Open Thread Monday 08-03-2015
Submitted by smiley7 on Mon, 08/03/2015 - 3:22am
Dance me to the end of love
Monday morning poetry:
Burlington Snow
Dance me to the end of love
Monday morning poetry:
Burlington Snow
Good Sunday morning 99percenters!
Today we'll take a look at the 2016 Green Party Presidential Candidates.
So how was everybody's blue moon?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBIVabiuR0]
Shulamith Firestone was the sort of person who arrives but once in a blue moon. A rebel and a rowdy, an articulate and effective revolutionary, a frustrated-cum-far-seeing visionary, a bold and brash and truly gifted writer.
This evening's music features blues guitarist Larry McCray.
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Anon
I wrote a diary in 2010 over at DKOS on Human Rights. It got little to no interest. What interest there was concerned a perceived slight against Transgendered persons. Two years later I re-wrote that diary, adding to, and subtracting from the first one in hopes that folks would finally hear me. It didn't fly then either.
I am going to try again here.
The meaning of life is a philosophical and spiritual question concerning the significance of living or existence in general.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
Philosophers have believed for centuries that no intrinsic meaning exists in the universe. Here we will summarize three of the major responses to this belief.
There is an old Kurdish saying that goes, “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”
This evening's music features Texas blues singer and guitarist Mance Lipscomb.