Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments The View From the Left Hemisphere of the Universe Hi Abby, I totally agree. Technology and commerce are a pretty bad combination. We basically end up conducting an experiment on the planet, not knowing how the whole thing will turn out, just to satisfy the endless and insatiable desire to have more, have better, etc. etc. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 24, 2011 @ 2:15 am The perfect male: The less than perfect male: » Posted By whatsthatsound On May 1, 2011 @ 2:58 am Every day I get in queue, to get on the bus that takes me to you….
» Posted By whatsthatsound On May 1, 2011 @ 2:53 am Hi foxisms, thanks! Yeah, Mika is really talented as an artist, though she doesn’t pursue it. She’s a poli-sci major. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 9:43 pm I don’t get that. My daughter’s pretty predictable. It’s pretty much always about what time we eat. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:52 pm alas! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:38 pm I want a woman to look at me like that when I tell her I’m doing something creative. All I ever get is my daughter saying, “That’s nice. What time do we eat?” » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:32 pm Who could use a little Audrey? The smile at the end is to DIE for!
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» Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 7:28 am Ry Cooder, “Crazy Bout an Automobile” » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 7:21 am Neil Young, “Long May You Run” » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:57 am The Who, “Going Mobile”
Keith Moon on Lead Drums! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 30, 2011 @ 6:28 am What a cool website the Newseum is! And thank you, as always, Cher, for making so much information accessible and all in one place! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 24, 2011 @ 4:42 am John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address Hey, AD, thanks for posting this! It was/is a good dream. Now that’s the kind of country I want to see more of in the world! We know how to live right. Wise words such as those above don’t come out of nowhere. We just don’t seen able to stop those who DON’T know how to live right from making such a mess of things. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 29, 2011 @ 6:08 pm In that sense, I agree with you. I think Morissey, formerly of The Smiths, epitomizes what you are referring to. Once, during an outdoor concert, he smelled a barbecue, and threatened to call off the concert. “I smell roasting flesh, and it BETTER be human!” he shouted, or something like that. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 10:08 pm Hi KT. I don’t think you can say that vegans are “wrong”. They are perfectly aware, I imagine, that carrots don’t exactly ask to be pulled out of the ground and eaten. The “moral high ground” you write about, to the extent that it exists, derives from exactly what you mention – the degree of sentience, and more importantly, the degree of suffering caused to the organism that is killed. We have no way of knowing whether or not vegetables and fruit experience pain. We can certainly imagine, however, that their cells go into full panic mode during the harvesting and cooking processes. So if not pain, then at least distress. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 9:32 pm Hi Caru, Well thought out. Your entire argument seems to hinge on the assumption that killing another human is “immoral”, or at least “morally unjustifiable”, in case by any chance those two don’t mean precisely the same thing. I think there is a reasonable rationale behind that. Most people would agree with something like “well, sometimes it is necessary to kill, for example to save ones own life or protect innocents, but we should always be VERY mindful of what an extreme, and potentially traumatic to ourselves, act that would be”. If the fact that most people in any society feel that way (I’m assuming, of course, but hopefully with cause to), then perhaps that equates to killing being immoral. In that sense, I agree with you. Furthermore, I agree with where that argument leads you (and me): We must NEVER allow killing to become a casual, easily justified, commonplace occurrence, such as always happens in wars. Nicely done! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 21, 2011 @ 9:59 pm How could you not? He sounds perfect! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 10:28 pm What a great photograph that is, Cher. And a magnificent dog! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 9:15 pm That test totally proves to me that people don’t see gorillas when they are counting how many times basketballs are passed! Um….what am I supposed to do with this information? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 6:10 pm Huffington Post: The Not-So-Sweet Smell of Success Hi e-cat! There are striking similarities between Marianna and Marion ( I read some more of her articles because I love mysteries!) but my guess is no, not the same person. But I’m usually wrong about that kind of stuff. 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2011 @ 5:00 pm That “Biden Should Resign” headline did it for me too. It came out of the blue. There were probably signs before then, but I either don’t remember them or didn’t notice them. I noticed how anti-Hillary the site was during the primary campaign, so figured HP was finagling for a Obama election (and commented as much – a comment that was actually allowed back before the days of Uber Moderation). Even then, the Hillary coverage was laced with the kind of vindictiveness and low blows that has become the norm there now. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 22, 2011 @ 6:05 pm I think you could almost make a reasonable argument that people need to become LESS political. Current politics has become part of the problem. Already people are talking about who is going to run for president a year and a half from now. That means it gets to be a leading story for the next eighteen months on “news” shows. People like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity get to make lucrative careers out of makng “political” points when in fact they are just entertainers. They are to politics what Charles Barkley is to sports. Their whole purpose is to make it somehow interesting, give it the “heroes and villains” theme that keeps people coming back. Meanwhile, the true story of this country is that corporations are now in charge. The government serves them first and foremost. Already BP is welcomed back into the fold of government contracts. Perhaps if we could do away with politics altogether and not use it as a failed method of interfacing with the corporations that really run things, things could run better. We could just wash all that distraction out of our hair, and take it straight to the fat cats. Get them to work with us better. By buying or not buying, by choosing small over big, by taking less pay to join green companies instead of Old Energy companies. Changing the dynamic of how people live in a corporatocracy. Do away with the sham of caring who wins, who runs, who gives the best speeches. I’m off my soapbox now and am ready to go into full retreat from c-lady. 🙂 This was just my, not very well thought out, rant. For what it’s worth. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 20, 2011 @ 3:17 pm “Eddie? That’s rather a tender subject.” » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 20, 2011 @ 2:04 am I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener…… » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 19, 2011 @ 5:21 pm Thanks, Cher! Wise and illuminating commentary. There are those who believe that life itself is an alchemical, i.e. refining process. As Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross says, » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 19, 2011 @ 4:43 am Weekend Music Thread – Heart Beats true. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2011 @ 10:26 pm I know that feeling, your last line! I’ve been nearly brought to tears by songs in Japanese until I finally worked out what they were saying. I had them so much richer and meaningful and poignant when I only understood about a third of them! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2011 @ 10:03 pm somehow the images just don’t match THAT way,either…:) » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2011 @ 10:01 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
We have all these “time saving devices”, while most people I talk to feel busier now than ever…explain to me how THAT works!
Really good comments, views that I very much share. And I’m glad you enjoyed the article. 🙂
Daltrey’s brawn
Townshend’s brains
Moonie’s sense of humor
Entwistle’s height
Townshend’s brawn
Moonie’s brains
Entwistle’s sense of humor
Daltrey’s height
What a putz.
But even so, I would never call the choice of veganism wrong, or done to impress anyone. I think it is admirable.
We are not the same as Europe. There, governments are still in charge. Good ones, bad ones, but still it is government that runs things. We have a different reality here, and we have to acknowledge it.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
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