The power of stillness

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

Stillness influences the system.

Watch this short video first to see this in action.

Standing still changes how people react to you. It may not be instantly, but soon people will ask: what's going on here?

And it will change what you notice in the system. It can help you notice patterns and to get a "meta" view.

And that new perspective can help you to work out what really matters.

Bush Gutting The Endangered Species Act

Officials Regularly Overrule Agency Scientists' Recommendations... Personnel Barred From Using Info To List New Species... Not One Species Listed As Endangered In Nearly Two Years... Conservation Group: "Roadblock To Listing Under Bush Is Criminal"...
Some Species Have 'Vanished' (READ)

Jamie Lee Curtis takes shirt off for magazine

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jamie Lee Curtis went shirtless to pose for AARP The Magazine.

Jamie Lee Curtis couldn't be happier about growing older.

Curtis is shown sporting gray hair and wading in water up to her chest on the cover of the magazine's May/June issue, which will be available Monday.

The star of "True Lies," "A Fish Called Wanda" and other films becomes eligible for membership in AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and over, when she celebrates her birthday November 22.

"I want to be older," she tells the magazine. "I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then."

Curtis, who is married to Christopher Guest and the mother of two children, says she reached a turning point two years ago when a tabloid published a photo of her and gave her weight as 161 pounds.

"I was like, 'How dare you -- I'm not 161 pounds!' I was indignant. I got home and I went on a scale and I was 161 pounds. I was in denial about it," she says.

"So I started a really healthy way of eating, just avoiding things that I had been shoving in my mouth. Over the course of a year, I dropped about 20 pounds," Curtis says.

"Now, I get up at (5 a.m.) every day, filled with energy. I play tennis three times a week, and I do yoga."

Curtis says growing older means paring down to an essential version of yourself.

"I've let my hair go gray. I wear only black and white. Every year I buy three or four black dresses that I just keep in rotation. I own one pair of blue jeans. I've given away all my jewelry, because I don't wear it," she says.

What about her life would she do over?

"I've been an inconsistent parent at times, and it's my greatest regret," she says. "When my daughter was small, I worked too much. I was replicating what my own mother (Janet Leigh) did."

Crow Says She'll Sing With Fleetwood Mac

LOS ANGELES — Sheryl Crow says she'll soon be singing with Fleetwood Mac, a move sure to give new life to the classic rock band, which hasn't toured in several years.

"I don't want to make any official announcements, but I will say that we definitely have plans for collaborating in the future, and we'll see what happens," Crow told the AOL music Web site Spinner.com in a story posted Thursday.

The 46-year-old singer didn't give a date, but said it could happen next year. (READ)

Transcript of Obama's speech

The following is a transcript of Sen. Barack Obama's speech, as provided by Obama's campaign.

We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.

Sen. Barack Obama has said the controversy over his ex-pastor's remarks has been "a distraction" to the campaign.

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy.

Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least 20 more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution -- a Constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.  (DO YOURSELF a favor.. read the entire thing)

Jodie Foster... what can I say. I'll be there.

yes, I love Tina Fey.. see her new movie clip

The two women play polar opposites who come together when white-collar Kate (Tina) hires working-class Angie (Amy) to be her surrogate. What ensures is what Tina calls “as close as you can get to seeing me and Amy in a movie version of Laverne & Shirley.”

She doesn't speak for me.

What you're about to hear is a portion of a jaw-dropping speech delivered by an Oklahoma State Representative at a gathering in her district. This is what they say when they think we're not listening. Learn more at www.victoryfund.org/listening

Hypocrisy and power

SO.. if you are a big moralist you're probably cheating with hookers, if you are a gay basher you are probably gay, if you go after child predators, you prey on children oh.. and all of the above are politicians. And their wives.. why do they show up for the press conferences?

Spitzer Resignation Watch: Aides Say NY Gov Will Step Down

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This is funny?

George Bush took the stage and sang an early farewell at the Gridiron, an annual roast among politicos and journalist in D.C. Although the media weren't allowed to bring their cameras, somebody did manage to smuggle out of some footage.



LYRICS:

Yes you're all gonna miss me, The way you used to quiz me, But soon I'll touch the brown, brown grass of home.

I spent my days clearing brush
I clear my head of all the fuss
But the fuss you made over harriet and brownie
Down the lane I look and here comes Scooter
Finally free of the prosecutor

Chorus

And then I wait and look around me
At the oval walls that surround me
I realize I was only dreaming
For there's Condi and Dick, my old compadre,
Talking to me about some oil rich Saudi,
But soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home."

Chorus

That old White house is behind me,
I am once again carefree,
Don't have to worry 'bout a crisis in Pyongyang.
Down the lane I look, Dick Cheney is strolling
With documents he'd been withholding,
It's good to touch the brown brown grass of home."

A sign of war with Iran?

Fallon resigns as chief of U.S. forces in Middle East

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia after more than a year in the post, citing what he called an inaccurate perception that he is at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.

Adm. William Fallon had been serving as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia since 2007.

Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, was the subject of a recent Esquire magazine profile that portrayed him as resisting pressure for military action against Iran, which the Bush administration accuses of trying to develop nuclear weapons.

In a written statement, he said the article's "disrespect for the president" and "resulting embarrassment" have become a distraction.

"Although I don't believe there have ever been any differences about the objectives of our policy in the Central Command area of responsibility, the simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve America's interests there," Fallon said.

In Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon that he accepted Fallon's resignation "with reluctance and regret."

