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POPS"Politics and the English Language" - George Orwell Geroge Orwell on the art of writing clear English and how the language is abused at the hands of politics. One of Orwell's most famous essays and still as relevant as ever. Advice from the author: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. Never use the passive where you can use the active. 5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. 6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. These rules sound elementary, and so they are, but they demand a deep change of attitude in anyone who has grown used to writing in the style now fashionable.
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POPSEvolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain Since witnesses first reported the unexplained marking—which appears to resemble a 19th-century male figure with a high forehead and large beard—this normally quiet town has become a hotbed of biological zealotry. Thousands of pilgrims from as far away as Berkeley's paleoanthropology department have flocked to the site to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green stain.
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POPSHolocaust Industry Alive and Well, Again and Again Haaretz Talkback: THE MILKING OF GERMANY SEEM TO BE GOING FOR EVER! This is getting scandalous and abusive. Why not the third generation and even the fourth? Look at the legacy of slavery on succeeding generations of African Americans. I should not want there dirty money. Read the book of Rudolf Höss " Commandant of Auschwitz" and you understand that nothing,NOTHING can prepair what they have done without any culpability. As a child of Holocaust survivor I am totally against it. GOOD! GIVE THE THE PALS RIGHT OF RETURN TOO! In socio-psychological terms, is there not a danger that such an agenda actually keeps the traumatic scars forever open, refusing to let them heal? Who say, Norman G. Finkelstein is wrong? In every country are million of people suffer from trauma, anxiety and depression. Million take tranquilizers every day and do not know about holocaust.
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POPSCan We Live Without "Made In China"? I remember way back, when France conducted extensive nuclear testing at the Mururoa Atoll , we boycotted buying anything French. That was hard enough, but try avoiding "Made in China". It's practically impossible!
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POPSTasty tasty electronics Some of the folks I collaborate with at NYCResistor have been making some awesome electronic inspired pastries. We had cupcakes the other day and now there was a full sized cake. Awesome!
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POPSWar on Witches The usual suspects ... "A year ago, the commission for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice (the religious police) in the Saudi city of Taif established a special department to combat witchcraft. So far, it has arrested 25 people - 24 of whom, interestingly, are non-Saudis."
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POPSPoets of the Great War Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? -- Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, -- The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. September-October 1917 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
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POPSWhat Happens When You Don't Build Power Plants But Britain will be green, green, green. Of course lots of that will be because people will have to start crapping in their backyards - but think of the wonderful flowers that will grow. And the huge increase in green jobs (making candles, digging up peat to burn for heat, etc.) will more than offset the loss caused by going back to 19th century technology.
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POPSThere were two royal children (German volkslied) She took him into her arms And kissed his lips so red Oh lips could you only speak So my young heart could be healed So my young heart could be healed. She wrapped her coat around her and jumped into the lake so green Good night my father and mother Never shall you see me again Never shall you see me again. The bells were tolling There was sorrow and pain for there lay two kings-children but both were oh so dead but both were oh so dead. Originalversion Audio (instrumental) Immer wieder in Tränen aufgelöst: Johanna *heul*
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