Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
It was Israel, with US backing, that sabotaged the negotiations with an act of aggression against Iran. Therefore, any call for diplomacy that puts the onus on Iran is simply an endorsement of continued Israeli-US aggression. In short, Orwellian:
Wendell Berry, writing 40 years ago: “Computer thought is exactly the sort that Yeats warned us against; it is made possible by the assumption that thought occurs ‘in the mind alone’ and that the mind, therefore, is an excerptable and isolatable human function,
Modern movies are a nightmare of living horror, a bleak hollow-brained landscape of smoothing AI filters and crusty gray patinas. Everything has been lost, all knowledge of good design, every artistic rule. Build me a time capsule of the nineties (00's/10's for tv) and release me
In the last 4 years, American food prices have gone up by 22%. Like I'm sorry, but running a campaign on the threat to democracy when people are unable to afford staple groceries was completely bonkers.
@Jonathan_K_Cook There's a terrible irony that the people who no longer watch the news saw this result coming from a mile away and the people who still watch the news are currently sitting stunned.
If you want to know what corn syrup tastes like, wait a year, then next Halloween eat something like an almond joy. You will taste corn syrup. As it "melts" it will create a mouthful of disgusting oily syrup. The texture of it will even overpower the sugar.
Revolution now.
Yeah, anyone who has opinions on Dylan's voice should try singing one of his songs. Seriously. Just try. Try to hold the long note on "Moonshiner", try getting all the words in on Po' Boy, try hitting all the notes on North Country Blues. Guy has timing, breath control and range.
I like Dylan's voice but acknowledge it's an acquired taste. But he's a good *singer* even if he doesn't have a good voice and is a genius at using his voice to further whatever song he's singing. This is what happens when someone with no sense of phrasing tries to sing Dylan: