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Mar 30 2009
Muse in the Morning
Mar 30 2009
On Earl Avenue
Is there a soul to a house?
If we call it just a house and not a home, does it still possess a soul separate from the vagaries of mortgages, layers of paint, or crayon, or grease on the walls, busted pipes in the winter, the seepage stains that are like Mercatur projections of alien continents on whitewashed mortared walls?
Does the heart of a house exist outside any memory of the tangible moments that mark the living within? Or does the spirit of a house, soul-centered in an aging body of wood and brick and nail, pulse simply because there are lives, loves and deaths that pass through? Perhaps an invisible, silent, tender skin of cares, of worries, of hopes, coats every moment exchanged. Coats the hallways, the rooms, the stairs, the steps leading away. In this old house on Earl Avenue.
Mar 30 2009
Monday Morning Business Update
| Old News |
Saturday
1 Bank execs vow to work with Obama on recovery plan
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press Writer
Sat Mar 28, 1:42 am ET
| WASHINGTON – Top executives of the nation’s biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House. In an interview with CBS News, Obama said his overarching message was this: “Show some restraint. Show that you get that this is a crisis and everybody has to make sacrifices. They agreed and they recognized it. Now, the proof in the pudding is in the eating.”
Bankers said an administration proposal to jump-start lending, a problem at the heart of the industry’s crisis, is encouraging. “People are looking at that. It’s positive,” Morgan Stanley’s John Mack told The Associated Press in an interview. “We think it’s the right thing to do and now we just need to get the details.” |
Mar 30 2009
Pachydermicide, the Perennial Sport of Kings
I have always considered myself a sportsman, old boy. Not such a striking thing to admit, I’ll allow-but in the current age of crass exhibitionism and crude violence, the simple sportsmanship of big-game hunting does seem to still carry a certain cachet with the public imagination. As it should-and has, for many years, thanks to great men of the past-but of course, when I mention the word “hunting,” the unfortunate modern connotation is of half-wit archer-apes with cat scratch fever running around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. However, those damn fools will have a long row to hoe before they do true damage to the hunting ideal, eh what? Quite.
Mar 30 2009
Torture News Roundup: A Woman Tortured?
Top Story
- Female prisoner at Bagram: In an interview, Binyam Mohamed revealed that there was a female prisoner when he was imprisoned at Bagram in June 2004 for around 3-4 months:
1. He saw a female prisoner wearing a shirt with the number 650 at Bagram prison. 2. The guards frightened the male prisoners into not talking with the woman prisoner for fear that the prisoners “would know who she was.”
3. In terms of how this woman may have been tortured, Binyam knew that the woman was kept in isolation and he “could tell that she was severely disturbed.”
4. Binyam heard that she had children, but did not see the children at Bagram.
5. The woman was from Pakistan and she had studied or lived in America.
Mar 30 2009
The continuing adventures of Chlorosilane
My husband and I do a lot of online gaming. We like to pick silly or witty names for the characters: Mysthang Foshizzlyo, Freudian Slap, stuff like that. I have an Anarchy Online agent named Valerie Plame and a Guild Wars dervish named Meclazine Skelaxin. (Anyone in the medical profession will get the joke.)
One day last summer I came home in a really, really bad mood. I’d found a little yellow book in my merry volkswanderung in the big blue room. I won’t say where, and I won’t say what the title of the book is. That book had a little piece of paper stuck between some particular pages, and I really didn’t like what those particular pages had to say.
Mar 30 2009
Free Energy Since 1150?
The concept of perpetual energy appears to be an age old idea. The “laws” of physics state that such things are just impossible, the pipe dreams of people who don’t understand and or can’t measure the claims properly.
Nature itself is full of energy. It makes the world spin, the lightening strike and brings the tide in and out. Is it real of is it pipe dreams.
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