Showing posts with label Paradise Lost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paradise Lost. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Every Ride Must End

Sally Ride, RIP In the days before Physica was more than a Puta, and this nation more than a macabre joke, I remember Sally Ride on the same crew as was Feynman digging mercilessly through all the bureaucratic crap to get at what happened to Challenger. Just a memory now.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Atlantis

Interesting, and coincidentally pertinent

"but at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being blocked up by the shoal mud which the island created as it settled down." The Timaeus, Plato.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

April 1 is Every Day on Planet Pepe......Right?

The professor can't be serious....right?
This country isn't led by the certifiably insane.....right?

Da Kool Red Drink

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Rosa Ortiz Takes Another Gig

That Ortiz gal gets all the plum inside jobs. Love this line:

"In the next days Senora Coakley and her campaign peoples are very excited to prepare for El Presidente and for to make the attack ads. It is very busy in the house and I am try to make sure there are enough ashtrays for El Presidente, but the attack ad people keep to ask me, "Rosa! How do you spell Massachusettes?"

So that is what happened.

Monday, July 13, 2009

HuffPo comment from beyond the pale

KIM JONG II - OF FAILED DREAMS, HOPES, IDEALISM, STUBBORNESS AND SELF RELIANCE.

I read a lot about Fidel Castro, Kim Jong, Manuel Zelaya, Hugo Chavez, even Che Guevara - the latter is one of my favorite. What is it about these men that make them stand against all odds - it's refusal to bow down to Imperialistic Nations ?

Curiosity is my middle name.

There is something common about this men - early in their lives they were truly idealistic, dreamers, stubborn and, surprisingly, champion of the poor - yes, even Castro and Jong, very educated, and Leftist-Marxist Political Orientation shaped their idealism and dream.

During reciprocity week, while Jr in College, I read for the first time Jong Economic Policies, protected copies at Princeton Library, and 3 more at Wharton School of Economics. Jong has a deep understanding of Politics and Economics. He had at least 7 published Economic Reforms. Here is a biography of Jong.

Library

While he is viewed by outsiders as a cruel leader, there was a time, at age 10, when I first read his biography, and made me wonder, like Che Guervarra in a strange way, their childhood somehow met at a cross road. Both made impression to a 10-year-old girl who should have been playing jacks.

KIM JONG II - OF FAILED DREAMS, HOPES, IDEALISM, STUBBORNESS AND SELF RELIANCE 2/2

I am probably one of a billion who do not wish him ill. Nor I am here to defend him. During this difficult period in his life, I sincerely hope he makes peace with himself, and revive his young idealism, hopes and dreams for North Korea and his people - to realize his economic objectives: self reliance, prosperity, freedom, and once again a part of all Nations.

Releasing Laura Ling and Euna Lee as peace offerings, on humanitarian and diplomatic grounds would be a good tiding for the tired worn out leader - it's not impossible for one facing an Olympian feat of a disease.

To Jong II and the North Korean people - it's time to join the world.

Friday, May 01, 2009

In Da Garden of Eden, Pepe...

....wins da Bronze Bowl in da Gopelki Tepe, Pepe...
Sacre Bleu.

"Archaeological evidence suggests that victims were killed in huge death pits, children were buried alive in jars, others roasted in vast bronze bowls. "

Paradise was Hieronymous Bosch ?