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"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch" Jack Nicholson

"I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man." Joan Crawford

"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch." - Bette Davis

"I do get called a bitch quite often. What I do NOT get called is pushover, stupid, sweetheart, dear or doormat. Works for me." - Rebecca M. 

skylmingar

You are a foil fencer.

Foil is a weapon of calculation and passion. You glide easily between attack and defense. You can flick to the back or thrust to the chest.

What Kind of Fencer Are You?

Passar, foil er það sem á best við mig. Epee er ágætt, en hef ekki enn prófað sabre.

Búkurinn er það sem maður á að hitta í foil. 

trash in space

eða gömul gerfitungl etc.. Talið er að af c.6.000 gerfitunglum séu aðeins um 800  virk.

European space operations centre.

 

via cynical c blog. 

cult-ið í Texas

alveg merkilegir hlutir, hverju heilaþvottur getur áorkað. Hér er viðtal við konu sem ólst upp í svipuðu umhverfi og því sem er í fréttum nú.

I was one of 13 children raised by our father and three mothers in a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is not associated with regular Mormonism (LDS). FLDS followers practice the "Principle" of polygamy, which is now banned by the mainstream Latter Day Saints. The idea behind polygamy in the FLDS is that a man must have at least three wives in order to go to heaven. Young girls are "placed" with husbands by the church leader, or Prophet. These spiritual marriages are not legally binding, but in the eyes of FLDS members, they are sacred. If a woman serves her husband faithfully, he may invite her to join him in the celestial kingdom of heaven. But should a woman disobey the Prophet and refuse a life of polygamy, she will be damned to eternal hell.  

 

En ég spyr; afhverju eru bara myndir af konunum í fréttum, hvar eru allir karlarnir sem voru þarna líka??

Barnabók sem útskýrir ´fegrunaraðgerðir'

Sjá frétt Newsweek.

It features a perky mother explaining to her child why she's having cosmetic surgery (a nose job and tummy tuck). Naturally, it has a happy ending: mommy winds up "even more" beautiful than before, and her daughter is thrilled.  

"My Beautiful Mommy" is aimed at kids ages four to seven and features a plastic surgeon named Dr. Michael (a musclebound superhero type) and a girl whose mother gets a tummy tuck, a nose job and breast implants. Before her surgery the mom explains that she is getting a smaller tummy: "You see, as I got older, my body stretched and I couldn't fit into my clothes anymore. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better."Mom comes home looking like a slightly bruised Barbie doll with demure bandages on her nose and around her waist.  

þegar maður verður þreyttur á sumum ameríkönum sem og öðrum

hehe, hér er mikið lagt uppúr innantómum kveðjum...

Annars er maður kallaður ýmsum nöfnum, jafnt konur sem karlar sem tala svona, t.d.:

Sweetie

Sweetheart

Honey

Hon

cutie

baby

babe

dear

darling

miss

mam

-eflaust fleiri.

hmmm...

hvenær gæti það orðið veruleiki?

Forrest Gump

Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?

Forrest: Who I'm gonna be?

Jenny: Yeah.

Forrest: Aren't I going to be me?

Ný útfærsla á Dauðasyndunum 7

Tengsl syndanna og hvernig nýjar syndir verða til. 

via haha.nu

hvað er lauslætissvipur?

gæti einhver bent mer a thann svip?

Andlitið ákvarðar samböndin

lengi tekur sjórinn við

gömlum lestarvögnum fleygt í hafið rétt fyrir utan New York...frábært.... En með þessu búa þau til gervi reefs sem að fiskar sækja í.

In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift open-ocean fish, like tuna and mackerel, that use the reefs as hunting grounds for smaller prey. Sea bass like to live inside the cars, while large flounder lie in the silt that settles on top of the cars, said Mr. Tinsman, the Delaware official.

States have experimented with other types of artificial reef materials, including abandoned automobiles, tanks, refrigerators, shopping carts and washing machines.

 

Myndasyrpa.               Frétt NYTimes hér. 