But, he added, "I think it's the right decision." Watch why some believe Fallon was forced to resign »

"Admiral Fallon reached this difficult decision entirely on his own. I believe it was the right thing to do, even though I do not believe there are in fact significant differences between his views and administration policy," Gates said. (MORE)

Remember How Women Got The Vote?

by humbled and voting Wednesday, Jun. 23, 2004 at 1:29 PM

Vote is a verb, it does not exist without action. It is a hard won right not a candidate or party.

Remember how women got the vote

The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 helpless women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

There was a time when I knew these women well. I met them in college--not in my required American history courses, which barely mentioned them, but in women's history class. That's where I found the irrepressibly brave Alice Paul. Her large, brooding eyes seemed fixed on my own as she stared out from the page. Remember, she silently beckoned. Remember.

I thought I always would. I registered voters throughout college and law school, worked on congressional and presidential campaigns until I started writing for newspapers. When Geraldine Ferraro ran for vice president, I took my 9-year-old son to meet her. "My knees are shaking," he whispered after shaking her hand. "I'm never going to wash this hand again."

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes, it was even inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was. With herself "One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie," she said. "What would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn." The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her "all over again."

HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum. I want it shown on Bunko night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity."

AHA.. a win/win

HI, I'M BUFFY SUMMERS, AND THIS IS MY LOVER SATSU
In the 12th issue of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comic book series, released this week, it was revealed that Buffy slept with a woman ((Thanks to the dozens of AE readers who wrote in to alert me to this news!). You should definitely check out the whole issue — it's a good one! — but for you impatient types, here are the relevant panels, in which Buffy wakes up in bed with a fellow slayer named Satsu who had recently confessed her love for Buffy:  (more)

this looks like fun

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Messed Up.. what if women killed men who hit on them?

When I was in Chicago last weekend. The DJj played this clip on air then took calls. I was shocked that the first caller said he understood what the killer was thinking. The DJ and myself were shocked at his comments. If murder is somehow a rational response to unwanted advances, no men would be left on the planet. Sick.

In case you missed it...

Hillary laughs it up on "SNL"

I want several things from our next president. A coherent foreign policy. An economic plan that helps the poor and middle class instead of corporations and the rich. An extension of full equal rights to all LGBT Americans. And last, but not least, an ability to laugh at her/himself. However you feel about Sen. Hillary Clinton, she proved she could deliver the latter this past weekend, with a surprise stop by Saturday Night Live. (READ)

Do I really laugh like that?
by videovavoom

It's never easy being a trailblazer. For whatever missteps or miscalculations her campaign may have made along the way, you have to applaud how historic Hillary's candidacy has been. In a race with so many firsts, it's easy to overlook what a truly transformational notion a female president still is in America. And if her candidacy does nothing else, perhaps it has exposed how opposed some still are to the very thought of a woman in charge. If I hear/read/see one more discussion about her voice/laugh/dress/hair/femininity/lack of femininity, I think I'll scream. In the face of all the mainstream sexism and old-school misogyny that still exists, it's easy to get discouraged. And, even here, maybe Hillary has shown us the way. Just laugh.
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Obama Makes Gay Push, Hillary Pushes Back

In terms of the Clinton call, Herrin added, “What really surprised us was her passion – that she understood the immediate need for our community.”

Within the first 100 days of her presidency, Herrin said, Clinton promised to extend benefits to all same-sex couples who work for the federal government with an executive order, end “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and use the bully pulpit to advocate for a fully inclusive ENDA and a fully inclusive hate-crimes bill. (Herrin and her executive board were not clear how Sen. Clinton would end “don’t ask, don’t tell” – if by executive order or some other means.)

Clinton also discussed how adamant she is about allowing everyone in America to adopt children if they are a qualified couple. “It was like she was indignant,” Herrin said of Clinton’s manner while talking about same-sex couples’ adoption rights. “Her voice just really changed, and that was the part that surprised us – her passion.” (READ)

Slate's Delegate Calculator

IT ONLY GETS HARDER FOR CLINTON GOING FORWARD.
By Chadwick Matlin and Chris Wilson
Updated Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at 1:18 PM ET

The dust hasn't quite settled from last night's festivities, but Clinton almost certainly finished the night better than she started it. She picked up about a dozen delegates in Ohio, according to NBC News and, as of now, is ahead in Texas' delegate assignments. More nuanced delegate estimates and caucus returns are still trickling in throughout the day, so Obama could still trump her in Texas, despite losing to her in the primary. (READ - PLAY WITH CALC)

She Lives!

CLINTON HAS COME BACK, BUT HAS SHE COME BACK FAR ENOUGH?
By John Dickerson
Posted Wednesday, March 5, 2008, at 12:58 AM ET

During Hillary Clinton's 11 straight losses to Barack Obama, her aides and allies started talking about the Clinton roller coaster. She wasn't in a death plunge, they said; it was just a steep drop before an inevitable upward rise. By winning the Ohio and Texas primaries Tuesday, Clinton got that lift, but her campaign seemed less like a roller coaster and more like Lufthansa flight LH 044, a careening near-death experience that stabilized only at the last white-knuckle moment. (READ)

Why is everyone beating up on Hillary? Can't we complete the race?

Or is it just me? But I don't see why Hillary should quit when it's so close.. lets finish. I'd like to vote yet too ya know. I tried to find an article on this view but couldn't find one. So here is something else. If anyone see one, please comment with it.

Dems Fret Over Prolonged Bitter Fight

"Despite Obama's impressive victories in February, Clinton's comeback is based on sowing political seeds of doubt," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and one of nearly 800 party leaders known as superdelegates for their ability to determine the nomination. "In order to clinch the nomination, he must anticipate the worst attacks ever." (READ)

Is it the beginning of the end for marriage?

