tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post8854116513051177180..comments2024-01-26T10:25:48.047-08:00Comments on shrimplate: A Flight of Comorantsshrimplatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-47364759935782775442010-10-26T14:00:22.820-07:002010-10-26T14:00:22.820-07:00To live and live well is the answer. Let's sur...To live and live well is the answer. Let's surf. No one can argue with that.Been Therenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-29804189642639393432010-10-25T21:04:18.369-07:002010-10-25T21:04:18.369-07:00Your good deed for the day: introducing me to the ...Your good deed for the day: introducing me to the Higdon concerto! I am unfamiliar with all elements of this phenomenon (well, I do know of Hilary Hahn).<br /><br />I wonder a lot lately at the concept of the social collective. I didn't used to consider those whose views did not align with my own as being evil or malign or criminally stupid; I used to rue the hatred spewed by the right wing media machine and to take comfort in its exceptionalism.<br /><br />But I find I hate some people now in a way I never used to. I think there is a growing segment of our citizenry who embrace things which are manifestly untrue, and this embrace is imperiling all of us. It seems like emotional, fear-based appeals in the pursuit of power are triumphing over the very baseline of rationality. I neither understand why people embrace the anti-rational nor understand how I might see things differently.<br /><br />And more and more I fear it all reflects badly on me.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-25932049033615115542010-10-25T16:14:35.630-07:002010-10-25T16:14:35.630-07:00worked at a hospital where a right to life battle ...worked at a hospital where a right to life battle was won by the family to turn off all nutrition (if such a thing can be a "win"). The number of outsiders who were shipped in and PAID to strap themselves to columns in front of the hospital and harrass patients and families of patients were disgusting.<br /><br />They had no interest in the tragedy of this girl's death, or the tragedy of her persistant vegetative state, or the sadness of her parents, or the sadness of her caregivers of the last 15 years. They just wanted their few minutes on the national news.<br /><br />I think I <i>should</i> go surfing in Gaza.WinnyNinny PooPoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13237156887425609665noreply@blogger.com