Hello Loyal Readers

As you can see, i have not had the chance to post as of late. The combination of trying to finish school and The Sonosopher leaves me little time. i'm going to take a break from the blog until the end of the semester. i might post something here and there, but definitely nothing consistently. Thanks for being interested in my blog enough to check it from time to time. Hopefully, i'll start posting more regularly after this semester.

- torben

The Way I See It

Dig it and dig it deep...

President Obama

New Year's Resolutions

1. "My only true religion is kindness." -Dalai Lama
2. Be a good husband.
3. Finish 'The Sonosopher'
4. Graduate college.
5. Read 1-2 books weekly.
6. Exercise regularly.
7. Become a force again.
8. Work harder than ever.
9. Travel.
10. Write.

**11. Make money from film.

Jon Stewart on Newspapers

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Final Edition Edition

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

$8333

Thanks, el.

Life Fragment - Memorial Day, 1986

An Open Letter to Barack Obama

By Alice Walker

Dear Brother Obama,

You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied our history. But seeing you deliver the torch so many others before you carried, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, only to be struck down before igniting the flame of justice and of law, is almost more than the heart can bear. And yet, this observation is not intended to burden you, for you are of a different time, and, indeed, because of all the relay runners before you, North America is a different place. It is really only to say: Well done. We knew, through all the generations, that you were with us, in us, the best of the spirit of Africa and of the Americas. Knowing this, that you would actually appear, someday, was part of our strength. Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about.

I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.

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Kenneth Patchen - I Feel Drunk All the Time

Jesus it's beautiful!

Great mother of big apples it is a pretty

World!

You're a bastard Mr. Death

And I wish you didn't have no look-in here.

I don't know how the rest of you feel,

But I feel drunk all the time

And I wish to hell we didn't have to die.

O you're a merry bastard Mr. Death

And I wish you didn't have no hand in this game

Because it's too damn beautiful for anybody to die.

Olbermann weighs in on Prop 8

If this does not make you think, i give up.

MLK

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."

Life Fragment - 2001

i drew this...

More on Prop 8

i snapped this photo in Provo. Click to enlarge. Click here for legal article regarding Proposition 8.

Another Photo:

Proposition 8

By Joe Vogel:
"In late 2002, as President George W. Bush began building his case for preemptive war in Iraq, a remarkable thing happened. In contrast to the general timidity of American churches in response to the conflict in Vietnam, leaders of faith were speaking out. Observed the Reverend Jim Wallis at the time:
 

Opposition to war with Iraq has come from a wide spectrum of the churches - Roman Catholic, Protestant denominations, Evangelical, Pentecostal, black churches, Orthodox. All of the statements, letters, and resolutions from church leaders and bodies take the threat posed by Saddam Hussein seriously, but they refuse war as the best response.

 

Importantly, these church leaders are not making their decision based on whether or not they approve of President George W. Bush - some do and some don't. Rather, they are doing so on the basis of Christian theology and moral teaching.

  One notable exception to this dissent: the Mormon Church. 
  The LDS Church's cautious official response to the war (one of the most consequential decisions in recent American history) and near-unconditional subsequent support for the Bush Administration (in 2005, Dick Cheney was awarded an honorary doctorate and invited as the commencement speaker at BYU, the Church's flagship institution), raise important questions about the Church's involvement in political affairs, particularly when an issue has moral/ethical implications. When should it speak out? When should it stay neutral? And how does it treat its members with minority views?
  Nearly six years and thousands of lost lives since the war began, Mormon authorities still haven't weighed in on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, or Guantanomo Bay. Neither have they directed semi-annual Conference addresses to the genocide in Sudan, human rights violations caused by multi-national corporations, or climate change that could have devastating effects on future generations. Instead, in the past few months they have decided to take action on a "moral issue" of a different sort: denying gay couples the constitutional right to get married in California."
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Vote Flipping Caught on Tape

Paranoia increasing. 

What the hell is wrong with people?

From citizen-times.com:

CULLOWHEE – A dead bear was found dumped this morning on the Western Carolina University campus, draped with a pair of Obama campaign signs, university police said.

Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police.

“It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” Johnson said.

University police called in N.C. Wildlife Resources officials to remove the body and help in the investigation. Bear season is currently under way in Western North Carolina.

“This is certainly unacceptable,” Johnson said. “Someone was wanting to draw attention to the election. If we find out who they are, we’ll make sure they’ll get some attention themselves.”

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Can he retain it?

from the Gallup poll.

Powell endorses Obama

It's a good thing racism ended with the civil rights movement...