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ual burden he advocated not decluttering though so much as simplicity not throwing things out so much as not acquiring them in the first place decluttering can be a step towards greater simplicity but only if having thrown off the ballast you resist accumulating more otherwise you re not really decluttering you re just keeping the decluttering industry in business your amygdala declutters information link via stef i could check the quote but there would be a cost without going to the source i note that wikiquotes has it as and the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it journals 1838 1859 after december 6 1845 yet more succinctly i note that it is a great art to saunter o april 26 1841 i must return to more saunter in my blogging for many years i was self appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though i never received one cent for it o after february 22 1846 thoreau was as we know an early blogger he merely lacked hellfire missiles he also notes in life without principle 1863 we do not live for idle amusement i would not run round a corner to see the world blow up i would at least saunter i m easily amused more information clutter to come addendum 9 36 a m good to be back on memeorandum addendum 10 17 a m longer and considerably more serious and detailed variant about afpak posted at obsidian wings links to and quotes from spencer ackerman david ignatius and bruce rolston as well as myself addendum 12 06 p m george carlin on stuff 4 12 2011 08 11 00 am permanent link main page tweet 3 comments sunday april 10 2011 pottery barn libya pt 2 anthony cordesman one man army or give peace a chance part 1 on amygdala in pottery barn libya part 1 or do you prefer obwi i began explaining the situation in libya now more and what america and nato should do the tactical day to day sway of battle does not matter save to those brutally slaughtered in it and suffering from it suffering greatly what matters are the choices america and europe make naturally joe lieberman and john mccain want bombs away all out regime change nothing makes john mccain happier back on the battlefield how the libya debate snapped john mccain out of his 2008 funk and into a fresh fight with obama john mccain has never met a country he wouldn t like to bomb mccain who insists on visiting iraq and afghanistan twice a year often favors a muscular approach to projecting u s military power but is wary of entanglements with no exit strategy the old aviator who had both arms repeatedly broken in a hanoi prison camp says that experience has also given me a sense of caution in light of our failure in vietnam while mccain opposed the u s military actions in lebanon and somalia he is sympathetic to humanitarian missions and would even consider sending troops to the war torn ivory coast if someone could tell me how we stop what s going on pressed on when the united states should intervene in other countries mccain sketches an expansive doctrine that turns on practicality american forces must be able to beneficially affect the situation and avoid an outcome which would be offensive to our fundamental principles whether it s 1 000 people slaughtered or 8 000 if there s a massacre or ethnic cleansing and we are able to prevent it i think the united states should act mccain bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb iran bombs away there will be other wars mccain we are all georgians now tough guy anthony cordesman naturally wants to fight unsurprisingly he used to be national security assistant to senator john mccain cordesman who has see previous links always been deeply wired into the militarist networks of the washington d c village of talking heads and millionaire journalism has a surprise widely quoted piece advocating we surprise go all in let s not read more 4 10 2011 06 02 00 pm permanent link main page tweet 0 comments pottery barn libya part 1 what is to be done colin powell famously said of iraq quoting tom friedman who got it wrong you are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people he told the president you will own all their hopes aspirations and problems you ll own it all privately powell and deputy secretary of state richard armitage called this the pottery barn rule you break it you own it does anyone want to buy libya and own it for the next decade that s what s on order that or negotiating a way out of this thing the libyan rebels are a mess april 3rd the rebel army s nominal leader abdul fattah younes a former interior minister and friend of col muammar el qaddafi whom many rebel leaders distrusted could offer little explanation for the recent military stumbles two people with knowledge of the meetings said making matters worse the men could hardly stand one another they included khalifa heftar a former general who returned recently from exile in the united states and appointed himself as the rebel field commander the movement s leaders said and omar el hariri a former political prisoner who occupied the largely ceremonial role of defense minister they behaved like children said fathi baja a political science professor who heads the rebel political committee little was accomplished in the meetings the participants said when they concluded late last week mr younes was still the head of the army and mr hariri remained as the defense minister only mr heftar who reportedly refused to work with mr younes was forced out on sunday though in a sign that divisions persisted mr heftar s son said his father was still an army leader on march 29th obama s press secretary jay carney told the press gaggle on af1 that in essence he didn t know who the hell these people are but let s hope for the best q one of nato s military leaders testified on the hill today that there had been signs of al qaeda seen amongst libyan rebels how does that affect the white house thinking on engaging with them mr carney well what i would say is that as you know we spend a lot of time looking at the opposition and now meeting with opposition leaders and the folks who are in london the people that and the leader that secretary clinton met in paris have made clear what their principles are and we believe that they re meritorious their principles i think they had a statement today that had some very good language in it that we support but that doesn t mean obviously that everyone who opposes moammar qaddafi i libya is someone whose ideals we can support but beyond that i don t have any detail about individual members of the opposition q does it concern you about how much you don t know about the opposition mr carney well what i would say is that we have met with opposition leaders and we re working with them but as the president said and as the opposition leaders who put out a statement today said it s up to them to decide who their leaders are going to be but we do know something of who they are right now as jason packer explains read more 4 10 2011 05 32 00 pm permanent link main page tweet 0 comments wednesday april 06 2011 hello goodbye you say goodbye i say go to hell glenn beck glenn beck is leaving fox news but not i m afraid leaving us alone fox news and mercury radio arts announce new agreement new york ny fox news and mercury radio arts glenn beck s production company are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the fox news channel as well as content for other platforms including fox news