I’ve decided to close my Facebook account immediately. Tonight. The linked video will explain why, and I strongly advise you all to do the same.
It’s been great reconnecting with old friends but I’m outta there. If you’re connected with me on Facebook, you can still keep up with me through my MySpace page.
You’re on your own. Good luck!
I wish everyone could see it.
It’s a heartwarming, elegant but fun PSA about Spay-Neuter, made by some good humans in Nashville.
If I’ve shared this before, here it comes again. Things like this little video move and inspire me.
marginalia (ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə)
— pl n
notes in the margin of a book, manuscript, or letter*
Video: When Toys Take a Road Trip.
Video: Dog won’t leave his master’s grave.
News link with comment: Charges dropped against students at UC Davis.
Social comment: Cowards Among Us. Real men face the bullies and stand up for students.
Politics: Where does OWS go from here? (An email from filmmaker Michael Moore.)
* Content from my other blogs; i.e., what I do while I watch TV.
If you’re thinking of deep frying your bird this Thanksgiving, you need to watch this dramatic video starring William Shatner. If you’re not, you need to watch it anyway, ‘cause it’s funny.
Thanks to Mike Elgan, on Google+, for this highly important public service message.
I received an email from a friend, expressing his dismay over the governance of our country. I have to agree. Again and again, lines of poetry come to mind; lines of the very poem from which this blog takes its epigraph:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
– W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
Read the last 2 lines again to yourself, aloud.
Oh yes, so it goes in America these days.
next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims and so forth
A Metaphor merit badge if you know the source of that quote off the tops of your tri-corner hat.
Anyway, I’ll share the thought with which I responded to my friend: to hell with governance. It has done us very little good, ever. Governance is good for building roads and starting wars. Meaningful, systemic, sustainable change doesn’t come from the top. And we should never doubt the talent of a few honest, committed people to bring change to life. Because that’s the only thing that ever has.
What we need now is leadership, not governance. If only we can get governance to stop brutally evicting leadership from the public parks, we’ll be on our way.
Actually, it’s better for the cause of progress if the police keep right on attacking and evicting, beating, teargasing, etc. As always in history, tyranny is the symbol and catalyst of the restoration of freedom.
Here’s a great short video to watch: A special comment from Keith Olbermann, 11.15.2011.
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