A funny joke

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."

On the Rooftops of Iran

by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
translated from the Portuguese by Lloyd Schwartz, with Rogério Zola Santiago

Over the starlit rooftops, in Iran,
echoes the agonized voice
of those who only want
to say something.

Not the litany of the muezzins
and their monotonous prayers,

asking no questions, insisting on the same answers.

It's the green song tearing
off the black cloth of the ayatollahs
as if from high above the houses
it would be possible to anticipate
the birth of light
that bloodies the dawn.

Happy birthday Aaliyah

Born January 16th 1979, Aaliyah Dana Haughton would have celebrated her thirty-second birthday today.

An amazing soprano, Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn, New York to Diane and Michael Haughton. Her parents fostered her desire to sing, and enrolled her in various programs and talent searches; including an appearance on Star Search in 1988. She signed her first record deal at the age of twelve, and two years later she released her first album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200 and sold over three million copies in the United States. She would go on to release two more albums, star in two films and won twelve awards; including the 2000 Best Female Artist award for her song “Try Again.”

Her career was cut short in August of 2001, when she died in a tragic plane crash with eight other people after filming a video in The Bahamas. Despite her short career, she is still considered one of the best recording artists of the 1990s, and one of the top R&B artists of our time. I personally consider it an honor to have enjoyed her beautiful voice throughout my youth.

“As we watch this vision of an angel, we will remember her spirit flying free along with the eight others who were with her. They soar together with out eternal love.”


Rest in peace angel

Today is also the fourteenth anniversary where the beloved son of Bill Cosby died at the hands of Mikhail Markhasev. He wanted to teach kids who were afflicted with dyslexia like himself. He would have been 41 today.

Keith Olbermann Special Comment On Gabrielle Giffords Shooting

Rest in Peace Christina Taylor Greene

2011

This year, I decided to only one New Years Resolution. Plain and simply, my mission for 2011 is to make an impact. It's time to start laying the foundations of something meaningful, and to show the world that our destinies are in our own hands!

NerosisMuse Photography

This is the beginning of a new chapter in our journey.