Stand Aside BBC and CNN. Al Jazeera's the Best News Channel.

Robert D. Kaplan on Why I Love Al Jazeera.

sports update

Ellen now plays on the William Smith women's rugby team. This photo was actually taken with the shortest shutter speed possible and she's still a blur:

So I heard this paradox today, thought I'd pass it on

So there's a barber in this town whom shaves everyone in town that doesn't shave themselves. So the question is, does he shave himself?

Two things of interest

Funny look at what one man chooses to do with his last 30 seconds before the world explodes

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And I'm not one for politics or history but... something seems wrong about this womans idea about hitler

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Poetic and creative picture

I showed this to mike earlier and then thought I'd like to share it all with you, picture explains itself.

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Don Draper wants Public Option-Debate Over

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Free movies for those in Mt Lebanon

A blog I follow a lot has a code for a free screening of Zombie Land in Mt Lebanon, I hope if anyones around they take advantage of it, as I thought it was a great zombie flick.
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Outrage in Boston

Boston Outrage Over Hyatt Housekeeping Firings

End of an Era

Mary Travers dies at 72.

What's Going on at Johns Hopkins?

Baltimore Sun: Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword, police say

Now, for the first time in two centuries: sea-aged beer

For the first time after two centuries, beer aged at sea will be commercially available again.

James Watt, UK's BrewDog founder, was given an 1856 "Brewer’s Handbook" as a present last Christmas. The handbook contained a 200-year-old recipe which included aging the beer at sea.

Inspired by the handbook, Watt spent two months aboard a mackerel trawler on the North Atlantic with eight barrels on-board, each containing beer brewed from the original recipe.

Says Watt, "Today the term IPA has lost its meaning and UK brewers mainly use it to describe beers which are neither particularly hoppy or high in alcohol, Duecher’s IPA at 3.8% being a prime example of the complete butchering of the style. It’s sad to see the great IPA heritage in this country come to stand for nothing more than a sparingly hopped low ABV blonde session.

We wanted to take the style back to its roots and we have created the first genuine IPA for 2 centuries. Going beyond the realms of what would normally be deemed possible in order to deliver is what we’re all about at Brew Dog: making real beer accessible to the masses."

Unfortunately, the beer is not cheap -- £10 a bottle (about $16).

HAS NO ONE HEEDED MY WARNINGS!

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Would anyone in their right mind think its a good idea for a robot to take your blood? Especially since only 78% of the time it gets it right, thats 22% of the time your likely to die because you just got stabbed... by a robot... who is programmed to steal your blood. Has anyone seen I-robot, or oh I don't know a little film called, THE MATRIX. Whomever came up with idea should be stripped, flogged, and burned as a lesson for those foolish enough to dabble in such terrorism.

Movie recommendation. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Best documentary since Murderball?

Pittsburgh's Finest Couples for a Cure

Tom and I are being honored next Saturday, the 19th.  We have been challenged to a friendly contest with the other couples to raise money for cystic fibrosis.  Not ones to back away from a competition, we thought in these last few days we'd turn to our family to ask for donations.  Thanks for any and all help.  We have to knock out this disease that's running through the Harvey genes!

Tech Assistance in the Middle Ages

Art Squatters/ Columbus, OH Independents Day

Here's my first foray into the Harvey Blog. Conveniently I can now advertise for a show in downtown columbus 25ish grad students are putting on on September 19. There's also a bunch of bands, performers and local artists.

I'm performing in a pretty pathetic absurdist play that I wrote over the summer. To sum: Harry Potter, Art and Call and Response in one performance. If nothing else, come take a look at beautiful, kinda vacant downtown columbus.

Art Squatters

Location and Time:

September, 19 2009

6:00pm-10:00pm

Downtown Columbus

• 20 East Broad St.:
Artist: Hannah Givler
THERE WILL BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE 1ST FLOOR OFFICE ONLY AT THIS SPACE ON THE 3 OPEN NIGHTS.

• 32 N. High St. Former CVS store.
Artist: Jenny Fine
• 34 N. High St. Lobby is active during business hours.
Artists: Nicole Debrabandere & Sara Gallo
THERE WILL BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE BUILDING LOBBY ONLY AT THIS SPACE ON THE 3 OPEN NIGHTS.

• 72 N. High St. Former Madison’s Dept Store.
Artists: Janet MacPherson & Julie Greenberg
• 74 N. High St.
Artist: Sara Berens.
• 80 N. High St. A Deli Building.
Artist: Matt Cherubini
• 84 N. High St.
Artists: Micah Daw & Kyla Toomey

• 37 N. High St. Former Columbus Chamber of Commerce Building
Artists:
Elizabeth Wilson
Doo Sung Yoo
Laura Weiser
Paul Simmons
Will Tucker
Matthew Dietz
Christine Jackson
David Staniunas
THERE WILL BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THIS SPACE ON THE 3 OPEN NIGHTS.

• 11 E. Gay St. Modern Finance building..
Artists: Molly Burke, Julie Ward, JR Gaultieri,
THERE WILL BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE 1ST FLOOR ONLY AT THIS SPACE ON THE 3 OPEN NIGHTS.

• Hub Federal Building: corner of Rich and S. High
Artist: Josh Penrose
THERE WILL BE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE LOBBY AREA OF THIS SPACE ONLY ON THE 3 OPEN NIGHTS.

• 23rd N. 4th St. rear: alley with overhead door
Artists: Matt Keida & Dan Harvey
Used for performance only on gallery hop nights and September 19th.

• Location to be announced (TBA)
Artist: Zepher Potrafka

Today's Gospel

The Gospel today was the story in Mark in which Jesus heals a deaf-mute. It also just so happens to present us with one of the few instances in the Gospels when an actual Aramaic word is quoted: “And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, ‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be opened.’ And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.”

Our sermon quickly cut to the metaphoric significance of the deaf man. People are deaf to the Word of God and, to hear it, their ears must be opened.

So, I was listening for what message people were not hearing and needed to be opened to: perhaps God’s acceptance and forgiveness, the command of love, the call to service, the empty promise of material things, the virtue of humility, or some other common Biblical theme. But, no. Today, our pastor skipped over that. The best he could do for examples of where the divine voice cries out from the depths and yet falls on deaf ears were the evil of co-habitation before marriage and the ban against non-Catholics taking Communion at Catholic weddings and funerals. As someone once said in another context: "If this is your god, you have a severe ontological problem."

“If Jesus Christ came back today and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.” Woody Allen

Art Squatters

In case any of you are in Columbus, OH in September or October and looking for something to do (and Dan hasn't already sent you info): Art Squatters

TNR on Military Intervention

The New Republic has a pretty great book review on two opposing schools of thought regarding the United States and humanitarian intervention. The question asked: "Can a liberal be both opposed to imperialism and devoted to human rights?"

An excerpt:

"...[T]he essence of the responsibility to protect is an insistence that the fate of people matters more than the sovereignty of governments. Traditionally, Evans explains, "what happened within a state's borders and its territorial possessions, however grotesque and morally indefensible, was nobody else's business." "In the history of ideas," he simply and accurately adds, "there have been few that have prevailed to more destructive effect."

Well, Mother Earth is Screwed

I am glad that the stupidity of people hasn't yet cease to amaze me. U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks trial on global warming..

Popsci blogger post an opinion on the LA times article, if you want a good laugh read the comments- just stop before the stupidity begins to degrade your intelligence.

Correction-I understand why Chamber of Commerce wants to stop emissions regulation-money but this trial method is pretty stupid.

Canadians Strike Back!