~ Bohemian proverb
"He promised unity, but sowed division. America deserves better."
Well, things seemed to get pretty awkward for a minute during the 2018 State of the Union. What moment was that, might you ask? Oh, it was when First Lady Melania Trump didn't stand when Trump discussed "faith and family" during his addressAn early look at Wednesday's front pageTrump pats himself on the back during first SOTU address https://t.co/vU1aB3kjeHpic.twitter.com/W7J6DJPSUB— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 31, 2018
There was also a bit of an embarrassing blunder when it came to printing tickets for the event. The typo of "Uniom" is particularly sensitive considering Trump's speech is set in the context of a starkly divided country.
Things unravelled further when it was pointed out that "Visitor's Gallery" should have been typed as "Visitors' Gallery".
Read the full text of Trump's State of the Union address
Last night we were able to watch for few minutes the movements of the brightest moon around 10:30ish even though the Bra beach was cloudish Blue moon, supermoon, total lunar eclipse rolled into one
Against Wind and Tide
An old joke says that a sadist is someone who’s nice to a masochist ...
George Orwell’s classic essay on writing
Butterflies and hurricanes pay no heed to borders, but humans will risk their lives to cross them, build walls to mark them and kill to defend them
An old joke says that a sadist is someone who’s nice to a masochist ...
George Orwell’s classic essay on writing
Remembering Investigative Journalist Robert Parry Norman Solomon, Nation
Irrelevance is the fate of most political magazines. Yet there are times when they change the course of history. Now might be one of those moments
Obsession for the Perfect Worker Fading in Tight U.S. Job Market Bloomberg. Help me. More neoliberal messaging. Ridiculous overspecing of jobs was a huge management perk in a weak labor market. They got to keep themselves busy by wasting time on job searches with the spurious goal of not having to train workers. Do you really think that netted out ahead in managerial time saving? If so, I have the Sydney Harbour bridge I’d like to sell you. Making jobs artificially hard to land also increased boss power v. worker power. See Kalecki on why capitalists don’t like full employment even though that preference cost them in profit terms.
Irrelevance is the fate of most political magazines. Yet there are times when they change the course of history. Now might be one of those moments
Obsession for the Perfect Worker Fading in Tight U.S. Job Market Bloomberg. Help me. More neoliberal messaging. Ridiculous overspecing of jobs was a huge management perk in a weak labor market. They got to keep themselves busy by wasting time on job searches with the spurious goal of not having to train workers. Do you really think that netted out ahead in managerial time saving? If so, I have the Sydney Harbour bridge I’d like to sell you. Making jobs artificially hard to land also increased boss power v. worker power. See Kalecki on why capitalists don’t like full employment even though that preference cost them in profit terms.
What really happened after this photo was taken BBC. Re an iconic Vietnam War image.
‘Carl Sagan’s rolling in his grave’: Academic hits out at profit-making on alien-bound Golden Record RT
Today in cryptocomedy FT Alphaville
Butterflies and hurricanes pay no heed to borders, but humans will risk their lives to cross them, build walls to mark them and kill to defend them
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness is next on my list.
At the edge/Of a world/
Beyond my eyes
/ Beautiful/
I know
Exile Is always
Green with hoe
The river
We cannot cross
Flows foreverIn a video for Audi, Candide Thovex skis in locations around the world without any snow. He skis in the jungle, on water, on volcanic ash, down sand dunes, and across the Great Wall of China. The sand dunes in particular look incredibly fun. I wonder how many pairs of skis he ripped up making this?
See also Thovex’s past videos: a fun run down the mountain, more creative freeskiing hijinks from Candide Thovex, and his previous commercial for Audi (Come back in December )
I am haunted by the face behind the face ... I am the unnoticed, the unnoticeable man:
The man who sat on your right in the 256 cafe:
The man you looked through the SMH:
The man who was the colour of recycled teenager
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.
"Only an artist can tell,” James Baldwin wrote,“what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. What it is like to die, or to have somebody die; what it is like to be glad?"
What do you think, Ursula? I asked her in my head. Were you predicting anything? Not exactly, she answered. It’s a thought experiment. But then, so is our society.
↩︎ The Guardian
Whistleblower claims accountants Ernst & Young turned a blind eye to Dubai firm he says painted 5 tons of gold to look like silver
Ach. God. Ach. For someone who does not exist He has caused MEdia Dragon a great deal of trouble.
Dating without last names (WSJ
Everything leads to and everyone is going to Berlin ... Before the Berlin Wall
Babylon Berlin - vynikající seriál o Výmarské republice varuje před
Babylon Berlin: it's time to party like it's 1929
How a Highlands publisher has hit the big time with 'Babylon Berlin'
Everything leads to and everyone is going to Berlin ... Before the Berlin Wall
Babylon Berlin - vynikající seriál o Výmarské republice varuje před
Babylon Berlin: it's time to party like it's 1929
Yet, it was Sandstone Press and its director Robert Davidson who secured the English language rights to the "Babylon Berlin" books by German author Volker Kutscher, a year before it was announced they were being adapted for the small screen — a bet that has paid off handsomely with the books now ...
Babylon Berlin review: political maelstrom, a populist right on the march – sound familiar? |
Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama 'Babylon Berlin' - The New York Times
HBO Europe Picks Up 'Babylon Berlin' – Variety
Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama 'Babylon Berlin' - The New York Times
HBO Europe Picks Up 'Babylon Berlin' – Variety
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