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A fine day of news.

I will sleep a little better knowing this ass-clown is finally getting the boot (or "going beyond" in his words) and this court case is finally coming to the States for a proper civil trial.

I like to think that if I were a youth in the 50s and 60s, I would have marched with Dr. King in Washington, or cheered on those first black students who broke the color barrier in Mobile, voted for politicians who campaigned against segregation, or had class like Peter Norman, but I forget that there were many popular and powerful forces pushing against the movement ...

Man interviews horseradish.

When it comes to foreign policy with Axis of Evils, I used to believe in the bi-lateral approach that respects the sovereignty and dignity of the other, refuses to name call or objectify--that is until I heard NPR's brilliant Steve Inskeep totally waste his time interviewing Ahmadinejad this morning. What a windbag of micturation. Blech.

Another sail on the ship.

We've finished the music up for Urban Hymnal 4. It is good, but honestly, when Matthew Whitney attended rehearsal and sketched up this evil empire, we all felt like another sail was raised on the ship. Very excited to see this thing come together.

This is life.

You hope for things, perhaps children, they don't marry and you're not happy, they marry and their spouse is crap, or their spouse is good and their kids are crap, you're not happy, you're bored, you're not happy, you want something, you want a job, you want peace of mind, it doesn't happen. I've heard that your 30s are meant to be a time of less insecurity, well I ...

Oh H1N1

The news reported that the CDC and others are encouraging the news to not call it "swine flu" but rather "H1N1 virus". And then, the next story: "Swine flu hits Canada!" Brilliant.

The Amazon is a river.

Jeff Bezos was on The Daily Show a few weeks back pitching the new Kindle® and touting the brilliance of their AmazonPrime™ program, which apparently provides you "free" two-day shipping for only $79.95 a year. Stewart's hasty appraisal: "except it costs $79.95 a year". When I see the "33% more free!" label or 10/$10 special that is really 1/$1, a part of me dies ...

Macintosh is a type of apple.

We really should be offended when a corporation advertises that we are their product--"I am a Mac", "Which iPod are you?" for instance--but we aren't.

Poets do it in fewer words.

I labor for hours to string together a meaningful song lyric and once in a great while do I suspect they actually move the listener--I usually hide behind loud production and bell ringing. I think songwriters could learn a lot from our poetic peers, they truly make meaning out of the most delicate little phrases. I am in awe of the theology in this bit that a friend ...

The firehose.

I've been reviewing the films I watch now and thought that blogging them was just as good a place as any. Forgive the firehose of posts there, this is my work from January to present. These days I'm less driven by my borderline faith so I figured why not make value out of my movie-a-night trend that has marked post-graduate life. I nearly resolutioned to not watch ...