Thursday, April 10

Inner Peace - Learning to Breathe in a Breathless Society

Take some time for yourself, eh?

What’s in a Name?

“…I finally embraced anarchism, with all its flaws and schisms because - as an anarchist - I didn't have to tow a certain party line or endlessly bleat any leader's words. And, as I came into contact with more and more anarchists, I found that most of us could agree to disagree on many issues but still find enough common ground to support one another's activities and actions, whether or not we chose to directly participate in them. The important thing was to keep the pressure on - to work, educate, agitate for a better life.”

Would Bill O'Reilly Tell Martin Luther King to Shut Up?

You decide. Political discourse in modern America is appalling.

Star Trek's 'Prime Directive' Is Stupid

“The PD is a science fictional projection of the naturalistic fallacy and injunctions against playing God. It's also a disturbing application of social Darwinism. The underlying assumption of the PD is that a civilization must attain space faring capabilities and advanced technologies through their own means (civilizational [sic] uplift is not an option, I suppose). It's survival of the fittest as decreed by the Federation, and those who cannot progress to an advanced developmental stage or who destroy themselves first simply didn't deserve to be in the Federation in the first place.”  

The President and the Physician

“Comparing Bush’s proposed solution to the stand-still in Iraq with medicine clearly shows what is wrong with this proposal. A physician trying to treat a patient with a certain drug would not consider increasing the dosage if the treatment caused harmed to the patient. It should be obvious no one would like to see a physician known for stubbornly providing bad treatments that do no good – or even do harm – and who can only think of increasing dosages when the ‘treatment’ doesn’t work. But voters are of a different breed it seems than are patients.” An op-ed from Per Bylund.

Azzam the American

“Adam Gadahn, the first American to be charged with treason in more than fifty years, was born in Oregon , grew up in rural California , and converted to Islam at the age of seventeen. He is now twenty-eight. No one who knew him before his religious awakening ever thought that he would join Al Qaeda, and many people who knew him after he did are still perplexed.” (The New Yorker)

Doctors Kill Over 7,000 People Each Year With Their Handwriting

Yikes! Perhaps they should add remedial penmanship to medical school curriculums? Funny and yet sad at same time though.

Kuba.Kobylecki

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