Apologies for light posting but again I'm having constant post failures from Blogger. I'll be away at a journalism conference the next couple days so if this post ever goes through it may be the last for a few days.

"There are elderly people all over this country dying every day from simple neglect. People just forget about them. Maybe Congress could subpoena them! That way, when they didn't show up, they'd be in contempt of Congress and someone would have to go find them and at least change their sheets and give them some hot broth.
...Somewhere in Florida, there's a woman who has no idea she's become a celebrity. It's such a shame that she'll never write a book to cash in on her fame. But someone will write a book. Oh, yes."

And, on a less serious note:
For your amusement, here's Net Disaster, where you can create all sorts of distruction on a Website you hate.

And David Byrne has created Radio David Byrne where you can listen to music selected by David:

"A friend who relocated to California from NY said she missed hearing all the odd variety of music that was played around the office here. "I miss hearing what you all are listening to," she wrote. This 'radio' is my response."

"There are a lot of ministers and people trumpeting Christianity down there. I hope some of them remember that this is a religion of forgiveness, grace, and peace -- remember that turning the other cheek thing, folks. Unfortunately, though, it is the men of the cloth who've been the angriest on TV."

If I am rendered comatose and determined to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for a period longer than one month and if no imminent cure is forthcoming, I do not wish to be kept alive by artificial means including but not limited to nourishment, hydration, etc.
However....
If, due to the absurd political state of affairs in this country, my persistent vegetative state and impending unplugging can be parlayed into some sort of political leverage, I wholly endorse using my predicament in whatever way possible for the purposes of passing legislation favorable to my general political and ethical outlook.

"Somehow I was able to hear this podcast even with my older computer. I loved the format. It was intimate and personal, and made you feel like you were sitting in the kitchen with them over a cup of tea. I found this an interesting and wonderful way to hear John's thoughts on the issues we are all concerned with today."

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"We now have the federal government -- and not just the federal goverment but both houses of Congress and the President himself -- inserting themselves into an individual medical, legal, family dispute. Watch the avalanche of individual cases that will now fall upon Washington: You did it for Terri, why not for my cousin?"

"...by defending what Justice Brandeis called "the right to be left alone" we can offer Americans a powerful framework for assessing the legitimacy - and morality - of government intrusion and paternalism in our most personal decisions.
...Ours is - or rather should be - a culture that sees preserving individual autonomy as vital to liberty. Call it "the Culture of Living.""

Union Jack.

A British officer in Basra said: "The Americans can be pretty pumped-up. Sometimes they fire in broad daylight when we are travelling at two miles per hour, shouting that we are British out of the window and waving the Union Jack. If they shoot, our drill is to slam on the brakes and race in the opposite direction."

'It introduced a standard for document authentication very difficult for news organizations to meet - "chain of custody" - and, lastly, it characterized parts of the broadcast as false, misleading, or both, in a way that is close to nonsensical. One is tempted to say that the report has as many flaws as the flaws it believes it has found in Dan Rather's CBS broadcast.'

"If, on our proliferating planet, we end up, one of these days, with an actual apocalyptic scenario on our hands, it will be too late to thank the GWOT (global war on terror) intellectuals, who took a terrible situation and are managing to turn it into the Schwarzenegger movie from Hell."

"i clicked and poof ---
you are gone but not forgotten
your words resonated and were felt
you hate me
stranger
hear ya - loud and clear
feel ya - i got it boys

...stay away from the dark side luke"

When the game was up, the investors took a beating. Stock worth $1,000 in March 2000 was worth only $2.67 by June 2002. The company once worth more than Boeing fell to the value of two Boeing 777s.

"When he died last summer, I told myself that he was finally at peace. As I stood over his coffin with my wife, I reached down and took his arm in mine. I unbuttoned his sleeve and rolled it up. I looked at the number again - 58877241. My wife looked at me and asked "Why are you doing that?" All I could say was "So I don't forget." Right then I made my promise to him - Never again."

"If you don't think the Web is a powerful, earth-shattering tool, I hope you think differently."

"The targets of the liberal blogosphere are conservative activists; the target of the conservative blogosphere is the free and independent press itself, just as it has been for conservative activists since the '60s. "

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Cities able to grow and attract globally-connected, high-value service firms can access, and benefit from, a worldwide array of customers, workers, and contracted services, ultimately boosting quality growth at home."