tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73248752024-03-07T20:02:56.703-06:00meg does blogsmeg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-47457734744342538312011-12-19T15:26:00.000-06:002011-12-19T15:27:17.201-06:00Pain“Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.” William Styron Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-64053075034319194922011-12-03T15:30:00.001-06:002011-12-03T15:31:55.514-06:00Martina Davis Correia - Rest In Peace“I want people to know that we didn’t fail. As long as we keep hammering away at this thing, as long as we refuse to give up, we haven’t failed. We’ll be doing what Troy would have wanted us to do. Our efforts made an impact and we’ll continue to make an impact.”Martina, the sister of Troy Anthony Davis, died December 1, 2011, 10 weeks after Troy was executed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-58101912237956547812011-12-03T15:19:00.002-06:002011-12-03T15:20:32.779-06:002000 Dandelions by German artist Regine RamseierAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-8128858209742481092011-12-03T15:13:00.003-06:002011-12-03T15:18:58.804-06:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-20469400494649471822011-11-08T06:21:00.010-06:002011-11-08T07:09:54.289-06:00Marilynne Robinson's Review of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion"It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science."Harper's Magazine October 20, 2006Richard Dawkins is an Oxford professor and the author of a series of best-selling books that popularize a version of evolutionary theory. According to Dawkins, evolution is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-41254667570004446082011-10-27T17:12:00.004-05:002011-10-27T17:19:54.587-05:00Couldn't resist posting this one. And it's absolutely true. Sobriety will take years off your appearance but, alas, it works both ways...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-37122664074642345082011-10-27T14:28:00.003-05:002011-10-27T14:34:15.750-05:00The Death Penalty's De Facto Abolition?Published: October 14, 2011 The New York TimesA new Gallup poll reports that support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since 1972. In fact, though, the decline, from a high of 80 percent in 1994 to 61 percent now, masks both Americans’ ambivalence about capital punishment and the country’s de facto abolition of the penalty in most places.When Gallup gave people a choice a year ago Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-17590051318465938192011-10-27T13:33:00.002-05:002011-10-27T13:36:19.047-05:00Occupy Movements are quite a measured and even timid response to this crisisThirty Years of Unleashed Greed EMAIL PRINT SHARESHARE10Posted on Oct 26, 2011AP / Jay FinneburghIraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, lies bleeding in Oakland, Calif., after being struck by a projectile apparently fired by police. He suffered a skull fracture while marching with other demonstrators attempting to re-establish a presence near a protest camp disbanded by authorities, said Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-82095606245117317442011-10-19T21:21:00.003-05:002011-10-19T21:30:01.438-05:00LARB News!!Announcing the debut of LARB ePubs:Now available on the Amazon Kindle store for $4.99:A compilation of some of the best of the first six months of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Featured articles:Ben Ehrenreich on “the death of the book.”David Shields on the thin line between life and art.Geoff Nicholson on Buster Keaton, the Human Mop.Laurie Winer reads the novels of Glenn Beck (so you don't Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-64791737155824954372011-09-10T19:50:00.001-05:002011-09-10T19:52:17.732-05:00"Can the heart still feel what the heart must feel."The Decade of Magical ThinkingSTEVE ALMOND BIO ↓ · September 9th, 2011 · filed under POLITICS, RUMPUS ORIGINALA Rumpus Lamentation on What We LostSay you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that day. Most of these deaths were caused by malnutrition Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11268301223905947744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-47908624073577079462011-07-10T19:44:00.000-05:002011-07-10T19:45:53.545-05:00The Pathologies of HopePathologies of Hope by Barbara Ehrenreich,Harper's Magazine, February 1, 2007I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated for breast cancer: Think positively! Don't lose hope! Wear your pink ribbon with pride! A couple of years later, I was alarmed to discover that the facility where I received my follow-up care was called the Hope Center. Hope? What meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-50947766358980406692011-07-06T05:04:00.004-05:002011-07-06T05:15:31.229-05:00Chris Hedges: I Don't Believe in AthiestsI Don't Believe in Athiests"I spent so long in war zones that I think we don't know what we would do under repression and abuse -- you know, if somebody killed my father. That's the brilliance of the great writers on the Holocaust, like Primo Levi and [Bruno] Bettelheim. They understood the humanity of their own killers. That line between the victim and the victimizer is razor-thin. We all carry meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-7330422034816328432011-06-14T19:49:00.003-05:002011-06-14T19:54:12.055-05:00Kafka's AmericaNo Justice in Kafka’s AmericaPosted on Jun 12, 2011 in TruthdigBy Chris HedgesIn Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-29066573380390417862011-06-14T18:53:00.004-05:002011-06-14T19:00:12.687-05:00Over Connected?The Drug Pusher in Your Family RoomJun. 