Ah yes, the power of belief. I’m sure it never occurred to the officer that his god could have just as easily prevented his being shot in the first place.
Of course, by all accounts the shooter was a 9/11 “truther”, so it would appear that we have irrational beliefs on both sides of the equation.
As am I*.
There’s just no shortage in our country of people who want to tell everyone else how to live their lives, is there?
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One in four American millennials — which it defined as those who were born after 1980 and came of age around the millennium — are not affiliated with any faith tradition, Pew found. They characterize their religion as “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular.”
[W]e’re all dying in increments. I don’t mind people knowing what I look like, but I don’t want them thinking I’m dying. To be fair, Chris Jones never said I was. If he took a certain elegiac tone, you know what? I might have, too. And if he structured his elements into a story arc, that’s just good writing. [...] It may be, the more interviews you’ve done, the more you appreciate a good one. I knew exactly what he started with, and I could see where he ended, and he can be proud of the piece.
Truly excellent article by Chris Jones in Esquire.
Ebert:
I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
How’s that for a personal credo?
Don’t know how I missed this, other than the fact that I’ve had a child in the hospital since Saturday, that is…
Doug Fieger, dead at 57:
Doug Fieger, lead singer and songwriter for the L.A.-based new wave pop band the Knack, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 57.
Fieger had battled successive sieges with lung and brain cancer for six years, and underwent multiple operations to remove brain tumors.
I own every album ever released by The Knack. They were a great band–truly–but never recovered from what had to be about the worst case of overexposure (and its resulting backlash) ever. In the end, however, I think history will be kind to The Knack. I like to think they helped save Rock ‘n Roll. At the very least, they were instrumental (hehe) in bring “guitar rock” back to prominence in a music industry that had too long been dominated by “disco”.
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As a son of South Louisiana, I take special pleasure in congratulating the New Orleans Saints on their amazing win in Super Bowl XLIV.
Way to go!
Scott Bourne provides a professional photographer’s take on the iPad:
I get a real chuckle out of people who say you can’t use the iPad to show off your portfolio because it doesn’t run Flash. P L E A S E! Apple will ship the iPad with a wonderful photo viewer and you can bet your last piece of pizza that there will be LOTS of photo slide players, etc., written for the iPad by third-party developers. Showing pics on an iPhone has landed me more than two dozen jobs. I have no doubt that showing pics using the same OS on a larger, brighter screen will be just fine.
iPad as ultra-portable portfolio. Awesome.
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