Wow. this was really really frank. Pass Healthcare Reform NOW!!!!
Harry Gives ‘Em Hell
Wow. Harry Reid’s letter to Mitch McConnell.
As you know, the vast majority of bills developed through reconciliation were passed by Republican Congresses and signed into law by Republican Presidents – including President Bush’s massive, budget-busting tax breaks for multi-millionaires. Given this history, one might conclude that Republicans believe a majority vote is sufficient to increase the deficit and benefit the super-rich, but not to reduce the deficit and benefit the middle class. Alternatively, perhaps Republicans believe a majority vote is appropriate only when Republicans are in the majority. Either way, we disagree.
As Ezra says, this can be summed up as: Reconcile this.
Express Your Soul
I believe two truths to be self-evident:
We have a soul.
That soul needs to be expressed.
And before we die, # 2 needs to be taken care of.
Yes, it’s easier to pretend that #1 & #2 don’t matter, that they’re both untrue, that somehow status and “stuff” will fill the void.
It’s a very expensive mistake to make… I’m very lucky, most of my readers and customers don’t make this mistake very often.
1. He Says: “We should hang out sometime.”
He Means: “I’m afraid you’ll say ‘no’ if I ask you out.”
Of course, actions speak louder than words. Find out if he’s hitting on you by decoding his body language.
8. He Says: “That’s not what I meant.”
He Means: “That’s totally what I meant, but now that I see you’re mad, I wish I hadn’t said it out loud.”
9. He Says: “It’s fine.”
He Means: “It’s not actually fine, but I’m in no mood to discuss it.”
from here http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-introverts-corner/201003/the-solo-team-player ::
The take-home I’m working towards here is more of a take-to-work, since it can apply to succeeding in our jobs In our culture, we are often exhorted to be a “team player”–and that often implies face-to-face collaboration. But being a team player can mean different things for different people. If we require solitude to reach flow, and I think we do, then we are justified in asserting our need for enough space to formulate our ideas and therefore contribute most effectively to the team’s common goals.
A number of people here have commented on how much they hate team-building exercises. Perhaps our extroverted culture has a too-narrow definition of what working as a team means. What would a team-building exercise look like that takes into account the needs and strengths of both extroverts and introverts?
I so so so so so so so so so so so LOVE this song.
Jon Brion writes songs so well suited to the music in a lyrical sense primarily but the song is really a song. not a tune with slapped on lyrics, or poetry pretending to be a song.
Makes one wonder how jon brion composes. does he do it while or after watching a film. does the words come first?
I so love this verse. It’s sooo true. I feel that the reason I liked Punch Drunk Love sooo much is that I see myself in Adam Sandler’s character.
You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard
Here We Go
You’ve gotta hope that there’s someone for you
As strange as you are
Who can cope with the things that you do
Without trying too hard
Because you can bend the truth
Until it’s suiting you
These things that you’re wrapping all around you
You never know what they will amount to
And your life is just going on without you
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go
You’ve gotta know that there’s more to this world
Than what you have seen
Because we all have a limited view
Of what we can be
As we move along with our blinders on
Each one of us feels a little stranded
And you can’t explain or understand it
Each one of us on a different planet
And amidst all the to and fro
Someone can say hello
Here we go
The feeling that someone really gets you
It’s something that no one should object to
It could happen today
So I suggest you skip your habit of laying low
It’s the end of the things you know
Here we go
Because someone can say “Hello,
You old so and so, here we go”
The woman who was apparently selectively hard to get, i.e. easy for you but hard for everyone else was the runaway winner for the men. Not only that but men thought the selectively hard to get woman would have all the advantages of the easy to get woman with none of the drawbacks of the hard to get woman. They thought she would be popular, warm and easygoing, but not demanding and difficult.
via Does Playing Hard to Get Work? | PsyBlog.
Haven’t seen a great performance from Robert De Niro in a long time. Hope he can make something of this role!
Robert De Niro has signed to play legendary football coach Vince Lombardi in ESPN Films’ big screen feature Lombardi. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, Benjamin Button, The Insider) penned the script. The National Football League is involved in the project, which means we probably won’ see anything controversial in the movie (steroids, alcohol).
I don’t know a lot about football, but looking at photos of Lombardi, you can certainly see how De Niro would be cast in the role. Risky Business says the plan is to release the film between the AFC and NFC conference championship games and the Super Bowl in 2012. The film will focus on Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers years, although ESPN acquired the entire life rights to Lombardi’s story from his estate, as well as the rights to Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap’s book Instant Replay.
via Robert De Niro Cast as Vince Lombardi | /Film.
Capone goes in over his head with the marvelously silly HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
Sometimes you admire a comedy because of its subtle wit and cleverness, because it keeps a sustained smile on your face that lasts the duration of the film. Other times, you fall head over heals for a comedy because it is balls-out the perfect combination of stupidity and intelligence, with a healthy serving of charm thrown in and a dash of the grotesque. Welcome to HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, folks, a movie that almost dares you not to giggle your way into a frothy stupor. What put this film over the top for me was its complete and utter disregard not only for conventional logic and sensibility, but the film actually bothers to set up its own time-space continuum rules and then breaks them with a wanton disregard for the Butterfly Effect. On the plus side, TIME COP's essential rule about the same person from two different times occupying the same space is cited and dealt with quite effectively. But for God's sake, this isn't a movie about science; it's about partying '80s style, and who better to do that with than John Cusack?
via Capone goes in over his head with the marvelously silly HOT TUB TIME MACHINE!!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news..
I found this an excellent read. I seem to periodically ask myself this question. How do you live your life and say at the end I wouldn’t have changed a thing. In a way this is the goal I’ve been crawling towards.
When I was about 29 years old I got a spiritual “assignment” on an Easter morning in the old city of Jerusalem. According to this assignment my job was to live as if I had only 6 months left to live. I was in perfect health and in the middle of a ten-year round the world trip, so this interruption was unexpected and strange. I’ve told the full story of that curious mission on the very first episode of This American Life, the public radio storytelling hit, 10 years ago, so I won’t go into further detail because you can hear my account on this streaming audio file from the NPR site.
The short version is that what I decided to do in my last 6 months surprised me, and that living with only 180 days in front of me turned out to be harder than I thought. But I did live with a very conscious countdown toward the final day; I remember that last day very well.
via Conceptual Trends and Current Topics.
