Saturday, November 24, 2018

What Does It Mean To Be a Libertarian? -

"I want you to be scared, because if you’re not worried about encroaching fascism in America, before long, it will start to feel normal — and when that happens, we’re all in trouble," says Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at .



Part theatre performance, part get up and dance The Inaugural Annual Dance Affair is an all ages performance event that immerses audience in an evening of old time and new time dance floor magic.
Everybody Now! led by Ian Pidd, Kate McDonald and Bec Reid work with real stories and real people. A local cast of millions - musicians, dancers and special guests. Kim Hair made the show ;-) Ach and dropping your better half on the dancing floor is not a forgettable event ...

The Inaugural Annual Dance Affair - Bundanon Trust





How Has This Show Not Been Cancelled?’ How ‘South Park’ Keeps Going In The Age Of The Outraged Tweet


“In fairness, it is genuinely quite surprising that it’s managing to survive in 2018, a time where making a joke about something horrible is now deemed nearly as bad as the horrible thing itself. South Park season 22 has therefore had to change in order to ensure its survival in the outrage era. As the world – well, the world of Twitter at least – gets angrier and more reactionary, [Trey] Parker and [Matt] Stone have had to fine-tune their satire, making the takeaways of each episode more balanced than ever before.”





Artist Ross Bleckner And Ex — Ex-Assistant? Or Ex-Boyfriend? — Sue Each Other Marko a Jano


“Bleckner claims the relationship was personal and consensual in nature, and alleges that [Cody] Gilman attempted to extort him by making false claims of sexual harassment. Gilman, for his part, contends that the relationship was professional and that he was subject to inappropriate sexual behavior by the artist and had been attempting to reach an out-of-court settlement.”

Declassified 1949 CIA manual gives warning to disinformation on social media The Hill 








Another New Thing You Can Borrow From The Library: Cooking Utensils


Some libraries in upstate New York have begun adding cake pans, cookie cutters, and other bakeware and utensils to their circulating collections. It’s part of the spreading practice referred to as the “library of things.”





Cut off from the world, an Indian island remains a mystery


For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel Island have kept away from the rest of the world.




Libertarians are commonly atheists. Probably that is because the independent-minded teenager who denies both left and right politically is also likely to have rebelled against all the silly stuff his parents told him about God at an even younger age. My preachment to my libertarian friends is not to rest at any arguments, commitments, or ways of life just because they seemed cool to a 14-year-old boy. (The girls, I find, are less dogmatic.) When I beg them to read a serious book about religion at age 30 or 50 they echo the New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris: "No, why would I do that? I already know it's rubbish. I decided it was at 14." Please, read and reflect as grown-ups.
 What Does It Mean To Be a Libertarian? - Reason.com







A Children’s Book Sold After 27 Years In The Store, And (Of Course) The Store’s Tweet Went Viral


The store in Northwest England has gotten hundreds of replies about selling the book, about William the Conqueror. “Author Sarah Todd Taylor tweeted in response, ‘The book held its breath. It had hoped so often, only to have that hope crushed. Hands lifted it from the shelf, wrapped it warmly in paper. As the door closed on its past life, the book heard the soft cheers of its shelfmates.'”



 An Australian wedding magazine, White, refused to feature same-sex couples. Advertisers shunned it. Now, White has shut down, the BBC reports.