Forced to unpack my antipathy, I would cite four po-faced motives: atheism; feminism; a loathing of state and/or public intervention in matters I deem private; and something more oddball regarding the close-down of narrative possibility. One reason would be enough to quash any Doris Day ambition; the four together topple into each other like spinsterish dominos. (READ)

Thought Process Flowchart: Ralph Nader

http://www.236.com/news/2008/02/25/thought_process_flowchart_ralp_1_4699.php

Ralph Nader stole some thunder from Oscar on Sunday by announcing on "Meet the Press" that's he's making his third attempt at capturing the White House. Apparently Nader is unconcerned that Barack Obama is more liberal than he is—this is the time for media spotlight, remember?

Ralph Nader, what the hell are you thinking?

Another reason to love Tina Fey - Bitch is the new Black

wow.. you must read this.

I want a President, Bilerico.com 2/18/08

You must read this.. I can't paste it in.. (READ)

this looks like fun

Indiana Jones teases us with his new leading ladies

Break out the bullwhip and dust off the fedora. Indy is back. And the lovable old coot has some great gals with him along for the ride. The teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released last week, and while it may not show us a lot, it sure brings up a lot of nostalgia.

Well, gosh, that looks fun. Twenty-seven years after the first Indy adventure and nineteen years after its third and seemingly final installment, the franchise is back with a couple of new faces and a welcome old one. The teaser trailer gives us our first look at Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and Indy’s Raiders of the Lost Ark love interest Karen Allen in action. While the plot is rather hush-hush, the film is set in 1957, and Dr. Jones is up against Russian Cold Warriors, including Cate’s character, Agent Irina Spalko. (READ)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Teaser)
by Rialeb

Keith... thank god for Keith.

Edwards Endorsement: Clinton May Get Backing

UPDATE 2/13: John Edwards is "as split as the party he once hoped to lead -- and is seriously considering supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite the sharp criticism he leveled at her on the campaign trail, according to former aides and advisers," ABC News reports: (read)

Sources: Gore won't endorse

(CNN) – He's the most prominent Democrat yet to take a side in the presidential election, but two sources close to Al Gore tell us not to expect the former vice president to endorse either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama any time during the primary season.

The sources say Gore talks with both Clinton and Obama, and is on good terms with both. But with Sen. John Kerry and Bill Clinton both aligned to a candidate, Gore has a role to serve as the neutral elder statesman in the party.

If an agreement needs to be struck between Clinton and Obama down the road, Gore is in position to be the likely facilitator of that discussion.

Gore also will want to work closely with whoever wins the nomination to promote an environmental agenda.

As for two other major Democrats yet to endorse a candidate: sources close to both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say neither individuals have endorsement plans.

Why I love Jon Stewart.

My favorite TV commercial from the Super Bowl

I love the screaming grasshopper!

Safari is about to get crazy fast

When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers online.

Since then, Apple has really run with the KHTML engine, forking it off, renaming its development version "WebKit" and making it faster and leaner than Firefox on the Mac and both Firefox and Internet Explorer on the PC. While it doesn't have a lot of the functionality of Firefox plug-ins and the ActiveX controls of IE, more and more support has been built around the Webkit engine as it gains in popularity. (Yes, Opera is very nice as well - especially the torrent downloading.) (READ)

Burned Up and Burned Out by Politics

Rosie O'Donnell, Huffingtonpost.com

President Bush almost killed me. It's true, and I have the scars to prove it -- multiple scars that are part of the public record -- you saw them in magazines and on my show, and you can see them on my blog frequently -- no twelve year wait required.

It was 2000, and the Republican National Convention was on television. The whole affair felt something like a home invasion, with a chronically smirking and arrogant George W. Bush as ringleader. Not wishing to be robbed of my optimism and hope at the time -- or to tumble into depression and despair -- I shut off the TV and decided to go fishing. (READ MORE)

Kitties - just for fun

Cute! Independents CAN vote in Democratic Primary

I want to be your President

Hillary Clinton, Bilerico.com
February 4, 2008 7:45 PM

[EDITOR'S NOTE:] Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued this guest post to talk about her support for LGBT civil rights.

As I have traveled around the country these past twelve months, what I sensed in my heart has been confirmed – America is embracing its LGBT sons and daughters with an acceptance and understanding as never before. On the campaign trail, a father of a gay son will ask about ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. A woman will ask why she can be discriminated against just because of who she is. Sometimes they wait furtively for the crowd to thin and then whisper their confidences in a soft voice and sometimes they stand up proudly at town meetings and want me to share my views on how I will help lead the change to assure that this country fulfills its promise to everyone. (READ)

Something to Smile About -- TGIF

so not funny... but true

Iraq death toll 'over one million'

More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new survey by a UK polling group.

The report was followed by more violence on Thursday, with five people killed and eight injured in a bomb blast in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

The survey, conducted by UK-based Opinion Research Business (ORB), found that 20 per cent of people in Iraq had experienced at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes. (more)

Dog gone fun!

My Boy AL!

Not sure what prompted this, but Al Gore has quietly released a video with a forceful endorsement of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. It pushes the Democratic establishment that much closer to a position he now shares with Eliot Spitzer and some other leading Dems, and is prompting a bit of grumbling in gay political circles that this batch of candidates aren't quite there.

"Gay men and women ought to have the same rights as heterosexual men and women -- to make contracts, to have hospital visiting rights, to join together in marriage, and I don't understand why it is considered by some people to be a threat to heterosexual marriage," he says on the video, which appears on his Current TV network. "Shouldn't we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to ones partner regardless of sexual orientation?"

