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The Enemy of My Enemy

I don't know. That's what he said though.
Well, we could try simple political arithmetic

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Bitch ~~

CHECK MY MATH
Marx Bros were Jews. Communists were the enemy of the Jews' Fascist enemy. Therefore Jews must be having immoral sex with Communist whores. Oops, sorry, Communist whores -- damn it, I said it again, I mean, PROSTITUTES. Whew!

What's that? Oh, I'm just being told, the new preferred word is "bitches." Oh, OK. Bitches! How y'all doin? Holla, Bitches! Where's my Commie Bitches?!

If there is anyone I have forgotten to offend, please let me know.

Why an American Watches Japanese TV

A long list of reasons.

Here are just a random few...

• the most beautiful natural landscapes, flora and fauna -- including ...

  • cranes elegant mating dance in anticipation of Spring
  • foxes running around in snow up to their elbows

• science programs -- Science Zero, Science Clips

They explore many interesting, nay, fascinating topics.
One I just saw that was pretty cool:
3D IMAGE TECHNOLOGY
They explained how to create 3D images without the use of glasses.

And how to create 360 degree images depending on the position of the viewer. That is, you can view an imaged object from the top, bottom, or any side.

It would be so great to load those cubes with pictures of

... the universe as seen from W-MAP!

• Boys Will Be Boys, Okinawa
• unique viewpoint on nuclear weapons
• unique viewpoint on many things
  
  

You left me.

You left me.
Then you say I was "not there" with you?
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
What? You blame me for not running after you like a dog?

yOU SO HATEFUL SO hurtful so vicious
reminiscing bout your victories
defeating, deflating
destroying defeating
STOMP on the bloody guts
then grab and swing the entrailis
in a loop with a whoop

whoop-de-do
whoo-hoo

PTSD JOURNAL - another day, another trauma

bruised and bloodied
i silently scream
i'm in the grip of your machine

hypocrite
idiot
frenemy - now i know what it means

my lips, my tongue a target
for talking out of turn
just when you think it's quiet
Continuing to burn

Dirty Looks I Get

I love to laugh, but if I do, my son gives me a dirty look.

I love to think about serious matters, but if I do, my daughter gives me a dirty look.

Look at you, laughing, crying. That's disgusting.

electromagnetism for kids

Here's a hands-on activity everyone should try.

What you need:

1. a hand-powered (e.g. crank) electric generator
2. a load (e.g. lamp) which can be connected to the generator by a switch

Turn the crank with no load connected, then with the load. Feel how the generator is noticeably harder to turn.

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Another idea:
a motor/generator (one device that can function as either?)

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Automobiles are now equipped with regenerative braking systems . Bicycles too! Actually bikes have had little generators used to power lights almost as far back as I can remember. And these impede the free forward motion of the cyclist a little. However they were not used for the purpose of braking, but rather for lighting for night time riding.

What Are You Grateful for Today?

the Sun, the Moon, the stars

bacteria, plants, animals
more properly the three domains...

Magical Thinking

Despite finding money under my pillow, I never really believed in the Tooth Fairy. The Easter Bunny and Santa Claus were funny fictional characters for a kid to contemplate, not magical beings.

In my twenties I became a voluntary slave to a belief system utilizing the common dualistic or rather trinary idea that humans are composed of three separate entities -- the body, the mind and what Westerners commonly call the "soul."

I have come to be a monist.

The distinction of mind as separate from brain seems to me artificial or semantic, a matter of definition. We invented a word to describe what we perceive as our own consciousness. The word "mind," and the concept, have their uses. But is consciousness something separate from brain or is it an attribute of a functioning brain? It has been described as an "emergent property," a very interesting concept. The difficulty in examining consciousness, is that consciousness is the very thing that is doing the examining.

Let's move on to the soul, sometimes called immortal soul, just to emphasize its purported indestructibility, and to remind believers that it would be spending eternity in either Heaven or Hell. I gather it is supposed to be some sort of consciousness that can inhabit a body, but is independent of and does not require a body for its existence.

This is a wish fantasy. People don't want to die, don't like the idea of death, so they cling to fantasies of indestructibility.

When I was ten, it was fun to read Superman Comics. No one ever confused it with reality. That lack of confusion did not make Superman less fun. If anything it made it more fun, because if people started believer Superman was real, then the whole subject of Superman would acquire a weird, worrisome aspect.

The Easter Bunny is not controversial because no one takes it seriously. There is no more evidence to support the existence of any consciousness after death, than there is for the Bunny. Yet people cling to the belief in it.