Do You Dig Graves?
I was just looking up this clip and I accidentally googled, "How do you dig a grave?" I'm sure the cops are on the way here now. You are all invited to be witnesses for the defense at my trial.
https://youtu.be/6T6GxEw5_I0
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Confucious- "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
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I'll bet that a lot of anti-bullying type people go on Twitter and elsewhere and pile-on strangers for perceived minor injustices.
June 15, 2019
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Stephen Jay Gould, on the meaning of life:
The human species has inhabited this planet for only 250,000 years or so-roughly 0.0015 percent of the history of life, the last inch of the cosmic mile. The world fared perfectly well without us for all but the last moment of earthly time–and this fact makes our appearance look more like an accidental afterthought than the culmination of a prefigured plan.
Moreover, the pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable. Human evolution is not random; it makes sense and can be explained after the fact. But wind back life’s tape to the dawn of time and let it play again–and you will never get humans a second time.
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher’ answer — but none exists. This explanation, though superficially troubling, if not terrifying, is ultimately liberating and exhilarating. We cannot read the meaning of life passively in the facts of nature. We must construct these answers ourselves — from our own wisdom and ethical sense. There is no other way."
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Gretel just told me that throw up, puke, and vomit all mean the same thing. I told the two of them to ask their mommy for some more words for it. Zuzu said, "That's because she's a scientist!"
June 15, 2019
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I hear about the intellectualism of Warren and Buttigieg rallying the base, but I'm not convinced. I keep thinking about the time an Adlai Stevenson supporter called out to him, "Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!" He answered, "That's not enough. I need a majority." That's funny, but he lost to Eisenhower twice.
June 15, 2019
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Gretel has been staring at her fingers and watching them move. She's rightfully perplexed. She's discovering something all of us forgot a long time ago- mind over matter is something real. We use our minds (immaterial) to move our bodies (material.) Strange!
June 15, 2014
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Bad art from Goodwill for father's day, 2014
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On June 15, 763 BC (a Wednesday), Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
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On this day in 1648, the first witchcraft hanging, Margaret Jones lost her life to a bunch of people who didn't understand science. 322 years later, Charles Manson went on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
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On this day in 1896, the deadliest tsunami in Japan's history killed more than 22,000 people.
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Rembrandt's painting Danaë was attacked on this day in 1985 by a lunatic who threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with a knife.
Lisa del Giocondo was born on this day in 1479. She was the subject of the Mona Lisa. She died in the plague of 1542.
Chuck Palanhuik, Fight Club- "Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart."
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Nik Wallenda became the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls want to stay in 2012. You know what his grandpa used to say? "The dead are gone and the show must go on."
I nearly bought his book at a used book store for $2 until I saw that it was all about Jesus. Blah.
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Waylon Jennings was born on this day in 1937.
"I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane."
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A famed chicken-eater, and cross-country beer drinker, named Wade Boggs was born on this day in 1958.
How many bogs could Wade Boggs wade, if Wade Boggs could wade bogs?
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Courteney Cox was born on this day in 1964. Forget Friends, Scream, and the rest. If she did nothing else she would be remembered for dancing with Bruce Springsteen in Dancing In the Dark. I think she has the most pure face I've ever seen in my life in that video.
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Albert Einstein- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
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From Skeptic Magazine
Top 10 myths of popular psychology.
Myth #1: We Only Use 10% of our Brains
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The Hill, June 15, 2017- CEO's Give Trump a Failing Grade
But what would they know, right?
June 15, 2017
Postscript- On a Sam Harris podcast recently, Sam was laughing about the fact that if you go back to 2015, there wouldn't be even one Fortune 500 company that would think Donald Trump would be a good person to run it.
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The Hill, June 15, 2018- Trump: Kim’s people sit up when he speaks, ‘I want my people to do the same’
Oh I'm sure it was just a joke... no way does this guy have any tyrannical tendencies! And let's not overlook this fact- that's hilarious joke! Right?
But unemployment continued its downward trend from 5% to 4%, so I guess there's no other option but to join in with the cargo cult.
http://hill.cm/yR0ZAtt
June 15, 2018
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Washington Post, June 5, 2019- Elon Musk’s satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us
The sky could be crawling with bright satellites before long and there might be nobody to stop it.
"We all have a relationship to the night sky, whether we realize it or not. It is something that we share in memory with our ancestors. It is perhaps the one constant over generations. We know that the people who came before us saw the planets and stars rise and set in the sky at the same time every year. That steady starlight has been used for navigation around the world; many fishermen still use the stars this way. The North Star was a guidepost for enslaved people escaping through the Underground Railroad: It was the one constant mark of light that pointed their direction toward freedom. And for many of us, simply reveling in the beauty of the darkness is enough to warrant value."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/05/elon-musks-satellites-threaten-disrupt-night-sky-all-us/
June 15, 2019
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Washington Post, June 14, 2019- Sarah Sanders was a prolific liar for Trump. And she did even more damage.
"She treated the media with open contempt — not just as individual people, but the entire enterprise in which they are engaged. She insulted them, demeaned them, and generally acted as though they were nothing but irritants who had no right to raise questions that might undermine anyone’s worship of the glorious perfection that is Donald Trump."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/14/sarah-sanders-was-prolific-liar-trump-she-did-even-more-damage/
June 15, 2019
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/eye-popping-analysis-shows-top-1-gained-21-trillion-wealth-1989-while-bottom-half
If true, through different rates the top 1% could have increased their net worth by a miniscule $19 trillion instead of $21 trillion and the bottom 50% could have doubled their net worth. I've never understood how the top 1% doesn't think it's in their own best interest for the bottom half to have more disposable income that they could spend or invest in the top 1%'s companies. I'm no expert, but wouldn't that be better for everybody?
Updated Jun 15, 2019, 1:51 PM
Jun 15, 2019, 1:51 PM
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Father's Day, 2016
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I love this guy.
Interviewer- "Are you hopeful about what lies ahead?"
John Stewart- "Always. Because the view we get of the country is not accurate. We get the artifice of it, the conflict of it. I’m not naïve. I don’t think that true divisions and animosities and bigotry and prejudices don’t exist. We see that every day. But fundamentally, we are a resilient and strong and resourceful nation that has oftentimes overcome our worst tendencies — ‘overcome’ is probably too strong a word. But our biggest problem as humans is ignorance, not malevolence. Ignorance is an entirely curable disease."
Interviewer- "How?"
John Stewart- "Information and work. You need to talk to people. Ignorance is often cured by experience, by spending time with what you don’t understand. But I honestly don’t know. Well, you know what? I do know: In the same way that Trump’s recklessness is born out of experience, so is my optimism, because good people outweigh shit people. By a long shot."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html
June 15, 2020
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Comment by a historian in Hitler and the Nazis- "It's not that a handful of evil men can do evil things, it's that a handful of evil men can convince a large majority of regular men to help them do evil things."
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A man walks into a bar owned by horses. The bartender says, ‘Why the short face?’”
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Bo Burnham- "A Jew walked into a bar, and I saved him a seat. That’s healing the world with comedy."
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Gilbert Gotfried- “A guy walks into a bar. He sees Joan Rivers is the bartender. He sees a sign over the bar that reads ‘Cheese Sandwich $1.50, Hand Job $10.’ He says to Joan Rivers, ‘Are you the one that gives the hand jobs?’ Joan says, ‘Yes I am!’ He says, ‘Well, wash your hands, bitch, I want a cheese sandwich.’”
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Horace- "When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously."
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Jung- "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
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Waylon Jennings again- "I don't know how the Duke Boys are going to get themselves out of this one."
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