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‎I have just been reminded that “Julia” is the name of Winston’s girlfriend, in Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”…   Turning the weird up to 11…

Next up will be a correction. “Forget ‘Julia’. Let’s just call her something neutral, like Liberty 5-3000.”

Just a test…

This amazing film is a collection of criticisms of virtually all things Japanese and some merely related to japan, dressed as a moster movie, dressed as a mockumentary.
The atomic monster what-have-you gets a send-up, but the meat of the film is in an adoring but heartbroken look at Japan.  From the first scene when the busdriver announces the stop as “Nakamura Shrine, get off here for the shopping mall”, the movie is a reflection on a society which has forgotten its past, and developed a small and petty focus on the here and now and ooh, shiny!

As the old style problems diminish, so do the old skills for comping with them, until all that is left is pathetic echoes of former glory, longing for a … Continue reading →

While potentially offensive, the images posed a substantially lower risk of provoking abuse against children than realistic ones, the judges found.

They said it was important to recognise that manga cartoons are deeply rooted in Japanese culture.

via BBC News – Swedish manga cartoon translator cleared of child porn.

For the brave FDNY and NYPD and others who gave their lives, their health, their brothers to the flames and cataclysm in the hope of saving civilians: You were civilians in your own right, ambushed in a war from overseas, overmatched, laid low by cowards.

I humbly thank you for your sacrifice. You were not victims in the end, but soldiers in a battle of unknown dimension. While the world ended around you, you won, you hear? You did not lose, but won, and we the living will repay our debt to you, will not forget, will not forgive, but will emerge victorious.

This I swear.

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This is a ship so heavily damaged that merely preventing new damage will not save her. The water continues to pour in through old damage, and time is running out.We need to use the jurisprudential principle of remoteness to blast a hole in /stare decisis/, so that wrongly-decided cases may swiftly be overturned, and their decedents uprooted, debasing laws and federal programs along the way.

This is my alternative to violence. What do you think?

Do not misunderstand Tea Party quiet right now. We are digesting an unpleasant fact. Even those of us who support Romney as a pragmatic measure are confronting the news that far from not setting things right, he may not even be able to halt the new damage, which is our only reason for … Continue reading →

Issues matter, and winning matters. These two things can work against each other from a Tea Party point of view if the media is allowed to keep them aimed at each other. Therefore, we must work to keep pressure on the media itself, and continually spoil its ability to run interference for Obama.

Attacking Obama on issues of substance rarely works for us. Why? Because he is insubstantial. He hardly exists on paper and while we all know what he is against, few would be prepared to tell you what he is for. This wraith-like figure haunting Washington D.C. has mastered the art of attracting fire without getting hit.

Stop trying to hit Obama, and go after the press instead. That’s all Obama is made of anyway, and … Continue reading →

07 June 2013, i dont see the memorial. I hope its been moved domewhere nuce.  

The bus dropped us off in front of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, and we had seven hours to kill. We wandered. I saw a crane starkly silhouetted at an impressive angle, and went to grab a shot of it. My son took the opportunity to walk along a winding concrete wall through a small triangular green space. Two female security guards or airport police stood nearby enjoying their cigarettes. It took several shots of him, practicing keeping him right on the 1:3 horizontal guide in the viewfinder, as he wound his way away.
He mentioned that some state’s flag was on the ground, and I asked him which one. He … Continue reading →

Shoddy workmanship is theft, and at the moment a worker decides that he is finished with what he knows is a shoddy job, he compounds the theft with a lie. The secret to making work go away quickly is to do it right, and for a subtle reason. If time or another resource is a constraint, then the best job possible within the constraints is the right way, even if there are weak areas. To measure what is right, compare against what is possible, not what is perfect.
The subtlety is that work drags on for people because they wish to forestall the moment they must tell a lie about their theft.  Rather than slow work being an avoidance of free time, which of course makes no sense, … Continue reading →