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Another week.

George Bush got his ass handed to him.
Donald Rumsfeld got the can.

Reporter: "If you had any do-overs to do in this race..."

GW: "You don't get to do them."

Reporter: "Or if Mr Rove had any do-overs to do in this race..."

GW: "You don't get do-overs."

GW: "As far as do-overs ...." he trailed off, looked down, paused, and gestured to his advisers.
"Talk to them."

"We've been trying to figure out for three years how to improve our Iraq policy. They've been trying to figure out for 12 hours how to respond to the election debacle, Rumsfeld falls into the latter category more than the former category."
-- Michael O'Hanlon

Britney divorces, Federline files for custody.

A day after Britney Spears asked for a divorce, Kevin Federline filed court papers seeking sole custody of the couple's two children.
...
"Kevin is prepared to go the distance in order to do what he feels is necessary to protect and safeguard the children and will not be intimidated or dissuaded from pursuit of those goals," Michael Sands, spokesman for Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said Wednesday.

Google continues to swallow terabytes of data and Mari-Chan spreads more bizarre Japanese cuteness by the day.



It's all about inevitable accelaration and I get slower every day[1].
It's all about biological survival while hoping for opportunities to keep on opening doors.

The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive.

The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful."

[...]in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive.

Through [...] permanent or temporary by-passes there flows [...] something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.

The brain needs oxygen.



Music: Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within

[1] Hopefully not tomorrow, though - first half marathon this season. *deep breath*