Waiting
I’m sitting in Javapalooza in Middletown waiting for the IT guy from my employer to call. I have to load either images or data to a Dell laptop and it’s not reading the CDs.
I’ve never used a PC that worked like it was supposed to or even well. Added the poor communication from my employer in Bethesda …
In the front is this old iBook, behind is the questionable PC. Next to the computers is the pumpernickel bagel and Americano.
Moments later …
Data is loading. I had to switch the drives in the two PCs – one had a DVD ROM and the other didn’t.
The PC down there on the chair on the right is my company-issued Dell laptop. At best it’s a piece of junk. Well, it IS a Dell and PC
NBC News WVIT 30
Moments earlier, Lauren Petty from a local NBC affiliate interviewed a girl and I in Javapalooza, a coffee shop in Middletown, CT.
They were doing a story on “Cyber Monday”, supposedly the biggest online shopping day of the year.
A phone cam shot of the girl being interviewed. I had the shot posted before her interview was finished.
NPR had a story on Cyber Monday on Morning Edition earlier today.
The newscast will run tonight at 5. I’m not sure if I’ll be on there or not – who knows.
Incommunicado and the Muted Shout
This morning on a local NPR affiliate radio station, they ran an essay by Penn Jillette as part of their weekly series “This I Believe”.
Mr Jillette’s essay nailed some of the anemic excuses given for irresponsible behavior and acts of treacherous violence in the name of God.
In the name of God.
What does that mean? What have words like Morals or Values … into what have they evolved?
In the name of God.
In the name of Freedom.
Those who shout the loudest from their promintory have the least to say – or perhaps they have to convince themselves that what they’re saying and doing (or not doing) is True and Good.
A lie repeated is still a lie.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie about WMD, about being a cowboy, about fake ‘journalists’ promoting awful and self-serving Government programs, about Government programs that take essential services form the poor and give tax credits to the rich, about tax breaks to oil companies, about leaking a name of Valerie Plame and the related cover up …
A lie repeated is still a lie.
How is this Good or Right?
How is this Moral?
No one has ever been able to explain any of this to me in an effective manner.
Believers in the Bible and Creationism say Evolution is flawed and untrue. They say a century of research, experimentation, peer review, and throrough Scientifc Method means nothing. In the place of actual, proveable study are 2000 plus year old stories – complete with mistranslations and interpretations from a few different languages – with no proof, no study and with blind faith.
Why is blind faith so good? Look what happens to people when they stop asking questions. Look what happens when we’re complacent.
Intelligent Design – repackaged Creationism – is fine to teach in religious environments but NOT in a public classroom. I went to elementary school at a Catholic in Danbury, CT. In that school my love of science and learning began … and I was proud of my constant F’s in Christian Doctrine.
Jimmy Carter, a devout Evangelical, a nuclear physicist, peanut farmer and Southern Gentleman says religion and science can not only coexist but flourish. Even Maimonides said science and religion can thrive and work together … he said that in the 1100′s.
I’ll get more into this later.
In the name of God.
In the name of Freedom.
In the name of Patriotism.
A lie repeated is still a lie.
Selah.
