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These visits to alternative reality are from a variety of sources. Included are Facebook (fb), Futility Closet (fucl) , and All Aphorisms, All The Time (Aph) .Attempts to maintain a no profanity blog will be suspended for this post. // “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore (fb) // “I have come to believe that religious traditions exist not to serve the faithful, but to help the faithful serve the world.” Brad Hirschfield (fb) // “If you remain in the present moment, you will never get hurt. Forget about your past life. Forget about your future life. Unless you open your heart, unless you jump into the inner abyss, you are not going to become enlightened. Ultimately, you have to knock on your own door; you have to beg at your own door; you have to come back to yourself.” (fb) // What doesn’t kill, oppresses. (Aph) // When I fall asleep beside you, you are condemned to resume my life (Aph) // searching for work is unpaid work (Aph) // Listen and you learn how to lie. Lie and you forget how to listen. (Aph) // I found out how to lie to hacks: I told the truth and nobody believed that. (Aph) // If you are completely attached to your ego, you perceive any criticism, disagreement with your ideas, or even analysis thereof as an attack, so of course you are compulsively defensive. Arguments, power games, judgment, and all the attendant drama in the world spring from this state. Your attempt to gain power overs via these means is insecurity, not strength. Your low cunning, “strategic” thinking, aggressiveness, competitiveness, attacking others in any form, all in vain, for they increase your fear, rather than alleviate it. Your attempts to feel substantial via the attainment of status, recognition, possessions, money, your success or that of your mate or children, a special relationship, power, your job, knowledge, education, skills, the way you look, your religious and political beliefs, your family history, or any other affiliation (what have I left out?)…are self-destructive because inauthentic. And no one else gives a crap, either. (fb) // In the absence that Which Is Not, that Which Is, Is Not.”, “Behold I say onto thee Ye Are As Gods.”, “Seek & You Shall Find.”, “As Above, So Below.”, “The Thing you are looking for is the Thing you are looking with.”Relieved yet? (fb) // A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.-Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (fb) // A celebrity is everyone but himself. (Aph) // An introvert is happy to be no one. To be someone requires the consent of too many people. (Aph) // I’m well over sixty. That’s not always true. Sometimes I’m fairly ill over it. (Aph) // The sky never quite recovers from a fallen tree. (Aph) // I only write the lines I would highlight in a novel or essay. Why bother with the rest? (Aph) // There are no right angles in the brain, though there may be wry tangles. (Aph) // Portion out pleasure so that one can always still increase it. – Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view (fb) // No person wishes to abandon Christian terminology, but they can secretly change it so that it doesn’t require decision or action.-Soren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review (fb) // The public comes into existence because all its participants become spectators rather than participants.-Soren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review (fb) // “I wouldn’t say when you’ve seen one western you’ve seen the lot, but when you’ve seen the lot you get the feeling you’ve seen one.” — Katharine Whitehorn (fucl) // “I see that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum now have Secret Service with them on the campaign trail. And in Santorum’s case I think it’s the first time he’s actually ever used protection,” – Senator Scott Brown, after Conan O’Brien. // Always leave your glasses where you can see them. (Aph) // The more I try to escape, the more the arrow of Everything considers me its bull’s eye. (Aph) // When a tiger attacks you, become a jungle. (Aph) // It is often not what you take off that leaves you naked, but what you take on. (Aph) // Maine is the only one-syllable state name. (fucl) // During a newspaper interview in March 1966, John Lennon said that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.” On August 13, radio station KLUE in Longview, Texas, organized a bonfire in which protesting Christians burned their Beatles records. The following day, the station’s broadcast tower was struck by lightning, rendering the news director unconscious and knocking the station off the air. (fucl) // The longest unhyphenated place name in the United States is Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania. (fucl) // “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost (fucl) // “Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.” ~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama (fb) // “You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently,” J.K. Rowling (fb) // Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon // beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ugly uses all five senses. // “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but for me looking as a Christian, I just don’t see the Jesus that I follow collaborating with the persecution of an already oppressed minority group.” ~ Aussie rugby star David Pocock (fb) // An introvert is happy to be no one. To be someone requires the consent of too many people. (Aph) // I’m well over sixty. That’s not always true. Sometimes I’m fairly ill over it. (Aph) // The sky never quite recovers from a fallen tree. (Aph) // I only write the lines I would highlight in a novel or essay. Why bother with the rest? (Aph) // There are no right angles in the brain, though there may be wry tangles. (Aph) // Wine in, whine out. (Aph) // “I find all books too long.” — Voltaire (fucl) // “One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.” — E.M. Forster (fucl) // “A big book is a big nuisance.” — Callimachus (fucl) // In 1959 Bertrand Russell and Lord Russell of Liverpool wrote a joint letter to the Times: “Sir: In order to discourage confusions which have been constantly occurring, we beg herewith to state that neither of us is the other.” (fucl) // Arrogance: being wrong in a loud voice. (Aph) // The more complicated something is the greater the number of ways it can break down. (Aph) // Buy what you need and you will never want. Buy what you want and you will forever be in need. (Aph) // When you are free to choose, the choice is compulsory. (Aph) // Selah

On this day four years ago, PG put up a post about Jack Kerouac. It was inspired by this appreciation at kikoshouse. Kikos, btw, is still producing, unlike many of the 2008 blogs.