digital properties glenn intends to transition off of his daily program the third highest rated in all of cable news later this year speculation is of course rampant two of the options mr beck has contemplated according to people who have spoken about it with him are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel or an expansion of his subscription video service on the web reports this week that joel cheatwood a senior fox news executive would soon join mr beck s growing media company mercury radio arts were the latest indication that mr beck intended to leave fox a unit of the news corporation when his contract expired at the end of this year notably mr beck s company has been staffing up making web shows some of which have little or nothing to do with mr beck and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows he s not going away frankly this is part of the not that slow collapse of the whole tv network paradigm that the internet is forcing tv isn t going away as fast as traditional publishing which is going away much faster than the traditional music distribution business but it s circling the drain rapidly with streaming and direct deals for ipads and tablets and phones and all sorts of streaming below the worst of glenn beck but why he s not stupid about media laugh and weep read more 4 06 2011 12 03 00 pm permanent link main page tweet 0 comments sunday april 03 2011 what is best in academic freedom cronon not to crush your enemies the current attempt by the radical conservative republican party of wisconsin which is so typical of the national and other state republican party leadership has met a roadblock but a reminder of what the philosophy of the gop is here wisconsin republic party leader hao dai ye we won again this is good but what is best in life cronan the open steppe fleet horse falcons at your wrist and the wind in your hair wisconsin republic party wrong conan what is best in life wisconsin republic party leader to crush your enemies see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women wisconsin republic party leader that is good that is good we have video of this meeting and thus the saga of conan meets cronan what s the latest development the chancellor of the university of wisconsin biddy martin has issued a public statement read more 4 03 2011 10 46 00 am permanent link main page tweet 2 comments friday april 01 2011 april what it s still april 1st on the left coast for another two hours and five minutes when i started this post an hour and ten minutes when i finished no matter what date you read above this post some foolish links are in order so out of order japan is on everyone s mind but we need to remember than it s not all doom and gloom and yet in the spirit of helping the tactical philanthropy haiku contest donors want data nonprofits measure impact experts watch and smile hai ku can you write techie haiku win 50 some past winners i like include chekov in the bay searching hard for some space fuel nuclear wessels jay in murfreesboro tennessee i bit a zombie it was ironic but the taste was terrible blake in tulsa oklahoma learn from the jedi discipline control respect dangerous muppet patrick in anaheim california packets of photons streaming by our planet s sky their address divine michaline in chicago illinois eat theobromine drink methyltheobromine heliophobe i zach in tyler texas why kill wash and book are they thinking what i am firefly zombies barak from east brunswick new jersey advice for commenters arguing with bloggers don t argue with a mobius strip because it will be one sided jimmy from poughquag new york let there be peace take me to the black i am a leaf on the wind my serenity jennifer in dallas texas and this speaks to for and sometimes it seems to be me i am all around yet some can t seem to find me i am internet terry in san francisco california read the rest funny did i say geeks not yet let s read henry jenkins talk about gender and game design with james paul gee there s nothing bloggers like better than catching out the new york times in embarrassing goofs i m sorry i missed that press conference and srsly nothing could be better news for bloggers than the ny times digital subscriptions why can i still access nytimes com articles through facebook twitter search engines or my blog yes we encourage links from facebook twitter search engines blogs and social media when you visit nytimes com through a link from one of these channels that article or video slide show etc will count toward your monthly limit of 20 free articles but you will still be able to view it even if you ve already read your 20 free articles so just read a blog to get your new york times fix how hard is that meanwhile if you haven t heard of self published fiction writerjacqueline howett here is how not to become a world famous author read more 4 01 2011 11 05 00 pm permanent link main page tweet 0 comments friday march 25 2011 gop s radical breakage continues who is wisconsin s most dangerous professor he s william cronon who he he s this incredibly threatening man in 1991 cronon completed a book entitled nature s metropolis chicago and the great west which examines chicago s relationship to its rural hinterland during the second half of the nineteenth century in 1991 it was awarded the chicago tribune s heartland prize for the best literary work of non fiction published during the preceding year in 1992 it won the bancroft prize for the best work of american history published during the previous year and was also one of three nominees for the pulitzer prize in history and in 1993 it received the george perkins marsh prize from the american society for environmental history and the charles a weyerhaeuser award from the forest history society for the best book of environmental and conservation history published during the preceding two years in july 1992 cronon became the frederick jackson turner professor of history geography and environmental studies at the university of wisconsin madison after having served for more than a decade as a member of the yale history department in 2003 he was also named vilas pronounced vy lus research professor at uw madison the university s most distinguished chaired professorship cronon has been president of the american society for environmental history and serves as general editor of the weyerhaeuser environmental books series for the university of washington press he has served on the governing council of the wilderness society since 1995 and on the national board of the trust for public land since 2003 he has been elected president of the american historical association for 2011 12 born september 11 1954 in new haven connecticut cronon received his b a 1976 from the university of wisconsin madison he holds an m a 1979 m phil 1980 and ph d 1990 from yale and a d phil 1981 from oxford university cronon has been a rhodes scholar danforth fellow guggenheim fellow and macarthur fellow has won prizes for his teaching at both yale and wisconsin in 1999 was elected a member of the american philosophical society and in 2006 was elected a fellow of the wisconsin academy of sciences arts and letters as well as the american academy of arts and sciences he is obviously a maoist of the worst marxist leninist sort how do we know because the republican party of wisconsin wants him investigated read more 3 25 2011 05 19 00 pm permanent link 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