Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Call me nuts, but if there’s such a thing as “proper enlightenment,” I think it might have something to do with restraining yourself from pouring energy into “symbolic” solutions so you can save it up for the real ones.
But that’s just me I guess. And other bigoted, sexist, crew-cut knuckle-dragging hardcore right-wingers like the San Francisco Chronicle…
San Francisco voters will decide on Tuesday whether to remove the famous Alcatraz Prison visited by thousands of tourists a day and instead create a “global peace centre.”
The proposition sharing the presidential primary ballot comes from the director of the California-based Global Peace Foundation who gives his name as Da Vid. He says transforming Alcatraz will “liberate energies, raising the whole consciousness of the Bay Area.”
Supporters would like to raze the prison and build a medicine wheel, a labyrinth and a conference centre for non-violent conflict resolution. Volunteers collected 10,350 voter signatures last year to put it on the local ballot.
But even in a city long famed for its embrace of counterculture, many are sceptical about [t]he plan.
“Perhaps we haven’t reached the proper stage of enlightenment yet, but we’re more inclined to support propositions with defined sources of funding attached to them,” the San Francisco Chronicle said in an editorial.
Alcatraz is San Francisco’s second-most popular paid tourist attraction after cable cars, luring 1.4 million visitors annually on a short ferry ride into San Francisco Bay.
To sceptics Da Vid responds: “Like John Lennon, I may be a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
H/T: Boortz.
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- Webloggin - Blog Archive » Alcatraz Replaced with Global Peace Centre? | 02/06/2008 @ 12:00This is great! Let’s get as many of them on to the island as possible and then leave them there.
- Duffy | 02/06/2008 @ 16:43This is a brilliant plan to convert a site visited by thousands daily into a site visited by dozens, once. Explain to me again why this type of person is not in charge of our economy.
- chunt31854 | 02/07/2008 @ 09:16He says transforming Alcatraz will “liberate energies, raising the whole consciousness of the Bay Area.”
Speaking as a refugee from the SFO Bay Area SSR, I think SFO’s consciousness has been raised quite enough. I wanna see a proposal that lowers it by an order of magnitude. But then again, I don’t vote there any longer…so MY opinion counts for diddly.
- Buck | 02/07/2008 @ 13:49