00. Allen Ginsberg asked Mr. Kerouac to define the essentials of “Spontaneous Prose.”
01. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
02. Submissive to everything, open, listening
03. Try never get drunk outside your own house
04. Be in love with your life
05. Something that you feel will find its own form
06. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
07. Blow as deep as you want to blow
08. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
09. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
While researching this post, PG stumbled onto an interview of Jack Kerouac. The interview was conducted by Ben Hecht, who is mostly forgotten today, but was a character. Mr. Kerouac thinks that President Eisenhower is a smart, friendly man. He probably did not play golf with him.
At 1:30 of part two, Mr. Hecht mentions that Mr. Kerouac, and his pals, particularly Mr. Ginsberg, have an “affinity for negroes”. “Negroes have a lot of fun”, they are “full of glee”. While they no doubt meant well by this, many today would consider this kind of talk racist.
Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
Chamblee54 posted a four part breakdown of Satori in Paris, by Jack Kerouac.

It is monday after work, and slack rules. What energy PG had is long gone. He started a nifty post about Truman Capote at lunch, but didn’t feel like finishing it.
Not to worry, Renegade Evolution has the answer. She displayed something called the Cuss-o-meter . Ren copped a 34.5% rating, which is not surprising for a sex worker.
Holy Cow, Chamblee54 got a 0% rating. Dad Gum, by Jingoes. Golly Gee.
The first question to arise is, what do they call cussing? The seven words of Carlin? Anything referring to excretion, reproduction, or the eternal destination of your soul?
The funny thing is, PG is not terribly offended by most profanity. He does try not to use cusswords, because they take attention away from the overall message.
Profanity is a social issue rather than a moral one. Certain words are not right or wrong, but when you use one inappropriately, you betray a lack of respect for the listeners.
There are words that offend PG…like Jesus…that many see as their moral duty to say as often as possible. And this eagerness to profane a sacred name is a violation of the third commandment. (That is, the eagerness of Jesus Worshipers to scream his name as often and loudly as possible. This use of a sacred name, as an annoying distraction, creates untold ill will for the object of  veneration.)
It is a matter of perception. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but ugly uses all five senses.

As the observant reader might notice, there are a lot of reruns on this blog. When you have an archive with 2000+ posts, there is a lot of material. On a slow day, a journey into the past can be a handy cure for writers block.
Part one of this feature was originally posted April 21, 2008. At the time, the Cuss-o-meter was working. When it was time to assemble this post, we made another visit. Chamblee54 got a 0% rating… “Around 0% of the pages on your website contain cussing.This is 100% LESS than other websites who took this test.” This was curious, since the no profanity policy at this blog has been relaxed for a long time.
Renegade Evolution is still in the blogging business, although she is less prolific than before. Her motto is “Damn Skippy it’s a personalized plate if your Dad made it in Prison!”. The last time we checked, damn was considered a wirty dord. Despite this, the Cuss-o-meter gave her a 0% rating.