14 2011 Apple, Google, Electronic Arts, Zynga, Facebook, LinkedIn, Sony, Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), and Nintendo are all leveraging Darwin. And why not, when it makes for such good business?For 150,000 generations — 2.5 million years — humankind has been evolving in physical space. In the process, evolution designed our brain chemistry to deal meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-17756641819482160702011-06-06T19:57:00.005-05:002011-06-06T21:27:20.536-05:00Starting from scratchDecided to change my template. More changes than I'd imagined. The huge header is disconcerting so I am trying to figure out how to downsize it. Biggest change is that my hit counter disappeared so I'm starting from scratch on the hit counts. Before switching templates, my blog had had 11,166 hits. Not too shabby although I suspect at least 80% of those hits were from people looking for a White meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-55819323240210963282011-06-05T17:09:00.002-05:002011-06-05T17:14:28.175-05:00Just one of those dayswhen it all feels pointless. Sick of being lied to by the holier than thou crew. Not to mention the f-ing judgment. Look at me!! Look at me!! Sickening.meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-59153292130107259032011-06-02T14:18:00.001-05:002011-06-02T14:19:54.460-05:00My Life Under CoversHow accurately do memoirs reflect the people who write them? Nic Sheff, our newest columnist, has a few thoughts on that. The 'Beautiful Boy' Grows UpI’m a writer.Or, I’m trying to be one.I mean, I’ve been trying since I was a little kid.It’s what I’ve always wanted to be.Honestly, I’m not even sure why that is exactly. My dad and mom are both writers—that is, journalists—so maybe that has meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-61561769533337598482011-04-21T19:14:00.004-05:002011-05-14T13:53:08.394-05:00AA's Most Annoying ClichesI hold Alcoholics Anonymous in the highest regard. This said, I think it is acceptable, if not necessary, to address its contradictions and platitudes. I don't necessarily agree with everything Knox has to say but I appreciate it when anyone takes on a sacred cow and hope this post will be a catalyst for further conversation and critical thought. A.A.'s Most Annoying ClichesBy Justin Knox04/07/meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-2771878476565586492011-04-02T01:23:00.002-05:002011-04-02T01:32:34.390-05:00Letter from Caroline HerschelWilliam is away, and I am mindingthe heavens. I have discoveredeight new comets and three nebulaenever before seen by man,and I am preparing an Index toFlamsteed's observations, together witha catalogue of 560 stars omitted fromthe British Catalogue, plus a list of erratain that publication. William saysI have a way with numbers, so I handleall the necessary reductions andcalculations. I also meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-54066105155423226312010-11-11T04:53:00.001-06:002010-11-11T04:54:27.826-06:00From the Book of Hours ~ Rainer Maria RilkeI live my life in growing orbitsWhich move out over the things of the world.Perhaps I can never achieve the last,but that will be my attempt.I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,and I have been circling for a thousand years,and I still don’t know if I am a falcon,or a storm, or a great song.~ Rainer Maria Rilkemeg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-34346258939523676582010-10-08T16:00:00.001-05:002010-10-08T16:02:08.008-05:00Double Happiness?meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-52747242027928138792009-10-02T20:11:00.008-05:002009-10-02T20:30:30.059-05:00You Don't Have to Scream the "O"more fun the gang at McSweeneys (if you are offended by the setting here, keep reading)ARSE POETICA.BY MIKE SACKS AND TEDDY WAYNE- - - -Thanks for having me over and listening to my movie pitches. When my fiction-writing classmates at the Iowa Writers' Workshop heard I was headed to Los Angeles to make it as a screenwriter, they called me a sellout. But if "selling out" implies meeting with meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-3545334429537929212009-09-23T04:59:00.014-05:002009-09-23T05:33:45.790-05:00Rick Moody InterviewRick Moody is one of the most celebrated American writers of his generation. His work includes four novels; Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Diviners, as well as three collections of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven, Demonology, and Right Livelihoods. His first novel, Garden State, won the Pushcart Editor’s Choice award and his memoir, The Black Veil, meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-87799347113807014992007-09-27T12:01:00.000-05:002007-09-27T12:08:47.903-05:00All of this Means Better EducationNEW YORK (Reuters) - Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming. "We're cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more meg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324875.post-27196364106960735872007-08-17T12:38:00.000-05:002007-08-17T12:40:12.766-05:00Jack Sparks List - Part IJack's Top 100 Country Songs of All Time - the first 101. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, HankJimmie Rodgers put Country Music on a train out in the sticks. It stepped off that train at the downtown station with Hank Williams and went to Main Street. The lyrics of this song, without accompaniment could be a 19th Century pastoral shepherd's lament. The imagery is complex while the words remain simplemeg L whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14630140092820879645noreply@blogger.com0