Bruce Lee. Via thedaytheytriedtokillme and mills who added:
…This quote makes it clear he would have found our present cultural drive towards accumulation and reproduction, online and on computers, problematic; I suspect that the incessant coveting, hoarding, arranging, transcribing, duplicating, and sharing of our experiences is likely an effort to substantiate somewhat flimsy existences, often without as much emotional or ethical meaning as we’d like.
At the risk of applying the quote too vulgarly - I’m reminded my dwelling is in dire need of cleaning and organization. Just as I, and certainly others, underestimate how revitalized we’ll feel by becoming fit after a slothful period, I likewise often underestimate how wonderfully unstressed a good uncluttering and jettisoning of some superfluous posessions will make me feel after a period of hoarding.
Jackie Wilson “Reet Petite.”
For my Irish Catholic Dad, whose inexplicable fondness for R&B contributed to making me the sexy novelty I am today.
“There’s a worldwide issue with iTunes that Apple is working to resolve,” AT&T spokesman Mike Coe said.
Maybe time for one last Fake Steve Jobs post before retirement, Dan?
jakehurwitz pondered:
“the death penalty seems to mainly be about justice, you take a life, the government takes yours. But it’s not really an eye for an eye. A murder victim doesn’t usually get to have a last meal of his or her choice, they don’t get to say goodbye to loved ones, they don’t have the opportunity to leave the world with thoughtful final words. I don’t know that there’s any way I would try to improve the process, it just seems weird.”
I like the interpretation that Exodus 21:23-27 isn’t about retaliatory minimums. If you read it thinking ‘exactly’ or worse, ‘at least,’ should precede ‘an eye for an eye,’ (leaving aside practical obstacles thwarting such exacting justice and the fact this maxim is specifically countermanded in the Christian Gospels) you may come to a radically more harsh retribution.
That interpretation best suits street gangs and ongoing fights, like Malone said in The Untouchables:
They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!
If you instead assume the words ’at most’ should precede it, you come to a restrained measure of justice, one that - while by no means turning the other cheek - permits alternative punishments (clinical execution, indefinite confinement, or pink underwear chaingangs for examples). Ideally these punishments will remove a threat to society while respecting the very human dignity flouted by the convict.
NoraLeah spit hot fire in a skim-daringly-long post on MN state politics. Starting with that fateful morning in ‘98 when a small band of Minnesotans, hopped up on Maple syrup and Lutheranism elected ‘the Body’ Governor, she provides anecdotal analysis up to present-day.
In response, I’d like to offer some random, name-droppy tidbits of limited interest:
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled against ‘right of reply’ statutes for print journalism - mandating publication of subjects’ replies to editorial criticism, usually contemporaneously - in Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo. Then-Chief Justice Burger’s opinion, which left open the door for libel claims and retraction mandates, states:
“The choice of material to go into a newspaper, and the decisions made as to limitations on the size and content of the paper, and treatment of public issues and public officials — whether fair or unfair — constitute the exercise of editorial control and judgment.”
I agree, given the protection of libel laws, the 1st Amendment takes precedence. Still, it’s fun imagining how the practice might check cable news into reporting…just the facts. While it could perpetuate the broken-record nature of reporting on slow days, or replace direct attacks with more innuendo, there would be hope of broadening the topics covered and increasing the amount of investigative journalism.
Picture Bill O’Reilly’s, or Sean Hannity’s, or even Keith Olbermann’s, exasperation if subjects they attacked in commentary could opt on for, say, 2 minutes - outside the confines of those quasi-interviews where hosts steer dialogue with loaded or distorted questions - just rebutting the prior segment in monologue.
While grazing in an Atlanta Apple store on Saturday, I overheard one employee tell a customer about “people already lining up in New York,” for the new iPhone. I thought he must have been kidding. A week’s a long time to camp out even by die-hard fan standards. Sure enough:
…on July 4th, no less, about 10 people decided to get in line at the 5th Avenue Apple store for the 3G iPhone — a full week before its release.
I think I’ve finally been won over by the iPhone, but prefer to gamble that Apple/ATT’s supply chain will provide even those of us not up for urban camping the chance to buy one shortly after it drops.
Since the 1994 VAT Act taxes food made ‘substantially wholly…from the potato,’ Pringles, containing ~42% potato, gets a pass. This isn’t as bad as finding out what’s in chicken nuggets, but it’s nevertheless another reminder I often don’t know exactly what I’m eating.The judge allowed an appeal by manufacturers Proctor & Gamble against a VAT Tribunal decision that Pringles should be standard-rated at 17.5 per cent as falling within the definition ‘potato crisps, potato sticks, potato puffs and similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch.’ … Most foodstuffs are zero-rated for VAT, but Revenue and Customs argued that Pringles fell within the ‘potato crisp’ exception, reports the Telegraph.
patriciahandschiegel’s post (condensed, below) is very topical. The NY Times ran articles the other day on the subordinate role more husbands are playing in their entrepreneurial wives’ professional lives -Would You Hire Your Husband? - and the roles they aren’t playing - The Wife’s At Work, So…. The Journal Women’s blog weighed in on both articles.
Yesterday, I met a very smart and successful mentor for drinks…We got to talking about what’s next for me and he asked how he could help…I honestly couldn’t answer…I asked if I could have a week…
I realized that what I really needed help with was how to make what I’m already doing happen faster, bigger and better…I’m already doing most of it on my own now…what I really need is support, people smarter and more experienced standing in my corner on a constant basis to help more or less guide and direct, open doors and lend experience as needed, so that I can maximize all of what I’m doing and in turn, all would benefit.
What’s interesting is that a lot of the women entrepreneurs I know actually have this in husbands and boyfriends, where the men in their life play a big role in their businesses. I definitely wouldn’t mind having a smart, connected, business-minded boyfriend,…