The last test for the cuss o meter is DontEvenReply.com E – m a i l s f r o m a n a s s h o l e. This site is both copyrighted and hilarious. A person answers an ad, a business arrangement is made, and then things go horribly wrong. Inevitably, there is profane name calling. (The propriety of using a vital, productive body part as an insult will be discussed at a later date.) Despite the copious carlinality of this blog, the Cuss-o-meter rated it 0% cussing. PG has come to the scientific conclusion that the cuss o meter is no longer functioning.
The Cuss-o-meter is affiliated with a dating website. You are invited to join, or click on the fine print to get the results without joining. PG chose the latter, which might influence the results.
This post uses the name of a prominent radio whiner. This name has nothing to do with the content, other than rhyming with profanity. (Nor do the pictures, from “The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” , have anything to do with the content.) 

WSB radio is 90 years old today. On March 15, 1922, The Atlanta Journal received a telegram authorizing it to broadcast weather bulletins. The telegram instructed the station to use the call letters WSB. (Later, a station in Nashville was named WSM.) While the letters were later said to stand for Welcome South Brother (as well as World Series Baseball, and We’re So Boring), they appear to have been randomly assigned at first.
WSB is a 50,000 watt, clear channel station. At night, it can be heard for hundreds of miles around. It’s transmission tower is on LaVista Road, across the street from Northlake Mall. In the seventies, you could hear broadcasts on pay phones in the area.
WSB was owned by the Atlanta Journal, and had it’s first studio in their building downtown. The radio station moved to the Biltmore Hotel when it opened in 1926. In 1926, WSB joined the NBC radio network. (Station logs show a broadcast of the inaugural NBC broadcast in November, 1926.) In 1939, the Journal, and WSB, were sold to James Middleton Cox, who founded Cox Enterprises. In 1950, Mr. Cox bought the Atlanta Constitution.
The thirties and forties were the glory days for radio. In the fifties, television started to move in. WSB-TV started to broadcast on Channel 2. A studio known as “White Columns on Peachtree” was built in 1955, and was the home for the radio and TV WSB.
When PG was old enough to listen, WSB had a format which is no longer in use. It played “middle of the road” music, and had lots of news broadcasting. As FM radio began to dominate music broadcasting, (including WSB FM), the venerable AM station evolved (devolved) into a news-talk format. This is what you hear today.
HT to Peach Pundit. Pictures are from WSB, and ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.

Today is 3-14. It is a monday, and 314 are the first three digits of pi (affectionately known as π ). It is a math thing, the number you multiply a diameter by to get the circumference. When your grammar school math teacher told you about π, she probably used 3.14, or 3 1/7. (PG went to school when Hewlett and Packard were still in the garage.)
You might also have heard the formula for the area of a circle, the racy π r squared . This means that you multiply π by the radius ( half the diameter, a line from the border to the center point), and then multiply the whole contraption by the radius again. The formula has a funny sound to it. Pie are not square, cornbread is square, pie are round. Like Sly Stone says, all the squares go home.
According to wikipedia, π seems to have been known as early as 1900 b.c. The pyramids of Egypt have a π based feature. The Greek letter π is the first letter of the Greek word περίμετρος (perimeter) . This was determined OTP.
The pyramid- π function is fairly simple. The total length of the four sides, at the base, will be the same as the height of the pyramid, times two, times π. PG likes to make model pyramids. They are 6″ tall, and the base sides are 9 3/8″. The combination of these four sides is 37 1/2″. If you multiply 6x2x3.14, you get 37.68″ The .18″ is because of a measuring error.
A lady named Eve Astrid Andersson has a page of her website dedicated to π. The only trivia question that PG understood was the first one…1. What is the formal definition of pi? …the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter // 3.14159 // the radius of a unit circle // the surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7 // a delicious dessert, especially if it contains cherries.
There is the football cheer from M.I.T. ” Cosine, secant, tangent, sine 3.14159 // Integral, radical, u dv, slipstick, slide rule, MIT!”
In 1998 a movie titled π was released. It caused brain damage in 3.14% of those who saw it. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that 1998 = 666 x 3.
π has been calculated to over five million digits. The second part of this feature are a few of those numbers. There are 82 characters in each line. This feature shows π extended to 10,165 digits. This is .02% of five million. The pictures today are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”. This is a repost.

