January 2005
February 28, 2005
Oscar and Felix
I can't remember when exactly I gave up on the Academy Awards. Was it when Gladiator won Best Picture? I think it was before then but not long before.Movies are my religion. I go to connect with what makes us human. They remind me about creativity, beauty, laughter and light and also stupidity, greed, unoriginality and
February 21, 2005
meat is life
I love pigs too much not to eat them. I also love chickens, ducks, cows, lamb, fish and shellfish. And don't forget cheese and eggs, cream and milk.Carnivorism is a natural method certain species take advantage of to maintain their species. Same holds trues for the production and farming of milk, eggs, leather, wool and other animal products. And I'm not talking about the end consumers of animal products. I mean the animals themselves benefit.Over time certain wild animals became domesticated because they provided to man food, clothing, houshold products or protection. Those species and breeds that produced meat, eggs, milk, wool or leather better in quality or quantity were favored by their human partners and allowed to reproduce their better suited genes.
February 15, 2005
you can't kill 'em all
Germs. The featured story this morning on the Today Show was "Dirty America". The hard-hitting, crack news team went into the trenches of daily big-city life to uncover the dirt that lurks beneath the surface. Be afraid. Be very afraid. There are germs everywhere.That's it. That’s the revelation. NBC pointed out a fact that has existed for at least the last half million years. Germs are all around us. Some will even make you sick. Some could kill you! Truth is the germs were there long before NBC came along to point them out. Washing your hands three dozen times a day may prevent a cold or two a year but that's about it. If you don't want to get sick from other humans, go live in a grotto with your cat who is also carrying around her own host of bugs.NBC's next piece will be an investigation into cemeteries where they learn that human beings die. Six things you can do to put off the inevitable.
February 11, 2005
Quote of the Week
"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them." -- Voltaire
February 04, 2005
Monkey Sea
"We live in a nation of idiots." That's how I was going to start this entry. Well, actually I was going to start it, We live in a nation of idiots (without the quotes--a straight,unnuanced message). Then I thought about it and it wasn't 100% accurate. Yes, there are idiots but probably no more than before. It just happens that the idiots are the ones talking the loudest and getting the air time in the media.The film "Million Dollar Baby" is supposedly being attacked (so I read) by conservative critics around the country. These people are under the belief that one person's actions must serve as a model for everyone else and if they cannot be formed into a universal law these actions must be condemned or everyone will blindly follow them.