AdamSmith

2001 man-ape costume! http://peakoil.com/generalideas/the-central-contradiction-in-the-modern-outlook-planet-of-the-apes-vs-2001-a-space-odyssey

Fascinating. Mutation, Selection, And Vertical Transmission Of Theistic Memes In Religious Canons John D. Gottsch The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 jgottsch@jhmi.edu Abstract 1 - Introduction 2 - First Evidence of Memes 3 - First Theistic Memes in Religious Canons 3.1 - Epic of Gilgamesh 3.2 - Enuma elish 3.3 - Law Codes 4 - Theistic Memetic Creation of the Hebrew Canon 5 - Theistic Memetic Mutation in Creation of the Christian Canon 6 - Theistic Memetic Mutation in Creation of the Islamic Canon 7 - Discussion References Abstract A study of ancient and modern Near Eastern religious canons reveals the mutation, selection, and vertical transmission of fitness-enhancing textual units, defined as theistic memes. The earliest recorded theistic memes dealt with human fear of death and defined man's earliest relationship to god. Theistic memes that could theoretically affect fitness through selection and incorporation into religious canons included those dictating beliefs about ( a ) self-awareness in an unknown world, ( b ) strategies and behaviors toward others and within the nuclear family, and ( c ) appropriate sexual behaviors within marriage. Prohibition of aberrant sexual practices such as incest, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, castration, and religious prostitution would have further maximized fitness. A remarkable mutation of the ancient Near Eastern theistic meme of child sacrifice is documented in the Old Testament in the story of Abraham and Isaac. Vertically transmitted theistic memes in the Hebrew canon were largely incorporated into Christian and Muslim religious canons (New Testament and Qur'an). Mutations of theistic memes during vertical transmission into these other canons allowed the same fitness-enhancing stability for the gentile and Arabic populations and are notable for the different strategies used to produce homogenized, orthodox canons. http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/2001/vol5/gottsch_jd.html

Re: LinkedIn, I have a business-oriented profile there and about 1500 "connections," i.e., other LinkedIn members that either I have invited to "connect" with, or who invited me. That just means that whenever I or they post any content or comments on LinkedIn, your connections get a notice of it. The contact information that I entered on my LinkedIn profile was my name, company name (business that I own), my business email address, and my company web site URL. NOT my phone number. If anyone needs my business phone, they can follow the link to my business web site and find it there. But that seems sufficient distance to prevent my phone # from being hoovered up by bots crawling LinkedIn for their own purposes. (My business number is also my personal cell phone -- the only phone # I have. Which I also use to contact escorts, but somehow over a dozen years of hiring ~150 people I have never run into any trouble from this. Lucky me I suppose. Or, in any event -- what, me worry? ) I first put up a profile on LInkedIn about a decade ago. My experience has been that LinkedIn is much more passive in gathering information about you than Facebook, or any of the aggressive third-party add-ons that have metastasized around Facebook.

Hamburger Ass The feeling of fecal matter trapped between the buttocks; refers to the sensation rather than the result (see dingleberry). Lack of wiping or wiping improperly will result in hamburger ass. by Professor English July 22, 2010 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hamburger%20Ass

Fox: New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln By Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what may be the most serious allegation ever made against the former Secretary of State, Fox News Channel reported today that Hillary Clinton was involved in the conspiracy to murder President Abraham Lincoln. The latest charge against Mrs. Clinton was reported by Fox host Sean Hannity, who said that the evidence of her role in the Lincoln assassination came mainly in the form of e-mails. According to Mr. Hannity, “If it’s true that Hillary Clinton killed Lincoln, this could have a major impact on her chances in 2016.” The accusation against Mrs. Clinton drew a strong response from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.—S. Carolina): “There’s been a concerted effort by Hillary Clinton to cover up her role in President Lincoln’s murder. She has said nothing about it. This is bigger than Watergate, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Second World War put together.” Responding to the allegation, Mrs. Clinton issued a terse statement indicating that she could not have participated in Lincoln’s assassination because she was born in 1947. “That’s what she wants us to believe,” Sen. Graham said. http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fox-new-evidence-hillary-killed-lincoln

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RIP. Albert Maysles, Grey Gardens Documentarian, Dies At 88 Emmy Award-winning documentarian Albert Maysles died last night at the age of 88 at his home in Manhattan. Maysles is probably best known for Grey Gardens and Gimme Shelter, both of which he worked on with his brother David, who died in 1987. The brothers won two Emmys, but neither for the aforementioned documentaries—in the 1980s they won for Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic and in 1991 for Soldiers of Music. You may also be familiar with one of their six films on installation artist Christo (count 'em), including 2005's The Gates and Christo's Valley Curtain, which was nominated for an Oscar in 1974. In their obituary for Albert Maysles today, the NY Times recalls their 1994 interview with him, where he told the paper, “Making a film isn’t finding the answer to a question; it’s trying to capture life as it is." Here he is talking shop a few years ago: In February, it was announced that Grey Gardens would be coming back to the big screen following a makeover, and today is the first day of its six-day run at the Film Forum. http://gothamist.com/2015/03/06/albert_maysles_rip.php

Dept. of May Not Be a Joke...

Better that than what hurts the morning after you eat too much vindaloo.

