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Across a Burning Bridge

Editor’s Note: The following article by Eric Francis was originally published at the end of 2004, during the presidential election between John Kerry and George Bush. It’s now part of the Planet Waves archives, available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News. I was struck by the parallels in this article between today and four years ago: Eric mentions a moment between two paradigms; then he was talking about Capricorn and Aquarius, but it could easily be the Saturn-Uranus conjuncti

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Interview: Max Ochs

Tomorrow night the Velvet Lounge offers a very special treat: Outsider folk hero Max Ochs will celebrate the release of his new album, Hooray for Another Day, which features all-new instrumental recordings and poetry from the 67-year-old Annapolis native. Along with John Fahey and Robbie Basho, Ochs was among the East Coast Blues Mafia that ushered in the tradition of “American primitive guitar” in the ’50s and ’60s. Along with his influential recordings on “Contemporary Guitar ‘67″ — the f

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John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: George Romero’s “Dead” Films

Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: George Romero’s “Dead” Films Normally, when I talk about a series’ storytelling engine, what I’m really doing is trying to take a look at a long-running (or occasionally short-running) series from a different perspective. Instead of just seeing the elements of the series as part of the st

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Enjoying The Good News Of Christ’s Birth From An Arminian Perspective

Calvinists often argue that God’s love has failed if Christ’s atonement was made for all and yet not all are saved. I find it strange that Calvinists, who are so quick to criticize Arminians for holding to a man centered religion, argue that unless man responds to God’s love in saving faith, then His love for them has somehow failed. How is it that they feel comfortable equating the success or failure of God’s love with man’s response to that love? Is the nature or validity of God’s love dependa

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Blazing Cannons

Leonard Cohen in 2008Leonard Cohen - Glasgow 2008Leonard Cohen - London 2008 (11-14)Bob Dylan in 2008Bob Dylan - New York City 2008 (Source 1)Bob Dylan - New York City 2008 (Source 2)Bob Dylan - Montreal 2008Bob DylanTamworth, AustraliaTamworth Regional Entertainment Centre3/23/01Disc 11. Roving Gambler 2. Song To Woody 3. Desolation Row 4. Country Pie5. Lay, Lady, Lay6. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight7. Mama, You Been On My Mind 8. Girl Of The North Country9. Tangled Up In Blue 10. Standing In The Do

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Shall We Save the Economy … or the Government?

by Vin Suprynowicz Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt – the latter continued and amplified the former’s policies in a kind of one-two punch, as revealed in Murray Rothbard’s The Great Depression – did all the wrong things from 1930 to 1938. In an environment of surplus labor but collapsing capital and credit, free-market entrepreneurs put people back to work by hiring men at low wages (giving them the pride of honest work, and the chance to make more as their skills improve) to make thi

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Galatians 5

Galatians 5 1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5But by faith we eag

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The Open Laboratory 2008 - all the submissions fit to print

It's midnight! So, the submission form is now closed. Over the past year we have collected hundreds of excellent entries for the anthology - thanks to all who made the submissions. Jennifer Rohn has lined up some star people to judge all the entries, and in the end, we'll have the best 50 (plus a poem and a cartoon/image) published in a book with Lulu.com. We will announce the winners in a couple of weeks or so, but in the meantime, bookmark this post - this is the best of science blogging

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Mumia Abu-Jamal: Enemy of the State

Posted by Mike E on December 1, 2008 by Mike Ely “They don’t just want my death, they want my silence.” Mumia Abu-Jamal [1] From Panther to Voice of the Voiceless On August 8, 1978, Mayor Frank Rizzo was in a combative mood at a special afternoon press conference in Philadelphia’s City Hall. Just hours before, Rizzo’s police had staged a massive raid on the home of the radical MOVE organization on Powelton Avenue. After attacking the house with intense gunfire, tear gas and a flood of water, po

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Truth, sex, lies, life, death, love

(The little I was able to catch from that talk by Dr. Telly Somera in the conference I attended last last week. I inserted ???'s in various places to indicate points I failed to catch.)Why do all these things seem to happen all at the same time? Dr. Telly Somera wonders aloud -- rhetorically, of course. The assault is hideous, she implies. The basic things are all being redefined with vehemence never before seen in world history. Is there something going on beneath the surface that we need to kn

