Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- DIRECT eNewsletter for Democrats
- Santa Claus Isn't Real
- Nothing More | Narrative Magazine
SITTING ON THE COUCH this morning with my book and coffee, I looked up, thinking there wasn’t anything but this; that after this there’s nothing; that you’re taken out of your life, which might be good or bad, and the only meaning now is what’s left behind, fragmentary, mosaiclike, often unreadable or indecipherable, with those who must try to adjust or, themselves, I guess, perish, as my grandfather did many, many years ago of a ruptured gut at his kitchen table nine months after his wife died, at sixty-three, of liver cancer in their bedroom in the back of the house, and the window was open, and I could feel the breeze.
- Respectful Insolence: The 100th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle: The trouble with Orac
- Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Owners' Manual | Mark Fiore's Animated Cartoon Site
- FT.com - The first IT-literate president(tip to David)
- Pot joins the fight against Alzheimer's, memory loss: Scientific American Blog
- Healer dies after letting cut foot rot | Metro.co.uk
- Girded Loins—By Wyatt Mason (Harper's Magazine)
Comments
I like the statement
"One thing is clear, anything that can be done to solve the problem and counteract the pseudoscientific claims of well-meaning but misguided believers long before it gets to this stage has to be a Good Thing."
from:
http://thinking-is-dangerous.blogspot.com/2008/11/failed-by-complementary-medicine-tragic.html
Walter Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz" ranks alongside other Science Fiction novels of my early years, Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, any number of works by Kilgore Trout (usually in his alter ego of Kurt Vonnegut), Ray Bradbury etc etc. Mason was indeed lucky to find such a book by chance - I was recommended to read it by a friend with whom I still have those 'half sentence' conversations of shared experiences nearly 50 years after the events. If you can find a copy, please give it a try - it may still be crazy after all these years.
Just in case it becomes important - Yes I know that Kilgore Trout wasn't actually Kurt Vonnegut, but try reading 'Venus on the Halfshell' - it does feel like KV.
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