The subject has been burning hole in my psyche for a week now. Well, longer than that, I suppose. Aspects of it have been simmering for a few decades, but now that the two most notable politicians in the country at the moment have stirred the pot the bubbles have risen once again and the steam must escape.
News reports of Randy Pausch’s death are circulating now.
If you haven’t heard his lecture or read his book you can get a start here and here. And if you’ve heard the lecture but not read the book, I suggest you get the book. Yes, it of course contains the lecture, but there is more there. It is also somethnig you can pass on to others.
Enacted or not, this shows a scary mindset on the part of those in charge.
By Matthew Hickley
Last updated at 12:28 AM on 16th July 2008
because that’s where most of the clowns are. Would have been a perfect traveling circus.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.