Gore's words come after the leading presidential candidates have tiptoed up to, but not crossed, the line of support for same-sex marriage. All three support equal substantive rights for gay and lesbians couples, and they've sought to woo gay voters in other ways: Elizabeth Edwards has voiced her support for same-sex marriage, for instance, and Barack Obama recently scolded the black church for homophobia, in a speech to an African-American congregation.

Wicked: the untold story of the witches of oz

I saw the Broadway show WICKED last weekend in Chicago. If you have the means, I recommend you seeing this wonderful production. The background of how two best friends fighting for good became known as "good" and as "wicked" (until that little Kansas brat came along). Here's a little taste from the Tony Awards with the original cast members.

Are you scared of this wackjob yet?

Huckabee touts conservative views to woo Carolina voters

The Iowa caucus winner weighed in Thursday on the state's perennial debate over displaying the Confederate flag, expressing sympathy with those who believe the rebel banner should be flown. The flag is also considered by many to be a symbol of slavery.

"You don't like people from outside the state telling you what to do with your flag," he told an audience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them where to put the pole."

In a state where religious conservatives comprised about a third of GOP primary voters in 2000, affable former Baptist pastor Huckabee has added a new dash of the old-time religion to his populist economic pitch.

He has reiterated his support for constitutional amendments to ban abortion and same-sex marriage -- which he told the Web site Beliefnet.com could open the door to polygamy, pedophilia and bestiality. "Once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again," he said.

Before Michigan's primary earlier this week, Huckabee also said this: "What we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards, rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family."

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More on this: Huckabee takes heat for gay marriage comments

Colbert Portrait Hangs at Smithsonian

Jan. 16, 2008, 11:06 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stephen Colbert was denied when he tried to run for president this year in South Carolina. Now the fake TV pundit is getting some love from the city of his birth.

His portrait was hung Wednesday at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington for a six-week showing in what the museum considers an "appropriate place" — right between the bathrooms near the "America's Presidents" exhibit. Museum officials stress it's only temporary. (MORE)

Me Likey!

(CNET.com) -- As was heavily predicted before its unveiling, Apple's new laptop, called the MacBook Air, is not quite an ultraportable but is still very small.

Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it's .76-inch thick at its thickest part. Apple calls it the "world's thinnest notebook."

Though the MacBook Air is not quite the thinnest laptop ever, it is among the thinnest we've seen (the Fujistu LifeBook Q2010 and the Toshiba Portege R500 both measure 0.8 inch thick, but neither tapers to 0.16 inch as the Air does).

The MacBook Air includes the usual iSight camera, an LED backlit display, an ambient light sensor, and a big touchpad that works with multitouch gestures, such as rotating a photo by twisting your fingers on the touchpad.

As for what's inside this slim laptop, we're looking at a 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, custom-made by Intel to fit into the slim chassis, 2GB of RAM, and a choice of either an 80GB standard 1.8-inch hard drive or a 64GB SSD drive (which really should be standard for something so forward-looking).

Moving up to the SSD drive and faster CPU drives the price up from $1,799 to a whopping $3,098. (MORE)

Creating Change

Creating Change is the one and only time each year that more than 2,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates from every corner of the country converge to strategize, socialize and mobilize for LGBT equality.

Cartoon

Hillary Tears Up Under Pressure of Non-Stop Campaign

Seems to have helped her. I think it's ok to show a little emotion.

yeah.. chalk one more up for us curvy chicks!

Are curvier women smarter?

CNN's Judy Fortin looks at research that suggests that curvier women are smarter and have smarter kids too.
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A Year in Iraq

MANY Americans and Iraqis feel that 2007 was the year the war in Iraq turned around: the “surge” strategy has pacified large sections of the country; previously hostile factions like those of the cleric Moktada al-Sadr and the sheiks in Anbar Province have dropped their opposition or even sided with American and government forces; and the number of insurgent attacks has dropped steadily. Still, numbers don’t lie: for those in uniform, 2007 was the deadliest year since the invasion. (READ)

For fellow Project Runway fans

I found a hilarious recapper (thanks Brandi)
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Project Runway: Bittersweet
via socialitelife.buzznet.com, By J. Harvey

Previously - Steven couldn't hack a wedding dress, so he got booted. Fashion bear Chris was brought back after Jack's face exploded and he had to leave. And we learned that Tim Gunn has made several bad decisions at 3 AM. Get it, Tim!

Oh my sweets, I apologize for my (re)tardniness in recapping this week, as I was in NYC taping that webcast for "The Daily Special" where I looked like an albino bullfrog! It will never happen again! How could I be late on this one, it involved one of my favorite things - CHOCOLATE! Nummers! Let's get to the sweetness and mess! (READ)

Iowa Caucus and My Mom

I am originally from Iowa. My mother, who is 80 years old, has lived in Iowa her whole life. She has never attended a Caucus.. until now.

First let me tell you a little about my mom. She's a "greatest generation" woman, widow, and Catholic with a ton of kids. Probably always voted the same way her husband did. This year, in the freezing snow, she decided to attend her first caucus.

Another thing about my mom, she is not an opinionated woman. This woman has trouble deciding anything including what kind of salad to order. A trait no doubt of women from the WW2 generation who always had their husbands to make all the decisions. Then they find themselves widowed and unable to decide anything without help. Expressing an opinion seems a little scary, "what if my friends don't agree?"