Kvikmyndabærinn Wilmington

Bærinn sem ég bý í er þekktur fyrir sjónvarps og kvikmyndaver. Þekktustu þættirnir eru "Dawson's Creek" og "One Tree Hill." Niðrí miðbæ er kaffihús(Karen´s cafe) sem er eingöngu fyrir þessa þætti og sker það sig úr sem miklu flottara en allt þarna í kring. Ég hef ekki fylgst með þessum þáttum en finnst það merkilegt að þeir séu teknir hér í þessum 100.000 manna bæ.  

 

 

Video með myndum af miðbænum og svo ströndinni í lokin.

Martin Luther King, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”

 

 

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the Vietnam War. Audio.

This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording.

Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967.

 

Ræða sem á alveg eins vel við í dag. 

''I´m disapointed with America'' - ''Racism and militarism''  

via cynical c blog. 

 

Hugvekja dagsins

Marcus Borg 

Sexism more Acceptable; Racism runs Deeper

The Question: Which "ism" is more entrenched in America, sexism or racism? Which should religion address?

Both racism and sexism continue to be present in the United States, though in different ways.

To begin with sexism, sexist language is more culturally acceptable than racist language. An example from the presidential primary campaign: a man (I believe in South Carolina) asked John McCain, "What are we going to do about 'the bitch'?" As I recall, McCain did not challenge his use of the word. If a questioner had used the "n-word," it is hard to imagine that any candidate would have let that go unchallenged. In New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton was heckled, "Iron my shirts." Again, it is hard to imagine a racial stereotype being used in public in a similar way.

There are still many conservative Protestant churches whose official position teaches the subordination of women to men and who refuse to ordain women. Though it is not clear that Catholics teach the subordination of women, they also do not ordain women. I know of no church body today whose official position teaches the subordination of people of color or that refuses to ordain people of color.

Yet I think racism is more deeply embedded than sexism in our culture. Men are not afraid of women, but many white people are afraid of black men. Economic statistics indicate that people of color as a group are more discriminated against than women. Our prison population is disproportionately made up of African-Americans - which surely indicates that many, especially young black men, feel that there is little opportunity for them and become angry, desperate and sometimes violent. Inner city schools in many places, largely attended by people of color, are often woefully inadequate. Though racism is more subtle than it was fifty years ago, its legacy continues to be powerful and oppressive.

Christians should be concerned about both racism and sexism - within their own congregations and denominations, and also, and importantly, in the larger society. God's passion is the well-being of the world, not just the well-being of Christians. And so Christians should support social and political policies that combat both racism and sexism.

Ástin

Helen Fisher mannfræðingur talar um ástina. Áhugaverðast fannst mér það sem hún talar um í lokin en það eru slæm áhrif þunglyndislyfja(serotonin-lyfja) á ástina og kynhvötina. Þegar serótonin er aukið þá lækkar dópamínið í heilanum og fólk missir kynhvötina og ástarþörfina. Talar um það á c.18 mín.

 

Stjórnun og sjálfsblekking

lásum bókina Leadership and self deception í hópnum um daginn. Er ansi góð, ekki bara fyrir stjórnendur heldur alla sem vilja skilja betur hvernig fólk og maður sjálfur functionar.

Hér á Google er hægt að lesa hana.

The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance.This straightforward book explains how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns. The authors demonstrate that breaking out of these patterns leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.

Charlie bit me!

Dauðinn

myndasyrpa af fólki fyrir og eftir andlát. Þar sem dauðinn er stór partur af mínu starfi finnst mér þetta áhugavert en mörgum gæti þótt þetta óhugnalegt.

sjá The Guardian 

 

 

 

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living.

hvernig lítur feministi út?

margir virðast velta því fyrir sér. Hér er brot:

 

Leikvöllur fyrir eldri borgara

er víst eitthvað sem kemur frá Hong Kong en er nú í Bretlandi, Þýskalandi, og Kanada. Hvenær kemur þetta heima? Gaman. Góð hreyfing líka.

Sjá frétt Daily mail.