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Truman Capote was a phenomenon of the TV talk show era. If he hadn’t existed, someone would have had to invent him. He was known as much for his sissy voice as his writing. Becoming famous in the late forties for “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, he worked on a screenplay for “Beat the Devil”. When he met the men accused of killing the Clutter family in Kansas, he impressed one by telling him he worked on a movie with Humphrey Bogart. These chats led to the book “In Cold Blood”, which was probably his biggest triumph. He also wrote “Breakfast at Tiffanys”, which became a movie starring Audrey Hepburn.
He was on the Dick Cavett Show the same night as Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. After Maddox got offended and walked off the show, Mr.Capote remembered the time he ate at Maddox’s Pickrick restaurant. “All I can say is that it wasn’t finger licking good”.
Mr. Capote was the darling of certain New York socialites. They unwisely told him some stories about their lives. In 1975 Esquire magazine published “La Côte Basque 1965”. It was a chapter from “Answered Prayers”, the book he received a large advance for and took his time writing. ( It was finally published three years after his death) .The chapter published told some sordid tales about his jet set friends, who immediately ostracized him. It was a stepping stone on his road to ruin.
One chapter of “Answered Prayers” involves a dinner party in New York. Three of the guests were Dorothy Parker, Tallulah Bankhead, and Montgomery Clift. The evening never got past the cocktail hour, much to the distress of the hostess. At one point, Miss Parker was tenderly touching the face of Mr. Clift. She purred “He’s so beautiful,sensitive. So finely made. The most beautiful young man I have ever seen. What a pity he’s a cocksucker. Oh Oh, dear, have I said something wrong. I mean, he is a cocksucker, isn’t he Tallulah? Miss Bankhead replied ” Well d-d-darling, I r-r-really wouldn’t know. He’s never sucked my cock.”
In the spring of 1976, Mr. Capote gave a speech at the University of Georgia. At the time, there was a comic strip called “Don Q”, which has long been forgotten. It showed people in medieval clothes making comments on current affairs. On the day of the speech, the comic featured two characters. One was Richard Nixon. The other was as lisping little man, apparently based on Truman Capote.
The scene that evening was magic. The lecture was given on the steps of Memorial Hall, with the audience in the quadrangle in front of Reed Hall. Mr. Capote’s contract specified a pink spotlight, and a wicker chair behind the podium. Mr. Capote spoke for a while, and read a section out of “A Christmas Memory”. After a break, he returned to answer questions. The questions were written on file cards, and read by a student. The last one, and the one the reader said best typified the attitude of the evening, was ” What does Johnny Carson look like in person?”
After this, Mr. Capote asked for questions from the crowd. PG raised my hand, and Mr. Capote pointed to him. “Mr. Capote, did you see the comic strip Don Q this morning?” “No, what was it about?” ” It was about you, and Richard Nixon” “I don’t know who Don Q is, and I am beginning to not know who Richard Nixon is.”
Mr. Capote went downhill from this point on. He did a series of profiles for “Interview” magazine, which formed the basis of his last book ” Music for Chameleons”. His drinking and drug taking, always a problem, got worse. He became an embarrassment to those who once flocked to his side.
Truman Capote died in 1984.

Whenever you discuss Jack Kerouac, there is a quote by Truman Capote that gets mentioned. “That’s not writing, that’s typing”. PG thought a trip to Google city would help to show a bit of context on that quote. The first page of results, only, rule will be enforced here. The context of the original remains a mystery. ( Hey, maybe someone else made it up, and said that Capote said it. The ladies who lunch are not that clever, but Capote had big ears.)
There is a review of Going Rogue with the title, “That’s not writing, that’s someone else typing”. The nit picker has the audacity to say that the P lady gave a ghostwriter some tapes, and went off to hunt endangered species. A commenter observes “at some point in her book tour, someone will ask her a question that she won’t be able to answer because she won’t be familiar with what’s in her own book.” This post advertises downloading audio books, and copping grant money.
The Chicago Reader advertises teeth whitening chemicals with the post “That’s Not Writing, It’s Typing” It seems that someone is trashing today’s internet generation, with it’s tweets and blogs that say nothing, by comparing them to the product of Jack Kerouac. The money quote: “Kerouac survives because he (allegedly) wrote great works; the insufferable logorrhea the Beats inspired biodegrades in niche bookstores because, sensibly, nobody reads it. The Web makes things worse only in the sense that it democratically preserves the crap alongside the genius. Even more so than libraries!”
