Happy Mortal

On his Oct 7 show, Colbert reported on Conservapedia's project to edit liberal bias out of the Bible. Colbert called his fans to edit his name into the Bible. So that's exactly what Rekonstruct and I did (see the picture below).

Because I never perfectly "improve" myself, I end up directing subtle aggression against myself an awful lot. To me, maitri means: chill out, give yourself a break, and make friends with your self.

So thanks Zizek! I will come up with a good idea, and when I do I will steal your job. What is it that you want?

So many "inspiring" quotes or phrases have the glow of positivity. From motivational posters to famous orations, rhetoric meant to rev our engines usually speaks to the dignity, possibility, and meaningfulness of human being. But as I reflect on those phrases that have had the most "positive" impact on my life, I realize that many of them are in some way negative.

The handicap has become the model of the coming citizen . . . the pervasive injunction, "to be someone," maintains this pathological state that makes this society necessary

So I just stumbled across Antony and the Johnsons cover of Beyoncé's Crazy in Love

It becomes necessary to ask a follow up question at this point: insofar as healthcare is a right, how is it that this right is left in the hands of private sector?

As much as we want to make it black and white (no pun intended), it's simply not that simple.

The architecture of experience is less a question of attributes: can you play a Beethoven sonata on a toy piano? And more a question of resonant space.

In reality, what is truly unfair is our judgment of performance enhancing drugs. These atheletes are giving us exactly what we've been asking for: bigger, better, faster, more. And when we find out how hard they've tried to deliver what we've asked for? We call them cheaters.