MY mom went to the caucus AND wore a Clinton button!! She wore a little volunteer sign for getting there early, and actually TALKED! When someone asked her "why should I vote for Hillary?", she actually gave a really political intelligent answer!! When she got home, she called her lesbian, activist daughter and said "Guess where I've been?!!" all full of excitement.

It really gives me hope and makes me really proud of my Mommy!!

Yet another reason I like John best...

"In April of last year, Gov. Lynch and the state of New Hampshire passed a bill officially recognizing civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. This courageous act showed us that the idea of America – fairness, justice and equal opportunity – can become a reality when we have the courage to stand up for what is right."

John Edwards about New Hampshire's new civil unions law in a press release

Juno

I saw this movie last weekend. If you like smartass, witty independent movies, I recommend.

Juno is a smart teenager, but she still got pregnant from her dalliance with her geeky classmate Paulie Bleeker. What's a young woman to do? Her spunky friend Leah has an idea: go shopping for parents to adopt the baby. When she comes across a well-to-do suburban couple who is desperate for a child, Juno thinks her problems might all be over. But in reality, even more difficult choices and mixed emotions arise for Juno as she struggles to find her place as a daughter, student, mother, and, ultimately, adult.

Starring:

Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney

Keys to the Kingdom

VanityFair

Between them, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have made 13 of the 100 top-grossing movies of all time. Yet they struggled for more than a decade with the upcoming fourth installment of their billion-dollar Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Annie Leibovitz gets exclusive access to the set, while Lucas, Spielberg, and their star, Harrison Ford, tell Jim Windolf about the long standoff over the plot, why critics and fans will be upset, and how they’ve updated Indy. (READ)

Annie Leibovitz snaps Cate Blanchett on the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:

this cracks me up...

Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007)

Benazir Bhutto excelled at asserting her right to rule. In a male-dominated, Islamic society, she rose to become her slain father's political successor, twice getting elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan. She would also be exiled twice. In the end, Bhutto was better at rallying people to the idea of her power than at keeping them inspired by her use of it. (READ)

Gayest Sports Ad Ever

Five reasons why I loved/hated my TV in 2007

Whenever I see someone with one of those “Kill Your Television” bumper stickers, I feel two distinct emotions. One, shut up, Smuggy McSmugerson. I bet you don’t read the copies of The New Yorker in your bathroom either. And two, yeah, sometimes I do feel like taking a 12-gauge to the old idiot box. This year I got my usual mix of joy and pain from my television. The highs were so very fantastic. The lows so very sucktastic. Here's a rundown of my top and bottom five TV shows for 2007. (READ)

Britain's Queen Takes Up YouTube

Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday. (view her 2007 message)

The queen will use the popular video-sharing Web site to send out her 50th annual televised Christmas message, which she first delivered live to the nation and its colonies on Dec. 25, 1957.

Buckingham Palace also began posting archive and recent footage of the queen and other royals on the channel Sunday, with plans to add new clips regularly.

YouTube, which allows anyone to upload and share video clips, was founded in 2005 and bought by Google last year.

"The queen always keeps abreast with new ways of communicating with people," Buckingham Palace said in a statement. "The Christmas message was podcast last year." (READ)

--- personal comment.. the 81 year old Queen of England has a YouTube page, and our president calls it the "internets".. and thinks he might have used the maps thing one time.

Review: Fun 'Wilson's' at war -- with itself

Mike Nichols' undercover history of the liberation of Afghanistan, "Charlie Wilson's War," is so witty and light on its feet, it's a pity it pulls its punches.


A society matron (Julia Roberts) gets a congressman (Tom Hanks) involved in the Cold War in "Charlie Wilson's War."
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A deft condensation of George Crile's nonfiction best-seller, this is the story of how an obscure Texan congressman helped bring down the Soviet empire and -- indirectly -- the World Trade Center.

Universal seems at a loss as to how to market this truly tall tale -- but don't blame the publicity guys. The combined smarts of director Nichols, writer Aaron Sorkin, Tom Hanks and Co. haven't pinned down how they feel about Wilson or what he did.

The movie's tone is all over the place: sincere and celebratory one minute, caustic and ironic the next. There's nuance and complexity here, but it's doled out with broad farce and knee-jerk populist rhetoric. It's as if they want it to play inside the Beltway and hit below the belt, both at once.

Set during the Reagan era and resonating uneasily with current events, in many ways this is a deeply Clintonian movie: astute, pragmatic, equivocal and likely to prove highly contentious. (That's what you get if you put the director of "Primary Colors" with the writer of "The West Wing.")

It is fun, though. (READ)

First-Lady Extinction?

IF IT'S IMMINENT, HALLELUJAH.
By Timothy Noah, the Slate.com

In almost any campaign you may still see the wife in the skirted blue or red suit, the sensible pumps, accepting her wrist corsage from the 4-H club winner. But, behind its impregnable smiles and circle pins, the entire institution has been slowly crumbling. Increasingly, politicians' wives have jobs of their own or, cleanest of all, careers that have absolutely nothing to do with politics. Another reason political wifehood is dying is that men now are trying to be political spouses too, and they can't stand it. ... Sometime, in the not-too-distant future, we will acknowledge the passing of [the first lady's] role with the same amazement we felt at the fall of the Berlin Wall, crashing down so easily after standing for decades as an unbreachable certainty. Boy, we'll think; that sucker wasn't as strong as it looked. (READ)

N.H. Gay Group Endorses John Edwards

One of New Hampshire's leading gay rights groups has endorsed former North Carolina senator John Edwards for president. The New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition cited Edwards's commitment to equal rights and fighting discrimination in all forms, according to a press release.

