Wow. A fantastic ukulele version of While My Guitar Genty Weeps by uke maven Jake Shimbakuro. I like how the sun breaks through and shines on Jake in the middle of the video. Coincidence? I think not. Also check out the NPR piece on Jake.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6155338
10 December 2008
04 December 2008
Plaxico Burress and Gun Law
The author of the article below argues that Plaxico should be freed because (i) the Supreme Court's recent Heller decision regarding the DC gun law will ultimately make all gun laws unconstitutional; (ii) the NYC law is unconstitutional because it is arbitrary; (iii) the various local gun laws prevent law-abiding citizens the right to protect themselves; and (iv) mandatory sentencing laws are bad.
It's hard to be completely wrong in any argument, but this guy is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! He only gets one argument right (hint: its the last one.) The author is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, the DC Libertarian think tank, so it's not hard to see where he is coming from. Surprising that he would be published in a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper.
Heller is a very limited decision dealing with a specific portion of the DC gun law and extrapolating that decision to a blanket finding that all handgun laws are unconstitutional is a very long stretch. The NYC gun ban law is not "arbitrary" (in the legal sense of that word) because only a few people (who are "politicians, retired police and celebrities"...oooh those damn celebrities) get "full carry" gun permits.
Let's get real. Handguns are bad mojo. Plaxico is lucky he didn't kill himself or anyone else. Handguns are intended to do one thing only...kill people.
And they do, in alarming numbers, especially in inner cities, like Philadelphia where drug related gun violence kills more than a person a day, every day.
Why don't we get it? We have to get rid of handguns. If we tread on the Second Amendment (or what the Supremes think the Second Amndment means), I am down with that.
BTW, is anyone more bone-chillingly stoopit than Plax? in the waistband of his sweatpants? Stupidity is not a crime and I will bet his salary he does not do time.
Free Plaxico Burress - WSJ.com
It's hard to be completely wrong in any argument, but this guy is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! He only gets one argument right (hint: its the last one.) The author is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, the DC Libertarian think tank, so it's not hard to see where he is coming from. Surprising that he would be published in a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper.
Heller is a very limited decision dealing with a specific portion of the DC gun law and extrapolating that decision to a blanket finding that all handgun laws are unconstitutional is a very long stretch. The NYC gun ban law is not "arbitrary" (in the legal sense of that word) because only a few people (who are "politicians, retired police and celebrities"...oooh those damn celebrities) get "full carry" gun permits.
Let's get real. Handguns are bad mojo. Plaxico is lucky he didn't kill himself or anyone else. Handguns are intended to do one thing only...kill people.
And they do, in alarming numbers, especially in inner cities, like Philadelphia where drug related gun violence kills more than a person a day, every day.
Why don't we get it? We have to get rid of handguns. If we tread on the Second Amendment (or what the Supremes think the Second Amndment means), I am down with that.
BTW, is anyone more bone-chillingly stoopit than Plax? in the waistband of his sweatpants? Stupidity is not a crime and I will bet his salary he does not do time.
Free Plaxico Burress - WSJ.com
25 November 2008
Check, please!
Er...I know $700 billion sounds like a lot, but...could it possibly be more?
Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA's lifetime budget -- *combined*! - Boing Boing
Bailout costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA's lifetime budget -- *combined*! - Boing Boing
24 November 2008
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
A highly entertaining essay by a really engaging author about the changing landscape of filmmaking.
For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get. Here reality, or fantasy, is built up one pixel at a time as an author would build a novel one word at a time. Photography champions the world as it is, whereas this new screen mode, like writing and painting, is engineered to explore the world as it might be.
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get. Here reality, or fantasy, is built up one pixel at a time as an author would build a novel one word at a time. Photography champions the world as it is, whereas this new screen mode, like writing and painting, is engineered to explore the world as it might be.
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
21 November 2008
16 November 2008
13 November 2008
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters
"COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him 'constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.'
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
'Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,' Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein."
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News:
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
'Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,' Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein."
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News:
Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know
All right! A Mac user. For getting things done.
Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know - Telegraph
Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know - Telegraph
09 November 2008
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