You probably know what is coming next. Yes, there is a blog titled That’s Not Writing, That’s Typing . It is written in Australia, and last had a post in 2007. The next to last post was about a trip to Dubai, and has a picture of a large hookah.
The results are a bit better at Writingortyping . It has been updated in 2011, and the lady knows how to write. Here is an example: “Overheard at our house, French steampunk edition… September 30, 2010 By Jill… Me: “So remember that trailer of that French steampunk film I showed you earlier this year?” John: “Yeah – I think so.” Me: “Well, apparently it was only in theatres on limited release and isn’t on DVD in the States at all.” John: “So, New York and L.A. basically.” Me: “Yeah probably.” John: “And Northern Maine.”
There are two sites for Truman Capote quotes They do not provide any more information about this quote, other than to repeat it. Mr. Capote was a clever man, who would be a challenge for Mr. Kerouac in a drinking contest. Mr. Capote also said “Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.” Brainy quotes sells digital speed plans and blackberries. There are links to quotes from “your favorite authors”, including Marilyn Monroe, Buddha, and Muhammad Ali.
The top result for *the phrase* is perhaps the most true to the style of Mr. Kerouac. It was written 27 days before 911 by Jonah Goldberg, of all people. He is trying to make it to a wedding, where he will play the underrated role of groom. He wants to get his dress shoes before he leaves town, because asking for “black loafers” in a Montana truck stop might lead to unexpected adventure. Being a thoughtful conservative, he makes the case that government intervention makes poor people poorer. The piece is written in a deadline driven frenzy, with jokes about black loafers and Truman Capote. The header ad is for Grove City College, and the Wall Street Journal.
Part two of this feature is a repost Pictures are from The Library of Congress

I’m boutaa cop a 5 = I am going to illegally obtain a small amount of marajuana. // He stay cappin = He has the tendency to stretch the truth // “I’m out chea husltlin” = I need a real job. // give me about 15 minutes = I will be ready in the next hour in a half // “When we gon chill?” = “When would you like to have sexual intercourse with me?” // “You straight bruh? ” = “Are you ok my friend?” OR “You looking to buy any drugs?” // “I’m an entrepreneur.” = “I sell many types of illegal and prescription drugs.” //She Thirsty , = She secretly wants me but is scared to say it . // “U Got Me?” = will you cover my expenses with no plans of reimbursement? // Hol up biitch its fina go down= please hold my purse,earrings n cheap weave while i attempt to assault this individual // where the hoes at?= where are the young ladies with no morals, goals, or standards? // baldheaded hoe = a female who demonstrates a lack of length in hair, resulting in her ponytail not having any hangtime // You not bout that life = You & I know that you would not partake in that situation due to your prior behavior & actions // You doin da most= Please calm your nerves down , you current behavior doesn’t quite match the person who you really are.. // “WEEEEHHHHHSSSS” =i live on the western part of my county // Bruh, Hood, Kid, Buddy = Friend, Person I’m Talking To At The Moment // Scrap Bout It Den! = Instead Of Talking Our Problems Like Civilized Citizens, Lets Fight About It To Raise Our Hood Stats. // Whats The Moves Bruh ? = What Do You Have Plan Today ? // “who did your hair?!” = Your weave looks terrible! // Shawty Got The Cake =That Female Has A Overtly Decent Size Gluteous Maximus // Wolley World=Walmart // we got that illegal cable = i cant afford to pay my bill so i steal my neighbors cable // trap life= severe dangerous employment opportunity where freedom and life is put at risk // Is yo mama at home? = If you mother isn’t at w/ you at home I’d like to come over & particpate in sexual activity w/ you // wuts poppin= i am a member of the gang know as blood and if you are from an apposing gang lets duel to the death // Don’t do me = C’mon don’t engage me in foolishness. // I’m bouta be SmackedHeem’ = I’m about to go participate in a drug related activity and be on “Cloud 9”. // “Come on moe my tracks is itching.” = the hair that is not mine currently is bothering me and I need to scratch it. // “Obama” = I can eat this whole bag of chips Obama self. // “Where Duh tree at?” = do you know where we can possibly get an illicit item known as marijuana? // party in the ghetto= we go to a rich catholic school and were going to the student neighborhood to drink too much // Caint turn a hoe to a house wife = She likes to sleep with numerous people. She will not be a wise choice for a wife. // ima fool wit it= im extremely good at doin summ // its hard out here-the economic and social situation I am in is very difficult to handle // When a Ghetto Fabulous homeskillet takes her hoop earings out = She’s about to go ham and she’s not playing around // lemme borrow that= yu know im never gonna return this right?? // “That Lotus Flower Just Ain’t Right” = That Hoe Pussy Stank // “Snow”= not the weather; referring to hard drugs // “bih you know you going” = we’re not calling you a hoe but you do settle for whatever or whoever comes your way // I got racks = I still live with my mom but instead of saving to move out I buy meaningless objects to impress my friends // “I’m getting thick.”