One of those weird issues that I devote my thinking time to is the intersection between values and architecture. So I was very excited when I came across a blog called Architecture and Morality (Thank you Marginal Revolution).
Unfortunately, the blog does not live up to its name as much as I would like. Most of Click Here to continue reading.
Most people don’t realize how many people risk their lives on a daily basis just so that people will not be inconvenienced. Electrical transmission capacity in the US is so tight that a lot of people would be seriously inconvenienced if lines were taken down for maintenance. That means some people have to work on high voltage lines while they are live.
This video gives you an idea of how they go about it.
Okay, so technically this is a typhoon not a hurricane. But I could not resist the irony.
People who watch the oil markets have been worrying because they say that one strong Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico could send gas prices sky high in the US. Now there is a Category 5 typhoon heading towards Click Here to continue reading.
I had heard about this girl before, but I had always assumed the tale was exaggerated. After all, you would have to have such an improbable amount of control over a unicycle, rolling globe, and kickups. But then the other night I found this video. It’s one of those videos I can hardly believe even as I’m watching it. Rather than explain the tricks in detail, I’ll just let you watch it.
Makes me wonder how much truth there is in the other “big fish” stories that circus performers tell.
This week’s poem was written by Gerard Manley Hopkins and it is called God’s Grandeur. For some reason, it is the poem that came to mind when thinking about this week’s essay.
In American, the word conservative can mean so many things in a political context as to be practically meaningless. There are conservatives who believe in relatively open borders and who celebrate immigration and there are conservatives who want a wall around the entire country. There are conservatives who want a strong federal government that will fight evil both here and abroad and there are conservatives who would prefer that the federal government barely exist.
One thing that seems to unite them all though, is a disdain for that false civility know as political correctness. That is what this week’s rant is all about.
For this weeks essay we have selected The Silverware Thief’s tale of a trip to the past. The Silverware Thief has that rare gift of making you feel like you have been to where he has been and seen what he has seen.
When I saw this blog post, I thought of The Silverware Thief. If he was a passenger in her car, he would have died laughing
I think this is the first time I have seen good quality video footage of Alexander Kiss. It’s easy to see why he’s become so famous throughout the juggling community. I have heard a lot about him in the past, so I knew he was a very smooth and technically advanced juggler, but I didn’t Click Here to continue reading.
As one of our rants of the week here at the Ethereal Voice, we selected an article by Joel Salatin called, “Everything I want to do is illegal.” It is all about how regulation keeps the little guy out of the market place.
A recent NY Times article demonstrates that this is no accident…..
The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.
Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too.
The Agriculture Department regulates the test and argued that widespread testing could lead to a false positive that would harm the meat industry.
A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn’t have the authority to restrict it.
Basically, the meat industry is afraid that Creekstone is going to get a competitive advantage by testing all their meat and they are trying to use the Government to stop them. Shows how free market the Bush administration is.