"We took a long look at all of the candidates, we met with many of them, and in our judgment, John Edwards's sincere commitment to battling discrimination and ensuring equal rights for every American is unparalleled," the group's executive director, state representative Mo Baxley, said in the release. "He and his wonderful wife, Elizabeth, have spent their entire lives fighting for those without a voice and standing up for what is right. John Edwards will be the kind of president we can trust to stand up for everyday Americans."

The coalition quotes Edwards as saying he supports the repeal of the military's ban of gay service members as well as the full repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. He also quoted as saying he would expand hate-crimes legislation and prohibit job discrimination against LGBT workers. The coalition acknowledges that while Edwards support civil unions for same-sex couples, he is not in favor of same-sex marriage. (The Advocate)

The Best Joni Mitchell Song Ever

I was just talking about Joni Mitchell today and then I came across this article. Is there anything better or sadder than her Christmas song, River. "Oh I wish I had a river to skate away on." They don't make poets like Joni anymore.


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AN ODE TO OBSESSIVE LISTENING.
By Ron Rosenbaum, Slate.com
Posted Friday, Dec. 14, 2007, at 10:56 AM ET

This is a love letter. To a love song. One I keep returning to. One I keep feeling I need to do justice to. I don't know if I can, but I'll try.

A couple of months ago, I'd gone back to playing it. Only I can't play it just once. I have to play it over and over again for hours on end. I can't get enough of it. It's not just a love song: It's a road song, it's a motel song, it's a Southwestern desert song, it's a disappearance and death song. It's a Joni Mitchell song. It's "Amelia." (READ)

The Road Warrior

Newsweek

Even if he loses in Iowa's bigger cities, Edwards can still win by wrapping up smaller, far-flung precincts. (READ STORY)

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HEY, QUEEN LATIFAH: WE ARE FAMILY

Rumors are abound of Queen Latifah's supposed nuptials to her trainer, Jeanette Jenkins. In case you hadn't heard, Queen Latifah is not an out lesbian, and has recently done all she can to prove that she's straight (short of dating an actual, um, man). (READ)

Dr Susan Love and the L Word

I don't remember seeing Dr. Susan Love on the L Word in the cameo listed below but I do know she is one of the most respected minds in breast cancer research.

via AfterEllen.com

NOW THAT'S A POWER LESBIAN!

An anonymous L Word fan has just made a $1 million donation to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation — the largest private donation in the Foundation's history — in honor of actors Erin Daniels and Leisha Hailey. As many of you well remember, Erin Daniels' character, Dana Fairbanks, died of breast cancer in Season 3 of The L Word.

The donor, according to the press release, "wanted to honor these two actresses and the intense love and friendship that existed between the characters they played." The $1 million will establish the Erin Daniels and Leisha Hailey Fund for Breast Cancer, and the mysterious benefactor has also pledged to match every dollar donated to the fund in 2008 and 2009.

"It is an honor that our breast cancer story line touched someone in such a tremendous way that she so generously gave to such a tragic illness," said Leisha Hailey in the press release. "I am awed by her gesture and it inspires me to act with my conscience and give of myself."

According to Dr. Susan Love, who made a guest appearance on The L Word after Dana's diagnosis: "After I was on the show, the donor visited our website and began to educate herself about the intraductal research we are doing. In our work, she saw the potential for cure, and she recognized the difference a significant donation could make."

And by "significant," she wasn't kidding! What a way to turn a devastating story line into something much more positive. If you'd like to make a donation to the Erin Daniels and Leisha Hailey Fund, visit the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.

Even CNN noticed Jodie Foster's OUT comment

OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE FIRE

It's been over a week since AfterEllen.com wrote one of the first stories about Jodie Foster sort of outing herself at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast on Dec. 4 by thanking her partner, Cydney Bernard, when accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, but the mainstream media is only just starting to take serious note of this story. (READ)

Amazon buys J. K. Rowling Book

We're incredibly excited to announce that Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. The purchase price was £1,950,000, and Ms. Rowling is donating the proceeds to The Children's Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is extensively illustrated and handwritten by the bard herself--all 157 pages of it. It's bound in brown Moroccan leather and embellished with five hand-chased hallmarked sterling silver ornaments and mounted moonstones. (READ)

The Fight Is On and You Are In It

Nadine Smith, Bilerico.com

The far right now has the signatures... Another spiteful amendment is heading to the ballot.

This time Florida will face a deceptively named and dangerous "Marriage Protection Amendment." They picked a fight in Florida in 2008 for one reason - Florida is a must win Presidential battleground. This is yet another cynical attempt to elect the most right wing candidates by ensuring prejudice drive their voters to the polls. That is why this isn't just a battle for Floridians. Everyone reading this has a stake in what happens at the polls in Florida come November.

But here's the good news. We can win and you can be a part of this historic victory. (READ)

Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?

Dec. 6: Special comment: In light of the NIE, “Countdown’s” Keith Olbermann gives a Special Comment about what President Bush knew about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and when he found out about it. Watch the video below.

Jon Stewart's Greatest Lesbian Moments

Since taking over as host of Comedy Central's Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has made "fake news" a part of the cultural vernacular. He has demonstrated that there's a market for smart, political commentary — as long as it also makes people laugh. And he has shown that being really angry can also be really funny. (READ)

I can't WAIT!! Sex & The City movie trailer is out

HuffPost's "The Bush Years" Posters: A Powerful Political Stocking Stuffer

huffingtonpost.com

Three weeks ago, we launched HuffPost's Posterizing the Modern GOP project to graphically capturing the lunacy of the Bush years. And we asked for your help adding to the names, events, and slogans depicted. (view posters)

Women, who do YOU want in the White House?

via AfterEllen.com

An excellent new PSA encouraging women to vote that features OUT actress Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip).

