An anecdote, probably meaningless
2012-10-10
This morning was garbage day on my street.
i was waiting for the bus when i noticed a grocery bag a few houses down the road. It was beige and unmarked. The opening was tied up, but from the lack of inertia in its movement, the bag looked empty.
The way it was keeping balance while being blown by a light wind, it looked like the bag was a large-cat-sized mouse, with a knot for a tail, skittering back and forth across the road.
A truck eventually came up the street towards me and narrowly missed the mouse, but the slipstream was enough to blow it upwards and make it roll and twist. The illusion of life was broken and the mouse became a bag again.
i don’t believe them.
2012-10-09
worst press conference of all time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcbAqK-qTY
Mormonism: even stranger than i thought
2012-09-23
Why I Love Mormonism – Simon Critchley
[…] “ ‘As man now is, God once was. As God now is, man may be.’ ”
“So, dear Simon,” my new friend concluded, “we, too, can become Gods, American Gods, no less.” He chuckled. I was astonished.
Welcome to Sex House!
2012-09-09
A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]
Philosophy Now: Moral Enhancement
We are at the early stages of such research, but there are few cogent philosophical or moral objections to the use of specifically biomedical moral enhancement – or moral bioenhancement. In fact, the risks we face are so serious that it is imperative we explore every possibility of developing moral bioenhancement technologies – not to replace traditional moral education, but to complement it. We simply can’t afford to miss opportunities. We have provided ourselves with the tools to end worthwhile life on Earth forever. Nuclear war, with the weapons already in existence today could achieve this alone. If we must possess such a formidable power, it should be entrusted only to those who are both morally enlightened and adequately informed.
(via Reddit)
specialness
2012-06-27
Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We’re Not Special
There is a generation in [a country very close to Canada] that believes in its own specialness. I will agree with that. But you’ve got its identity wrong.
to let ourselves be seen
2012-06-24
and they can still talk
2012-05-01
Forty years in solitary: two men mark sombre anniversary in Louisiana prison
Since 1972, Wallace and Woodfox have been brought before more than 150 prison boards where their unprecedented duration in solitary confinement has been reviewed only for them to be sent straight back to their cells. The only explanation given: “Nature of the original reason for lockdown”.
Meanwhile, in Alberta
2012-04-08
Alberta’s education minister said he was assaulted on Saturday while door-knocking at a home in the provincial election campaign, but the man who answered the door denied hitting Thomas Lukaszuk.
