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What's Going On?
What is going on this spring/summer?
Well, not much really in the grand history of the world. Will this be a year that is forgotten in the annals of history?
We vaguely remember some sort of formation of a government in Iraq. The Tsunami was memorable, but that was last year.
Maybe something memorable will happen this summer. By memorable we mean something etched into the pysche of at least 40% of all humanity. Is that always something horrible?
How about American history, anything memorable? What will children learn about in history classes 40 years from now? In 2005 this happened! As if events are all neatly self-contained into one year or even several years. What a horrible way to learn about the world.
Meanwhile, we had a staff outing on Friday night and a bunch of us say Dylan at the Beacon Theater in NYC. Holy Shit. What a great show. Bob.
He once said:
Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Meanwhile during meanwhile...
Murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists and most of those killed on the job were not caught in cross-fire in conflict zones but hunted down and murdered, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. (LINK)
God is, indeed, everywhere.
He's in the ocean:
The day that Josh Long and Troy Driscoll were rescued after nearly a week adrift at sea dawned with a perfect sunrise, a rainbow and dolphins capering around their tiny sailboat.
"It was amazing. (Saturday) morning something felt different, a lot different," the 17-year-old Long said from his hospital bed on Monday. "I can honestly say I never gave up hope. God had us in his hands the whole time."
After surviving on their faith, raw jellyfish and seawater for almost a week, the two saw a fishing boat on the horizon late Saturday. They were rescued off the North Carolina coast, more than 100 miles from where they set out off South Carolina to fish.
"I asked God, 'If it's your will that we not live, take us home,'" said Driscoll, 15. "'If not, send us a boat.'"
--snip--
The boys huddled together at night and spent their days searching the horizon for help, praying and singing hymns.
--snip--
Driscoll's father, Tony, was first to get a call from the Coast Guard that the boys were all right.
"I screamed at the top of my lungs that they've got our boys," he recalled. "We never gave up hope. That's the bottom line. God had his angels around those boys the whole time."
(Link)
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he's in the Kansas schools:
Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began.
The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin on Thursday in the capitol Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution. (link)
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But Kansas won't allow him in liquor stores:
More than two years after a court ruling allowed local governments to defy the state's long-standing ban on Sunday liquor sales, lawmakers passed a bill Sunday to officially remove the prohibition from the books. (Link)
Well, not much really in the grand history of the world. Will this be a year that is forgotten in the annals of history?
We vaguely remember some sort of formation of a government in Iraq. The Tsunami was memorable, but that was last year.
Maybe something memorable will happen this summer. By memorable we mean something etched into the pysche of at least 40% of all humanity. Is that always something horrible?
How about American history, anything memorable? What will children learn about in history classes 40 years from now? In 2005 this happened! As if events are all neatly self-contained into one year or even several years. What a horrible way to learn about the world.
Meanwhile, we had a staff outing on Friday night and a bunch of us say Dylan at the Beacon Theater in NYC. Holy Shit. What a great show. Bob.
He once said:
Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Meanwhile during meanwhile...
Murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists and most of those killed on the job were not caught in cross-fire in conflict zones but hunted down and murdered, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. (LINK)
God is, indeed, everywhere.
He's in the ocean:
The day that Josh Long and Troy Driscoll were rescued after nearly a week adrift at sea dawned with a perfect sunrise, a rainbow and dolphins capering around their tiny sailboat.
"It was amazing. (Saturday) morning something felt different, a lot different," the 17-year-old Long said from his hospital bed on Monday. "I can honestly say I never gave up hope. God had us in his hands the whole time."
After surviving on their faith, raw jellyfish and seawater for almost a week, the two saw a fishing boat on the horizon late Saturday. They were rescued off the North Carolina coast, more than 100 miles from where they set out off South Carolina to fish.
"I asked God, 'If it's your will that we not live, take us home,'" said Driscoll, 15. "'If not, send us a boat.'"
--snip--
The boys huddled together at night and spent their days searching the horizon for help, praying and singing hymns.
--snip--
Driscoll's father, Tony, was first to get a call from the Coast Guard that the boys were all right.
"I screamed at the top of my lungs that they've got our boys," he recalled. "We never gave up hope. That's the bottom line. God had his angels around those boys the whole time."
(Link)
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he's in the Kansas schools:
Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began.
The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin on Thursday in the capitol Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution. (link)
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But Kansas won't allow him in liquor stores:
More than two years after a court ruling allowed local governments to defy the state's long-standing ban on Sunday liquor sales, lawmakers passed a bill Sunday to officially remove the prohibition from the books. (Link)
posted by littleboxes at 2:13 PM
3 Comments:
Wow. I thought that Kansas thing was a joke. History truly repeats itself...
And nice Dylan quote. Sounds like your staff had a fun outing.
littleboxes,
happy to hear that the staff enjoyed Dylan at the Beacon Theater in NYC recently. How about that other legend that was also on the bill....Merle Haggard? These two men are both living musical legends. Did your staff enjoy haggard and his band the Strangers?
Haggard was great, but he is no Bob Dylan.
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