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POPSA Bird Without Wings...Damian McGinty A Bird Without Wings Chorus: Like a bird without wings That longs to be flying, Like a motherless child Left lonely and crying. Like a song without words, Like a world without music, I wouldn't know what to do I'd be lost without you Watchin' over me. George sings harmonies here Verse 1: I get so lonely, when you're away I count every moment, I wait every day, Until you're home again And hug me so tight That's when I know Everything is alright. Chorus: Like a bird without wings That longs to be flying, Like a motherless child Left lonely and crying. Like a song without words Like a world without music, I wouldn't know what to do I'd be lost without you Watchin' over me. George sings harmonies here Verse 2: You're my guardian angel My light and my guide Your hand on my shoulder And you by my side. You make everything beautiful, You make me complete. Everything in my world I lay at your feet.. Bridge: Like a church with no
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POPSThe Guardian Books Podcast: Aleksandar Hemon and Anthea Bell on European literature in translation Reading list Best European Fiction 2010 edited by Aleksandar Hemon (Dalkey Archive) The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon (Picador) Nowhere Man, by Aleksandar Hemon (Picador) Austerlitz by WG Sebald (Penguin) The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press) Burning Secret, by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press) How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic (Grove) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, all by Stieg Larsson (MacLehose) Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (Quercus) The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery (Gallic Books)
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POPSTheologians asked "How Many Angels Can Dance On The Head Of A Penis?" Letters have been sent to various Angel groups in an effort to enlist volunteers in order to head-up the investigation for the study group. Charlie's Angels, the Blue Angels, the New York's Guardian Angels, and the California Angels baseball team have all expressed an interest in furthering the study. A willing 98 year old, Anges Angel of Horse Feathers, Arkansas, a self-professed virgin, was the first to mail in her application and was first to be selected. At last report she was busy knitting a new pair of slippers to make the dancing easier.
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POPSAn odious view, indeed. But I'm with Pope Benedict on this one | Simon Jenkins,The Guardian When reading the hoohah that the media have made over the comments of Pope Benedict I was initially highly unimpressed that our country will be paying a hefty fortune for the 'benefit' of having his presence on our heathen soil. As I read further, however, I found myself deeply disturbed by a nagging feeling that he may be right. I tried to push it away and settle in with all the other people who want to sign petitions and stamp their collective feet in protest but I just didn't feel comfortable with it at all. I later found this article. Simon Jenkins in his article pretty much reflects all that I could not quite articulate myself about this whole unpleasant debacle.
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POPSKerala makes 'an excellent family holiday' People who want an exotic holiday that will occupy the children as well as themselves could do worse than booking flights to India and travelling on to Kerala, according to one travel journalist and mother.
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POPSCryonics - Documentary This certainly brings up a few questions for me. We are already living longer (mostly thanks to medical intervention), though, we have not changed our attitudes to procreation and how necessary it actually is to keep the species surviving - hence the over population issue. This adds fuel to that particular fire - if we are consciously choosing to live longer (and now using technologies like cryonics) don't we really need to re-look at the program of procreation that currently exists the world over (for most people anyway)???
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POPSDon't blame Paul Verryn The Mail & Guardian correctly identifies the cause of the problems at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg
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POPSBastards: Iran Still Holding Mothers Arrested For Mourning Their Murdered Children Meanwhile even Guardian columnists are declaring themselves less than sanguine about how the mullahs are trying protesters for being "Enemies Of God." No one's gone so far as to acknowledge the paper's years of dishonest pro-Iran defenses - nor are they inclined to talk about how conservatives have been slandered as warmongers for predicting exactly this - but at least there's a limit to the degree of theocratic fascism they'll defend. Maybe. Now for my own part, I would have stopped spinning pseudo-sophisticated "Iran is moderate" pretexts back when Ahmadinejad offered "documented proof" that America was conspiring to block the return of the Messiah. But I can see how the international left and their ilk might have thought he was just being funny. Mere Rhetoric.com http://bit.ly/89vIpr
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POPSChe Guevara Exposed: The Killer on the Lefties’ T-Shirts According to Freedom House, 500,000 Cubans have passed through Cuba’s prison systems, proportionally more than went through Stalin’s Gulag. And many of Che Guevara’s political prisoners qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Fidel and Che’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s. The figures for the Che/Castro murders and jailings do not come from any “biased” Cuban-exile source. They’re available from “The Black Book of Communism,” According to the “Black Book of Communism,” those firing-squad executions had reached 14,000 by the end of the ’60s, the equivalent, given the relative populations, of more than 3 million executions in the U.S. “I don’t need proof to execute a man,” snapped Che But Che Guevara, as his chief executioner, relished the slaughter.”
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POPSAnti-Americanism in seven easy steps # The U.S takes over. If this happens, it will be accused of “creating a military occupation under the guise of humanitarian aid” and “occupying” the country outright. (Apologies, my memory’s failing me. These criticisms have been aired already. The first quote’s from President Chavez of Venezuela. The second’s from Alain Joyandet, France’s “Co-operation Minister”.) # The U.S doesn’t take over. If this happens, it will be criticised for “not doing enough” - and isolationism. # So either way, the U.S loses. I’m not a fully signed-up member of the Stars-and-Stripes fan club. But there are times when I think: who’d be an American? Paul Goodman
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POPSBrown's Election 'Deliberate, Pre-Meditated Murder' of Health Care Reform My chat with Nicole Gelinas, part one Jan 14, 2010 financial regulatory reform | Nicole Gelinas I recent sent a few email questions to Nicole Gelinas, author of the phenomenal must-read, must-own After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington . Her answers were so thorough and valuable that I could not bring myself to cut them much. So I am running a question or two a day for the next several days. Enjoy! Reuters.com blogs: http://bit.ly/8ttMbn http://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis
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POPSAnti-Aging: How Fish Oil Can Help Preserve Youth In light of the fact that I am not a scientist or health expert, I will refrain from attempting to re-articulate the gist of this news story so as to make sure the facts are communicated accurately in the words of the very scientists who conducted the research. Too often, journalists take far too much liberty when reporting on scientific developments, with inaccuracy often resulting from the reporter (who is often ignorant to the facts surrounding the topic being reported on) attempting to paraphrase without checking with an expert to ensure accuracy prior to being published. For the sake of avoiding any such error on my behalf, the above quotations were taken directly from the actual article and are word-for-word citations straight from the source. In other words, the above snippets are the words of the scientists involved and/or the reporter(s) covering the story, and are not my own semantic illustrations.
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POPSAmerica's Third World: Pine Ridge, South Dakota "The police captain blames 90% of the reservation's problems on alcohol dependence. And according to the law, the reservation is supposed to be dry. The few options available to young people include joining a gang or the military or bootlegging. Youth suicide is on the rise. Tribe president Theresa Two Bulls is also contending with startlingly poor health for young and old reservation residents alike; half of the Oglala Sioux over 40 have diabetes and the infant mortality rate is three times the national average."
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POPSFennakadt a Pollner szűrőn Ez az oldal http://mediablog.hvg.hu/ az agyik szűr'm az internet infozuhatagában, életbentartója, @pollner (aka Pécsi Ferenc) és az autósújságírói múltam miatt, eszméletlen szellemeset alkotva, pollner szűr'ként tartom nyílván a www.szem.tv blogomon is. Most ezt találtam a rostán és megelégedéssel tölt el a téma, amelyhez a médiablogból jutottam el. A The Guardian online szerz'jének jóslata szerint a hagyományos újságírásnak befellegzett.
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