In it, Paulson, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Christine Lahti and others deliver some sobering statistics about single women voters (47 million single women are eligible to vote, but only 20 million do), as women of all makes and models stand before — and, most importantly, behind — the presidential desk in what looks like the Oval Office. The PSA was created by Women's Voices. Women Vote, an organization whose goal is to "turn unmarried, uninvolved women into active voters who are influencing debate."

Watch the clip below:

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George Clooney's Craig-Mocking Skit For Julia Roberts

George Clooney and surprise guest Brad Pitt congratulated Julia Roberts during AMC's American Cinematheque Tribute. It aired on AMC Wednesday night.

Tina Fey talks to "Playboy"

Tina Fey and why she is the coolest straight woman on the planet. Bold statements. In an interview for the January issue of Playboy, the 30 Rock star is her usual delightfully candid self.

Paula Abdul “was awful” on Saturday Night Live. Paris Hilton is “a terrible role model and a terrible young woman.” Jessica Alba “has an amazing, gorgeous body.” It’s like she is quoting from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident. (READ)

Meeting the Iranian Challenge

Joe Biden, Huffington Post

If the President takes us to war with Iran without Congressional approval, I will call for his impeachment. I do not say this lightly or to be provocative. The Constitution is clear. And so am I. (READ)

Jodie Foster Thanks Cydney in Accepting Sherry Lansing Leadership Award

In a moving speech, Foster thanked "my beautiful Cydney" when accepting the award Tuesday.

In a surprising and moving speech on Tuesday, Jodie Foster, 45, thanked "my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss" when she accepted the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the 16th annual Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast.

The award is named after the former chief of Paramount Pictures, Sherry Lansing, who told the Associated Press that she was "overwhelmed to be presenting it to Jodie."

The L.A. Daily News reporter covering the event, Greg Hernandez, noted surprise "at the public acknowledgment of who I presume is Cydney Bernard, the woman who is widely reported to be her life partner," because Foster has always been "so intensely private." (READ MORE)

Big Kitty

A WOMAN IN COLUMBIA FOUND A LION CUB, WHO WAS WOUNDED AND HUNGRY. SHE TOOK HIM HOME AND RAISED HIM TILL HE WAS TOO BIG TO KEEP AT HOME.

SHE THEN BROUGHT HIM TO THE LOCAL ZOO, BUT SHE VISITS HIM EVERY DAY.

LOOK AT HOW HE GREETS HER.!!

A darker view of 'The Wizard of Oz'

No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either.

"Tin Man" offers a different vision of the "Wizard of Oz" crew.

"It's postmodern, more like Indiana Jones than a fairy tale," said Deschanel, whose Dorothy -- the role immortalized by Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" -- is a disaffected, motorcycle-riding waitress called DG.

Based on L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which inspired the 1939 film classic, Sci Fi's six-hour "Tin Man" is not a musical but a brooding, special effects-driven fantasy.

"The book was written in 1900 and its story still lives," said Robert Halmi Sr., one the executive producers.

"It's a coming-of-age story," Deschanel said of the miniseries airing December 2 through December 4. (MORE)

Speechless... spots supporting the writers strike.

(lots more)

This one makes fun of AA with Laura Linney.. funny.

The Christmas Season is here.. enjoy.

Gore in the White House.. oh... he looks so good there... and he's taller.

Al Gore slipped out the side door of the West Wing.

In his private Oval Office meeting with President Bush, the former vice president insisted that they had spoken about global warming "the whole time.'' It wasn't clear if the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who shared the honor for his work on climtate change, was serious.

"Of course,'' they had spoken about global warming, Gore said, strolling down a rain-slick Pennsylvania Avenue with wife Tipper Gore after a private session with the president. For Gore, who had gone into the White House for a reception for the American winners of the 2007 Nobel Prizes, this was his first return to the Oval Office since leaving office. (MORE)

Obama on Meet the Press about Gays

Five Reasons Kucinich Should be Taken Seriously

1.) Dennis Kucinich was right on Iraq. The Congressman stood up to ideological war hawks, refusing to submit to the constitutional calamity of a preemptive invasion.

2.) He was right on the Patriot Act. Kucinich lambasted the serpentine piece of legislation acting as a gateway to eroding our cherished civil liberties.

3.) The Congressman is right on health care. Unlike slipshod “universal coverage” plans proposed by Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama (all of which attempt to incurably fix a broken, private system by virtually mandating that every American buy into it) Kucinich knows first hand that the only morally and economically satisfying version of health care is the one beginning with the words: not-for-profit.

4.) Strength through Peace: The hallmark of the Congressman’s presidential campaign would end using war as an instrument of policy. Haters call him a peacenik devoid of reality. I submit that the intellectually curious might see a president who would embody unparalleled leadership in nuclear non-proliferation and in tackling global warming (mother nature’s WMD) to bridge frayed international alliances, combat climate change and, in effect, revive the plummeting dollar.

5.) Kucinich is right on impeachment. Dennis, as it currently stands – along with 22 courageous signatories – has been the only Congressman brave enough to officially propose articles of impeachment against the dangerously dark Vice President Richard B. Cheney. And on this, he hits the bull’s eye too.

(MORE)

Young warned over social websites

BBC

An ICO website aims to help young people protect personal details
Millions of young people could damage their future careers with the details about themselves they post on social networking websites, a watchdog warns.
The Information Commissioner's Office found more than half of those asked made most of their information public.

