, which means heaven, may be derived from the word shem. It”s the place of the Divine Name. So what does God do? God confuses their language and puts them further into exile, further away.
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: Rationalization is living incongruently with unifying principles, and it is the worst of all time wasters. p. 28
I’m doing my best to stay on top of events in Myanmar/Burma and it’s not surprising that the best sources are not inside the United States. I’m reading The Independent, The Guardian and The BBC along with Irrawaddy and the Asia Times. Once a day I’ll post a digest of headlines from stories I just couldn’t get to.
Today’s batch includes:
PRC voices support for talks to resolve conflict in Myanmar
Thai PM doubts UN can bring change to Myanmar
Myanmar’s Depression Poses Dilemmas for Globalization
Myanmar ‘regrets’ UN rebuke over crackdown
US calls for UN special envoy to quickly visit Myanmar
Arms Easy to Buy for Myanmar Junta
Nigeria: Myanmar – Monks Laud U,.S. First Lady’s Intervention
Bulgari joins boycott of Myanmar’s precious stones
UN envoy’s return to Myanmar may still be in Nov
And from the blogosphere:
An Enduring Symbol of Peace During Recent Unrest in Myanmar
Myanmar: Activist’s Death
Mmedwatch
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is The American Scholar.
CAPT Lee Kelley: I will always remember that day in 2004 when I sat on the business side of a Lieutenant Colonel’s desk as he “invited” me to go to Iraq with his battalion. Now, as a company commander in the Utah National Guard, one of my duties has been to send others to fight the war in Iraq. Nor will I forget the day I sat on the other side of the desk and told…
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Most people, I believe, think that all the Bush shenanigans involving torture, arresting U.S. citizens and holding them with out charge for years and tapping citizens’ phones without a warrant began in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks when the terrified president went running for his undisclosed bunker.
But a court document now suggests that that might not be the case.
From this morning’s Washington Post:
A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company thought might be illegal.
Former chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to court documents unsealed in Denver this week.
So the Bush administration may have been ramping up illegal wire taps as early as February 2001?
Do you feel more secure now that the boogie man terrorists aren’t going to get your SUV?
Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
0854 Jeff Hess” comment
0705 Neo-con blogger masquerading as “leftist”
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from The Seventh Telling: The Qabalah of Moshe Katan – A Novel by Mitchell Chefitz.
“Ten generations pass. The generation of Noah is an evil generation. Why are they evil? What are they doing? They are having sex with angels, that”s what they”re doing. Adam and Eve tried to eat their way back. The generation of Noah was trying to fornicate they”re way back. And God drowned their rebellion. The way you”d throw a bucket of water on some fornicating dogs, God threw a bucket of water on a fornicating generation. He saved Noah and his family and sent them further into exile.”
The image was strong enough to create a stir among the students.
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: A unifying principle is a gold nugget of truth used as a guide for goal planning and living. p 25
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