This video is from the album My Maudlin Career, by Camera Obscura. The song is good and bears repeated listens. The video is sort of an homage to films about love, or about couples anyway. There’s a little French New Wave in it. A little Fellini too. It works. We should all dance down the sidewalks and jump over things and climb lampposts when we’re out on dates, shouldn’t we?
Watch liberal MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow in this video. Watch the whole thing. She’s leading us through what may amount to the most terrifying fascist speech ever delivered to the people of the United States. The sitting president is moving toward setting up a legal structure that will place people in ‘prolonged detention’ BEFORE they have committed any crime or have even been charged with a crime if they are determined to be a possible danger to the United States. Maddow points out how this is the exact premise of the science fiction film Minority Report which was based upon a Philip K. Dick story. This is a well-known liberal commentator who says at the end of the video that this Obama speech is ‘one of the most radical proposals for defying the Constitution that we have ever heard made to the American people.’
The American Civil Liberties Union has responded with short statement.
The bottom line is that this president is shocking human rights and civil liberties organizations all over the world with his rapid move toward fascism. These are largely liberal organizations that once looked upon Mr. Obama as a welcome change from eight years of assaults on civil liberties. They and many liberal voters in the United States are profoundly disappointed and legitimately horrified at what they are hearing from this president.
So, if you write or say something that makes someone somewhere in the Obama administration decide that you might be some sort of danger in the future, you could be arrested and held in a new separate legal structure that could keep you imprisoned indefinitely – forever.
That is a profoundly un-American and illegal idea.
In this fast-paced and colorful short, Pixar sends Mater to do some incredible street racing in Tokyo. This one’s a lot of fun.
These are incredible, huge, and crystal clear photographs of the May 2009 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope is the greatest astronomical instrument ever devised and this is its last repair. The mission was very dangerous because the Hubble orbits in an area with a high density of space junk. A rescue mission was actually waiting on the ground with another shuttle in case the main mission ran into trouble. These pictures are fantastic.
This book contains pirate battles, violence and death. Please use your judgment before playing for very young children.
Here’s a free podcast of our fantastic pirate adventure novel written for young readers. It’s got hidden scrolls, time travel, ships, battles, navigation, gold, islands, jungles and helicopters in it.
Or you can purchase the paperback from Barnes & Noble (Price: $11.95)
Description:
Young Jack Spencer sees his father’s boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure.
When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge with Captain Jameson’s crew, he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
Set during the golden age of Caribbean piracy, Pirate Jack combines rollicking adventure with the moving story of a boy’s love for his father and a courageous effort to save a way of life.
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Lee Siegel has written an article in the Wall Street Journal called Where Have All the Muses Gone? Huh. Well, let’s see if we can make a half-hearted stab at figuring that out. Where have they all gone? The first important thing to realize is that muses are female. Apparently. I’ve read through Mr. Siegel’s article and find it loaded with male artists who seem to require the subtle services of female muses. Some of these men are even married to wives who are actual female artists but who function for Mr. Siegel and his article as ‘muses’ for their lucky men.
So it would seem that if you want to find out where all the muses have gone you would simply need to figure out where a woman would go who might be fed up with dragging her artist boyfriend or husband through the jagged ravine of his writer’s block. I don’t know for sure but my guess is you might find her down at the municipal court house filing divorce papers.
Honestly, reading through Mr. Siegel’s article just makes me laugh. Why doesn’t he have a single example of a female artist with a muse of her own? It staggers the imagination to think that the world has not known a single woman artist with a male muse. And Dante didn’t have a muse for goodness sake. Beatrice? Really? Dante was a nasty little Italian man with a bone to pick with every passerby he ever ran into. Reading Inferno is like reading through a litany of every petty wrong Dante felt he had to hold onto and seek literary revenge for. This guy would have driven any kind of self-respecting muse straight into the nuthouse. If I were Virgil I would have ditched him around the corner on the third level down.
You know who my muse is? It’s Mick Jagger.
The illustration is Carl Wilhelm Friederich Oesterly’s portrait of Dante and his supposed muse Beatrice Portinari.