Some 71% of 2,000 14 to 21-year-olds said they would not want colleges or employers to do a web search on them before they had removed some material.

The commission said the young needed to be aware of their electronic footprint. (READ)

Funny Censorship!

I'm thankful for... Mel B.

She's so yummy, I had to go buy the new Spice Girls CD. Enjoy some Dancing Highlights while your turkey coma is wearing off:

Green Thanksgiving: Get Smart, Don't Be a Turkey

HuffingtonPost.com

In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians stuffed their faces in an autumn harvest feast, the first Thanksgiving. Although historians aren't certain of the menu, it's safe to say the pilgrims weren't gobbling up pesticide-smothered potatoes and antibiotic-infused turkey.

Fast forward nearly four centuries, and this Thursday the majority of American's will sit down to a copious table of factory-produced food. With few exceptions, 50 million turkeys will come from animal factories, while the vast majority of our fruits, vegetables, even vino will travel hundreds of miles from farm factories with little regulation or regard for environmental best practices. While raising turkeys in a factory setting, or growing corn in a pesticide patch might make our food cheaper and available to a large number of consumers, factory farming comes with seriously negative consequences for Mother Earth. (MORE)

Turkey This, Bush

Reid Cancels Senate Thanksgiving Break To Avoid Bush Recess Appointments

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to keep the chamber in session over the Thanksgiving break to block President Bush from making any unsavory recess appointments while Senators are out of town. (READ)

A Sneak Peak at the new L Word Season

Season 5 looks very interesting. The preview can be seen on the Showtime website. (click here)

Sarah Michelle Gellar strips down, but would Buffy approve?

Sarah Michelle Gellar is the Woman of the Year. But wait, wait — before you get all excited, let me clarify. She is the 2008 Maxim Woman of the Year. Yeah, kind of puts a damper on your wooing and hooing, doesn't it? (READ)

Frank Joins Baldwin in Backing Hillary for President

Bilerico, Filed by: Steve Ralls
November 14, 2007 1:24 PM

It's official: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) now has the support of both openly gay Members of Congress. Clinton's campaign announced yesterday that Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) has joined Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) in supporting Hillary's bid for the White House. Frank, who is Chairman of the House Financial Services Commitee, will also serve as an economic adviser to the campaign. (READ)

If only you knew what you knew...

I think it was an ex-CEO who recently bemoaned, "If only we knew what we knew..."

He was talking about his sprawling, multinational organization with tens of thousands of people, thousands of projects ... and hundreds of wheels being reinvented on a daily basis.

But the lament rings just as true for you and me as it does for a big company. If only you (yes, you) and I (yes, me), when faced with one of our daily challenges, stopped for a moment to remember what we already know.

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First-idea-itis
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When does this amnesia show up? Pretty much each and every time we need to decide to do something, it happens.

We get infected by first-idea-itis
Here are the symptoms:
When a challenge comes up we immediately think of one, just one response and we run with it so long as...

-it's possible
-it's familiar
-it's not too challenging

So your idea is not awful. But it doesn't come close to tapping into what you know and what you are capable of doing.

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The pause button
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Luckily it doesn't take too much to hit the pause button and give yourself just a little more time and space to remember what you already know.

The shamanic saying is, "The wisdom enters through the wound," and we've all collected our share of scars along the way to ensure we have a healthy quotient of wisdom.

Slow down, hit the pause button and ask yourself a couple of questions to generate new possibilities and remember what you already know.

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Do these questions help?
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Next time you are facing a challenge, don't fall for the first idea-itis.
Give yourself a little time and space, and see what new possibilities get created with these five questions:

1. What do you need to remember about yourself? What do you know? What have you learned? At your best, what are you capable of doing?

2. What do you know to be true about this situation? About situations like this? About you in this situation?

3. What's the wise thing to do?

4. What does your intuition tell you to do?

5. If you remembered yourself at your most generous, most confident, most bold - what might you do?

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Michael Bungay Stanier is a professional keynote speaker, the author of the best selling coaching tool, Get Unstuck & Get Going ...on the stuff that matters and the creator of Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun and The 5.75 Questions You've Been Avoiding. A certified coach and Rhodes Scholar, he works with teams and organizations to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work.

Equality Florida

forgive me while I test a youtube movie from my pals at Equality Florida.

John Edwards and LGBT

Just wanted to revisit Edward's gay positions after seeing it in his "plan to build one america" pdf. (page77)

He also has them on his website. I think he has the most honest answers on his position. He has said he personally has trouble based on his upbringing in the south but he's working on it. And Elizabeth is pro-gay marriage.

View his clip from the HRC presidential forum.

Spice Girls - the blast from the past is back.

My mistake.. Sporty didn't come OUT. My bad. Just five hot straight women. I still like Scary best.. she grew up nice, huh? Talk about MILFs.

Sporty is still the main one who can sing, but they do all seem hotter with age. If I remember correctly, Posh and Ginger can't sing (thus they are the most naked) and Sporty came OUT didn't she? Thanks to Dancing with the Stars, I'm now a Scary Spice Fan. She's yummy.
Go Girl Power!

I'm thinking he's not going to run.

Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving Venture Capital

The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime moneyman to make over the $6 trillion global energy business. A Fortune exclusive.

(Fortune Magazine) -- It's lunchtime on Sand Hill Road, and Al Gore wants answers. "How does the efficiency decline with latitude?" he asks. "What size community could be served by one plant? If a manufacturer like GE wanted to make smaller turbines, would the technology support a smaller scale?" (READ)

Holy Crap

Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States change their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information. (more)