Danny from Wisconsin

I did, tragic that violence has to be inflicted during a peaceful protest

Of course, and you?

Pope Leo XIV urges release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.”

Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

All we are getting is wet from his golden showers

I’ll take it

Hope he goes broke and back to South Africa

There it is…

What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are “This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.”

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger on how the parallels between quantum physics and Hindu philosophy illuminate the mystery of consciousness and what makes us who we are in an interconnected universe www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/03/e...

To drunk to remember

The word 'orange' was the word for the fruit before it was the word for the color.

Myths, Facts, and Poetic Truth: Amy Lowell on Legends as a Lens on Our Elemental Limitations and Powers “Legends… are bits of fact, or guesses at fact, pressed into the form of a story and flung out into the world as markers of how much ground has been travelled.”

Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...

WI Supreme Court upholds Gov. Evers partial veto extending school funding increases for 400 years • Wisconsin Examiner Justice Jill Karofsky wrote in a majority opinion that the partial veto was within the power given to Evers in the state constitution.

A split Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto in the last state budget extending school funding increases for an additional 400 years was within his constitutional powers. @bspears.bsky.social reports. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/18/w...

This is great news for our kids and schools, who deserve dependable state support, but our work is not done.

We cannot afford for Republican lawmakers to once again fail our kids and schools in our next budget. In the Year of the Kid, we must invest in K-12 education.
www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...

Wisconsin's adventures with line-item vetoes Laws are like sausages...

Democratic Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding for the next 400 YEARS in Wisconsin by crossing out a few numbers in a bill to change it from “2024–25” to “2425.”

The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.

What Makes Great Art: The Single Most Important Element in Creative Work “Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.”

A century ago, a forgotten Scottish writer and mystic offered the simplest, deepest definition of creativity and what makes a great work of art www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/08/a...

This is fascinating: Improvisation and the quantum of consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/06/i...

What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep “It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality…

What birds dream about – the surprising science of how evolution designed REM in the bird brain so that we too may have our double lives at night www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/02/b...

The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with the painful pressures of actually being close, how to forge a bond tight enough to feel the…

Schopenhauer's "porcupine dilemma" is the simplest, most profound thing I've encountered on the eternal problem of negotiating intimacy and independence:

Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing.

In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:

opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...

FRJ

In others hand picked kgb minister

More money to ACLU

Donald Trump is an archetype?

Escher on creativity, with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/e...

Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals “No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”

"No amount of effort can save you from oblivion."

A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994

Good thing lying is not a sin..oh wait..

Cancel culture caught ya

Shut meta down

China condemns JD Vance’s ‘peasants’ jibe Beijing hammers US vice president as lacking “knowledge and respect” in escalating feud.

China today branded US Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”