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Imposing sippenhaft on “malich” Pakistan: A rebuttal to emotional “orientalist” Brahman bigotry

Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (English: “kin liability”) was a form of collective punishment practiced in Nazi Germany towards the end of the Second World War. It was a legal practice whereby relatives of those accused of crimes against the state were held to be equally responsible and were arrested and sometimes executed. Many people who had not committed any crimes were arrested and punished under Sippenhaft laws introduced following the failed July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 19

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Imposing sippenhaft on “malich” Pakistan: A rebuttal to emotional “orientalist” Brahman bigotry

Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (English: “kin liability”) was a form of collective punishment practiced in Nazi Germany towards the end of the Second World War. It was a legal practice whereby relatives of those accused of crimes against the state were held to be equally responsible and were arrested and sometimes executed. Many people who had not committed any crimes were arrested and punished under Sippenhaft laws introduced following the failed July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July

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Ed Koch Commentary

Recently I conducted a seminar for twelve interns a few years out of college who were sent to me by a foundation that placed them with private firms and public agencies for work experience.  The group asked me what was my greatest concern.  I told them that I feared for America's future.  I said I do not believe our children are willing to fight and die to defend American ideals and that consequently we might lose the war against Western civilization being waged by international Islamic t

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Ed Koch Commentary

Recently I conducted a seminar for twelve interns a few years out of college who were sent to me by a foundation that placed them with private firms and public agencies for work experience.  The group asked me what was my greatest concern.  I told them that I feared for America's future.  I said I do not believe our children are willing to fight and die to defend American ideals and that consequently we might lose the war against Western civilization being waged by international Isla

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Burned by the Incubator

"Battle Of The Demons" by KmountManBy Angela The earliest fights between my mom and step-dad were about church and music. My mom became a Christian before my step-dad did. By this time my grandma and grandpa had both become Christians due to my mom's influence. It was a good thing (for a while) and their life began to change too. Over time each of my mom's three siblings would come to the same conclusion, Jesus was the answer. Over time I would come to doubt that conclusion. If Jesus was the an

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Burned by the Incubator

"Battle Of The Demons" by KmountManBy Angela The earliest fights between my mom and step-dad were about church and music. My mom became a Christian before my step-dad did. By this time my grandma and grandpa had both become Christians due to my mom's influence. It was a good thing (for a while) and their life began to change too. Over time each of my mom's three siblings would come to the same conclusion, Jesus was the answer. Over time I would come to doubt that conclusion. If Jesus was the an

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World AIDS Day and Me

Today, December 1, is Worlds AIDS Day. This image with hearts, love, butterflies and peacocks is dedicated to all affected by HIV/AIDS - which means just about all of us. You probably don’t know I was an AIDS activist for 15 years … I poured much time, love and energy into educating people about AIDS - both to protect themselves and also to help the public understand and be respectful toward people with HIV/AIDS.  Back then there was terrible prejudice … even though there is still, back then th

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Dr. Marvin Ellison at EDS: The Goal is a Radical Queering of Society

On November 13, 2008, Dr. Marvin Ellison, a gay partnered Presbyterian minister and - I kid you not - professor of Christian ethics at Bangor Theological seminary, gave the following address titled "Is Marriage a ‘Must’ or a ‘Bust’? Enlarging the Justice Agenda." Location? Why, the Episcopal "Divinity" School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of course. I'll spare you the fawning compliments to Carter Heyward at the top of the speech and get right to the red meat. In a nutshell, Ellison simultaneo

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Occasionally

Occasionally, I think about why and where, when and how, who and what. Today is one of those occasions. Who determines who else partakes in our lives? So often we give ourselves over to chance and circumstance. I believe we give destiny too much credit for what we do not otherwise have the perspicacity to understand and connect as cause and effect. I grew up sheltered in so many respects. After a time, fearful to swim into the deep relational water of humanity’s ocean I gave into my own fear. I

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Introduction to this astounding history by T. W. Hughes

Or do you think you don’t need to know how the Money Power came to be our masters using puppet presidents? More reassuring to them than their control of nuclear and biological weapons or weaponized clandestine weather modification or asymmetrical monetary and credit warfare and monopoly power is there security in you not knowing that they exist and are steering events.   This short history of their key actions in the 19th and early 20th centuries deprives them of that defense. This is the st

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