What’s wrong with the world, mama People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas I think the whole world’s addicted to the drama Only attracted to things that’ll bring you trauma Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism But we still got terrorists here livin’ In the USA, the big CIA The Bloods and The …
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Sing with your body.
You can see the sound and hear the emotion. Enjoy this video: “Where the hell is Matt?”
There is no atonement for killing.
So the gander killed the hen and I killed the gander. He had been marked for some days. He had a mean look and was the loudest to hiss. I couldn’t tell him from the other geese easily. So finally I marked the one I thought most aggressive. And over the next 24 hours it …
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Where are you going?
It is important to know where we come from, because if you don’t know where you come from then you don’t know where you are and if you don’t know where you are then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you are going, you’re probably going wrong. Terry Pratchett, …
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Welcome to America – “hands up!”.
It happened a few hours ago at the airport. We were queueing with non-US passport holders to go through immigration. I tried not to think about what was happening. The people doing it to me looked a bit apologetic. But not really enough. They did not realise that many people had died over the centuries …
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What Is the Meaning Of Life? 1 or 0?
So, I’m in the middle of resurrecting my computer after it suffered a fatal bout of Windowsitis, and while letting off steam to my dad have some unexpected insights based on an IT metaphor. I was testing three operating systems (OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Vista) and a virtualisation tool. It was glitching at the multiboot setup – …
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Has economics reached its sell-by date?
A note by Richard and Stella, voicing frustrations many of us feel in the imploding Irish economy. How far will things have to disintegrate before we cop on that we cannot continue to do things in the same way? At the moment, issues of the economy are determining political decisions, and consequently, are affecting decisions …
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The Economist on Drugs
Is this what we really want?
Is this what we really want? That’s the thought that keeps popping in to my head as the wind tears at the roof and the water digs a gully as it runs down the drive. I have found media reported events over the past months (year?) to be particularly concerning. There seems to be no …
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Virtual shopping extinguishes community.
I like shopping on-line – it’s quick, easy and cost effective. And I’ve tried the self-service checkout, when the teller queue is long or slow. But the push by big grocers to move exclusively to self-service is another nail in the coffin of communities. Most of us prefer to buy food from a person, we …
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