= I’ve been eating foods that will give me more celluite in my hips/ thighs/ butt ect… // For shizzle ma nizzle = Sure, my African friend // Twerk = to partake in moving the body in a sexually suggestive twisting fashion / “snakes is everywhere”= people who can’t be trusted are heavily populated // ” i put this on my mama”= the next words that comes out my mouth is obviously the truth // Translations are borrowed from twitter // Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” // Selah

Have you ever wondered why your ancestors owned other human beings? How can you justify something this cruel? In an NPR interview to promote a new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart has an answer.
It was economics. “But I think we think of it differently when we realize that the value of slave property, some $4 billion, enormous amount of money in 1861, represented actually more money than the value of all of the industry and all of the railroads in the entire United States combined. So for Southern planters to simply one day liberate all of that property would have been like asking people today to simply overnight give up their stock portfolios, give up their IRAs.”
Mr. Goodheart compares it to the situation today with fossil fuels. “many of us recognize that in burning fossil fuels we’re doing something terrible for the planet, we’re doing something terrible for future generations. And yet in order to give this up would mean sort of unraveling so much of the fabric of our daily lives, sacrificing so much, becoming these sort of radical eccentrics riding bicycles everywhere, that we continue somewhat guiltily to participate in the system. And that’s something that I use as a comparison to slavery, that many Americans in the North, and even I believe sort of secretly in the South, felt a sense of guilt, felt a sense of shame, that knew that the slave system was wrong but were simply addicted to slavery and couldn’t give it up. “
When the economic pressure is there, people will find a way to justify their actions. Slavery was justified in a number of ways. Today, there are people who deny the ill effects of using fossil fuels, and they have an eager audience. The payback for the environmental horror is in the future. This is similar to the way people today are paying … with racial turmoil … for slavery.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.

so where’s the food ? // you gon learn TONIGHT! // Practice on Somebody else // I’ma Let You Finish… // ET wanna go home? // Gotta tweet bout this // Hand me the lotion. // so whatchu boutta do??? // I Need A Blunt. // lock it behind u! // you want some juice?” // You’ve Just Been Unfollowed!!! // “your bandmate was better” // that’s all you’ve got // Pass me my phone. // ” am I being punked ” // was that really it ? // well that was disturbing.. // “I demand a refund!” // i took your virginity? // you have to go // That cant happen again // so where’s my clothes ? // you need cab fare? // Time to go home… // add me on myspace // There is the Door. // Can you leave now? // “Get your clothes. LEAVE” // I wasn’t high enough. // “I cheated for this ?!” // “Hey, U MAD BRO?” // Soooo When You Leaving??? // “The Cabs are Heeree” // Hey It’s Been Real // how you gettin home // blocked reported as spam // I should have masturbated. // watchu bout to do // “this did NOT happen” // WHERE YO GRANDMA AT” // I cheated for this // please delete my number // ..better not tell anyone // yea them feelings….Gone // I Didnt Learn 2day // i didn’t feel anything! // you sure you done?? // what time u gettin picked up ? // delete my number please // ight , time to go ! // im going to bed // lose my number hoe ..// ummm that was it? // you can go now // im gonna please myself // i ddnt evn finish // Where my keys at? // that shitt was terrible ! // my grandma just died” // it didn’t stay wet // What’s your name again? // you took remedial classes? // don’t you got curfew ? // make me a sandwich // wait, your cross eyed? // Poppers make me sick! // “what time is it” ? // “u cant be serious”// better luck next time // I need more chicken // this my first time” you must say that a lot // make me a sammich. // it styll aint official.. // is McDonalds still open? // your wig smelled better // what yu finna do? // let’s just be friends // see you later (insert wrong name here) // I wasted my transfer // next time… paper bag // dont miss your bus // No Wonder You’re Single. // Blame it on twitter

This story keeps getting better. Last October, BHO announced he was sending 100 American “advisers” to Central Africa. They were going to aid in the search for Joseph Kony. This decision was cheered in a currently viral video.