Harper Lee tells inquisitive journalist to 'go away!' To Kill a Mockingbird author sends written rebuff to reporter inquiring about forthcoming sequel Go Set a Watchman The Guardian An investigative reporter in Alabama has become the first journalist to receive a direct response from Harper Lee following her unexpected announcement that she would be releasing a sequel to her much-beloved, Pulitzer-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird this summer. Unfortunately for Al.com’s Connor Sheets, the reclusive author’s response to his heartfelt plea for comment turned out to be an unequivocal: “Go Away!” After Lee said last month, via her lawyer Tonja Carter and agent Andrew Nurnberg, that she would be publishing her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, on 14 July, Sheets made what he described as “repeated attempts” to reach her. He visited the nursing home where the 88-year-old author currently resides, in Monroeville, Alabama, contacted her lawyer and her publisher, and interviewed residents of her hometown. He then wrote her a two-page letter, which he posted to her last week, laying out how he had spoken with Lee’s acquaintances in Monroeville, how “most of them are concerned about you and what is happening with Go Set a Watchman and your legacy”, and how “many worry that maybe you are being exploited”. “No one wants to believe these things, but all we have heard from you since the announcement that you would be releasing a second novel is statements through Carter and your publisher. The people who love your work would love to hear what you have to say in your own words, to hear it straight from you and not through the filter of an intermediary,” wrote Sheets. “I realise you may never receive this letter, and that if you do you will likely crumple it up, throw it in the garbage, and never think of it again … I hope that you’ll respond, even if it’s just to say, ‘Heck no – go back to New York.’ And if not, I do wish you good luck. We are all looking forward to reading the second Harper Lee novel, but only if you really want us to.” Yesterday, Sheets writes for Al.com, he received an envelope containing his letter, “wrinkled and refolded”, with the words “Go Away! Harper Lee” scrawled at the bottom. Information about Go Set a Watchman has been tightly controlled since its existence was announced to the world, with Nurnberg insisting that interested foreign publishers travel to London read the manuscript in person in his office, according to the US trade paper Publishers Weekly. Lee has previously issued two statements about the novel, which was completed before To Kill a Mockingbird and features an adult Scout returning to her hometown Maycomb. The first announcement, which came via her publisher’s press release, saw Lee say that she “hadn’t realised” the manuscript of Go Set a Watchman “had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it”. Describing the novel as “a pretty decent effort”, Lee added that “after much thought and hesitation I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.” The initial delight at the news from her millions of fans around the world was followed by concern that the situation indicated, as Lee’s biographer Charles Shields put it, “an elderly woman who’s getting poor advice”. A second statement was then issued via Lee’s lawyer Carter. “I’m alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions to Watchman,” Lee said. Despite journalists from around the world flocking to Monroeville in an attempt to speak to Lee, or Carter, directly, Sheets is the first to land direct comment – albeit by post, and amounting to what he described as “four words and one punctuation mark scrawled in cursive Sharpie” – from the novelist. “It appears that Nelle, as her friends call her, is very much with it, that she is still lucid and that her acerbic, press-averse side is fully intact,” he wrote for Al.com. “Not only does the handwriting have the same careless curlicues and vague vowels of verified Lee signatures I’ve seen in the past, but it also expresses a sentiment similar to those she has directed in the direction of poky journalists for several decades.” Lee is said to handwrite her responses to interview requests, telling the New York Times in 2006 that her form response would be “hell, no”. “She may have softened her language as she has advanced well into her golden years, but the thrust is the same: leave her alone,” wrote Sheets, adding that he would be buying a frame “for this snippet of derision from a true national treasure”. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/harper-lee-journalist-go-away-to-kill-a-mockingbird-sequel-go-set-a-watchman

And away we go. Supreme Court Sets Date For Same-Sex Marriage Arguments Audio of the proceedings will be made available the same day AP (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments over same-sex marriage on April 28 and make audio of the proceedings available later that day. The gay marriage cases mark the only time this term that the court has agreed to the quick release of audio recordings. But the court is continuing its ban on providing video of its sessions or even live-streamed audio. The arguments on gay marriage have been allotted two-and-a-half hours on the final Tuesday in April. Audio and the transcript of the proceedings should be available on the court’s website by 2 p.m. EDT, the court said Thursday in a statement. The justices denied a request from The Associated Press and other media outlets for the quick release of audio of the argument Wednesday over the tax subsidies that are part of the health care overhaul. That audio will be made available on Friday. The gay marriage cases come from the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, so far the only federal appellate court that has upheld state bans on same-sex marriages since the justices’ 2013 ruling striking down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law. Lawyers on both sides will get 90 minutes to argue whether gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry everywhere in the U.S. Another hour will be devoted to the question of whether states must recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere. A decision is expected before July. http://time.com/3733943/supreme-court-sex-marriage/

Maybe a date with Michael Musto?

So you hijack it yourself. Well done!

And again, last time we meddled in Iran, we got rid of their elected leader and gave them the Shah. Which eventually got us the Ayatollah. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intelligence%29

One dare not wonder what effect the Holy Prepuce would have. ...According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[9][10] in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[11] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of Saturn... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

Netanyahu Feeling Like Trip To US To Start World War III Went Pretty Well NEWS IN BRIEF Politics Politicians ISSUE 4839 Sep 28, 2012 NEW YORK--Following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday that he is "pretty satisfied" with his trip to the U.S. to instigate World War III. "All in all, I think I accomplished my goal of pushing humanity toward the brink of complete and utter annihilation," said Netanyahu, adding that his implicit calls for international military action against Iran, which would ultimately escalate the conflict to an Armageddon-level of death and destruction, went "fairly well." "I think I did a good job laying the groundwork for a nuclear holocaust that will kill billions of people and eventually end the world as we know it. Sounded like everyone really liked it, too." When reached for comment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters that he was "equally happy" with his own efforts to nudge the world slightly closer to a full-blown apocalypse. http://www.theonion.com/articles/netanyahu-feeling-like-trip-to-us-to-start-world-w,29732/