Overture:
...BILL MOYERS: Let me show you an excerpt from the speech President Obama made on Wall Street last month, September. Here is the challenge he laid down to the bankers.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior...
Roman Eagle Standard: SPQR = Senatus Populus Que Romanus
Exactly how are we different from the pagan Roman Empire?
We have our panis et circenses, bread and circuses, to soma the minds of the populace , we are pretty much pagan in our cult of...
Consciousness is the set of behaviors we commonly associate with it: language, music, structured movement, mathematics, etc.
Whatever is not associated with one or more of the set of conscious behaviors is unconscious...it has no "mouth" to speak to...
It has been long noted that various insurgents and other ne'er-do-wells, often including - alas! - the poor shlubs attending Afghan wedding parties, tend to be dealt with in groups of...