On October 14, 2011, the EIB WEB PAGE DISGRONIFIER was published at the internet home of The Rush Limbaugh Show.. The headline was “Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians”. (BTW, Kenya does share a border with Uganda.) In the transcript, we see “So that’s a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and… no, I’m not kidding.” The dittoheads launched a twitter offensive, braving the disdain of the liberal media.
“#Obama sending troops to kill christians in africa!”
“Shorter Obama: Troops will be in Uganda until the Christians are dead or converted.”
“Rush; from @jaketapper Obama sending troops to kill Christians protecting themselves from Muslim genocide in Sudan”
“Obama sends our troops to kill Christian militia in Uganda in support of murderous Muslim tyrannical regime, also killing Egypt Christians”
“#Rush Obama sends 100 US troops to take out Lords Resistance Army (Christians) in Uganda fighting agst muslims.”
HT to Little Green Footballs. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Media Matters has an audio file of the broadcast.

The Kony 2012 video is a slick piece of work. It pulls at the heartstrings, and has motivated many people into action. Some look at this emotional outpouring, and wonder, what is the catch?
There is little doubt that Joseph Kony is not a nice man. (He also has a name that is easy for Americans to pronounce. Most of the rest of the players here have jawbreaker names. Americans love to hate marquee bad guys, and having a simple name helps.) The people he is fighting (and who would benefit from American intervention) are little better, and may be worse. There is also doubt as to the benefit of arresting one man. The Palestinians did not give up their struggle when Yassir Arafat died.
The world is full of suffering. The children of Gaza can tell a few stories. The Democratic Republic of Congo has been through hell since the Belgians decided they wanted an empire. The DRC (a possible refuge today for Mr. Kony) was the scene of what some call the African World War. “The war was a conflict which, according to a report released in January by the International Rescue Committee relief organization, killed an estimated 5.4 million people between August 1998 and April 2007— many from health-related concerns caused by the social and economic disruption of the ongoing conflict.”
The war began as a rebellion against the kleptocracy of Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga. “In late 1996, using a rebellion by the Banyamulenge as cover, an umbrella group of Congolese rebel factions calling themselves the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) launched an insurgency to oust Mobutu with extensive Rwandan and Ugandan backing. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni were both eager to see the duplicitous Mobutu fall so that they might pursue their own interests in Congo—a country of vast mineral wealth.
With longtime rebel leader Laurent-Désiré Kabila at the helm, the AFDL and their foreign patrons made quick progress across Congo’s vast interior, marching westward to the capital, Kinshasa, with tacit approval provided by the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton, still stung by its failure to do anything to halt the Rwandan genocide two years earlier.”
5.4 million people is a lot. While this conflict was raging, attention in America was focused on Monica Lewinsky, the twin towers, and keeping “next Hitler” Saddam Hussein from getting weapons of mass destruction. (In the video, Mr. Kony is compared to Hitler.) Considering how well our attempts at regime change worked in Iraq, we might have made the right move in staying out of the DRC.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is the opponent of Joseph Kony, and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Mr. Museveni has largely driven Mr. Kony out of Uganda. There has been a lot of collateral damage, which can be expected to increase with more western intervention.
Getting back to the video, it is not a calm discussion of the facts. It is a fund raising plea. It is widely reported now that 32% of the money raised here goes to actual relief efforts. They did not scrimp on the production of the video.
One thing the video does not mention is that Jason Russell, the narrator, is an aggressive Jesus Worshiper. So is Joseph Kony. Their methods of evangelizing are different.
Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”.