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To live outside of time

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  If you read the paper most everyday like I do, in your own mind you can come to fancy yourself something of a universe master. Something can go big and surprisingly wrong but to you it seems logical - because you can see the developing evidence in your daily paper looking backward. ( I stopped time once, watching Kuwait invasion on TV at bar, while reading day's paper with previous day's news of possible armed buildup on border (and night before was reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which begins in Kuwait.) So I understand Donald Rumsfeld, the Donald Rumsfeld who stars in a major motion picture known as the Unknown Known. I call Rumsfeld's 'unknown unknown' wordsmithing ridiculously sublime because, upon viewing Errol Morris' film, I conclude that Rumsfeld willfully misunderstood what he chose to. Abbot and Costello had the St.Louis team, and Rumsfeld and Chaney had Pearl Harbor. The seven-year War secretary's 'understanding' of the Pearl H...

Some Times Funnies - Background Noise Steps Forward

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/science/space/ripples-from-the-big-bang.html

Walk it like you talk it less you lose that beat

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I got hearts, ah, in my looney tunes I got dreams and you do, too I got ten-wheel drive To pick you up, up to your ears, oh I got refined carbon in my eyelids cleared I've got no one to love and no one to fear You better walk it And talk it less you lose that beat You better lose yourself mama And knock yourself right off of your feet. -Lou Reed