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POPSFirst Bush-Obama Meeting: Hard Feelings and Hand Sanitizer
"I hope you don't mind me giving you a piece of advice." "Not at all, Mr. President," Obama told the commander-in-chief. "You've got a bright future," Bush said presciently. "Very bright. But I've been in this town awhile and, let me tell you, it can be tough. When you get a lot of attention like you've been getting, people start gunnin' for ya. And it won't necessarily just be coming from my side, you understand. From yours, too. Everybody'll be waiting for you to slip, know what I mean? So watch yourself." Bush then noted that he and Obama had something in common. "We both had to debate Alan Keyes," the president said. "That guy's a piece of work, isn't he?" Obama laughed and even "put my arm around his shoulder as we talked," he recalled, although he added the gesture "might have made many of my friends, not to mention the Secret Service agents in the room, more than a little uneasy." Despite this display of bonhomie, Obama said the president's demeanor turned down
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POPSStinging Talk about Obama? Never Mind Now Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential historian, said she was hard-pressed to find a similar moment in history when the tone had changed so drastically, and so quickly, among so many people of such prominence. “I don’t think that’s happened very often,” Ms. Goodwin said. “The best answer I can give you is they don’t want to be on the wrong side of history, and they recognize how the country saw this election, and how people feel that they’re living in a time of great historic moment.”
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POPSSex science facts Getting away from not so hot Sarah,theres no fool like an old fool when it comes to love,I should know ha ha,after a couple of marriages the younger girl keeps keeps crossing my mind.For those interested about fickle nature of attraction the entire artical is worth a read for your information and guidance in understanding the human condition.
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POPSCan You Meet Me For Coffee, Sugar? Ok, this is a problem for me all the time. I came out to one of my sweetest friends in the whole world who I absolutely adore and she said "You mean you've been bisexual all this time and you NEVER once hit on me when we grew up together and we had sleepovers; weren't you attracted to me?" Now, I knew she was just joking, but there is no good answer to that question. It is a lose, lose situation. If you admit attraction, it may freak her out. If you say she isn't your type, she may be offended and embarrassed. You cannot win this one. Don't try. And I've had some curious friends say "If you don't mind me asking, how do two women have sex together; I mean something is OBVIOUSLY missing. *LOL* missing for them, but not for me. I think straight women sometimes think, OMG! Why is she telling me this? and I try to explain that the reason is because I cannot continue our friendship with such a deep dishonesty on this level by not saying who I really am :)
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POPSBeauty and the Brain Future work may elucidate the long-term effects of one's surroundings on brain function and the relationship between aesthetically pleasing spaces and their functionality. What one considers beautiful is, of course, influenced by culture, learning, and experience, and not everything we find beautiful will ultimately be traceable to the structure and function of our brain. The larger question "What is beauty?" still poses a major challenge, but answering it no longer seems so impossible.
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POPSBeauty and the Brain Future work may elucidate the long-term effects of one's surroundings on brain function and the relationship between aesthetically pleasing spaces and their functionality. What one considers beautiful is, of course, influenced by culture, learning, and experience, and not everything we find beautiful will ultimately be traceable to the structure and function of our brain. The larger question "What is beauty?" still poses a major challenge, but answering it no longer seems so impossible.
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POPSMind if I borrow that speech Biden's speech continued: "Those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse? Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?" Biden's Welsh accent was as phony as Madonna's British accent. If this were merely a failure to cite Kinnock, why was Labor Leader Neil Kinnock talking about the Biden family and the coal mines of Pennsylvania? Biden not only lifted -- as The New York Times reported -- Kinnock's "phrases, gestures and lyrical Welsh syntax intact," but also his entire life story.
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POPSConceptual Thinking versus Metaphor I too think that, useful as it is, syntax-locked rational discourse is but a pale ghostly existence contrasted with the vital richness of metaphor and image-ination.
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POPSA little Kiss The older lady was thinking, "Isn't it wonderful that even in this permissive day and age there are still young women who have a little self-respect and dignity?" The young woman, shaking her head and greatly puzzled, asked herself, "Why in the world would any man in his right mind want to kiss an old fossil like that when I'm sitting here?" The Sergeant Major, rubbing his sore face, was outraged that any woman could ever think that a man in his position would try to sneak a kiss in the dark. And the private, grinning from ear to ear, was thinking, "What a crazy and mixed up world this is when a private can kiss the back of his hand and then smack a Sergeant Major in the face and get away with it!"
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POPSRelix, the Magazine for Music Show Reviews Relix, "the Magazine for Music," delivers the latest show reviews and coverage of music across genre divides; a single issue might contain articles on artists as diverse as Ben Harpers, Bob Marley, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, and the Grateful Dead. In short, Relix is “deadicated” to not only entertaining its readership, but providing a true community for lovers of Music for the Mind.
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POPSDesktopography - Nature's Design on Your Desktop I loved their previous collections of art for your desktop and now 2008 is out. Everywhere I go with my laptop I get comments on my desktop background - these are just beautiful. I use in conjunction with Iconoid (http://www.sillysot.com/) which allows me to hide my icons on my desktop.
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POPSRove: "Coolly Arogant" Notice that Rove didn't dabble for an instant with sterotypical racial buzz wordery. Just the oppoiste; Obama is portrayed as a country club swell. Never mind though,the blogger from whose site I pulled Rove's quote goes immediately to the racism that does grip the Democrat party. “ This is proof positive that Karl Rove lives in the backwards universe, as many have long thought. In the first place, I would suspect that at most of the country clubs at which Mr. Rove and his Republican cronies are members, Barack Obama wouldn’t be allowed in the door. Not the front door anyway. ”
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