Gene Lewis Perry

Video is full of great advice with real world examples… density, variety, people on display, and NO surface parking lots!

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” — Winston Churchill

There’s plenty in the way of this happening, but at least they’re thinking big. The United States used to not be afraid of grand national projects. Let’s hope we rediscover our courage to try.

London to Beijing in two days on new high-speed rail network

Passengers will be able to travel by train from King’s Cross to Beijing in just two days on trains that travel almost as fast as aeroplanes under ambitious new plans from the Chinese. The network would eventually carry passengers from London to Beijing and then to Singapore. It would also run to India and Pakistan, according to Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China’s domestic high-speed rail project.

Scientists supersize quantum mechanics : Nature News
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

from 2004

VI.
we are so fragile that the next breeze may hurl us away
to never know each other
or that, like ghosts, we pass through
with only a shiver to remind us of all we have forgotten
our wisdom grows in slow time
deep beneath the surfaces of life

V.
there is beauty in a grey horizon
and in a broken bottle
and in a pothole filled with muddy rain
all things dream
and are dreamt in turn by others

IV.
today I play a mad prophet
casting nets and webs and snares into the ether
when they come back empty I am satisfied
(you can tell by the gleeful cackling)

III.
amidst strange eyes and empty conversations
a rope twists skyward off a single dangling cigarette
it pulls me up to safety

II.
torn by tenderness
we rest in the crook of a leafless tree

I.
fragility sustains us like smoke rising above a fire

This is why electing judges is a terrible idea. I don’t know the details about this case, but I’m absolutely sure that justice is not well served by a 200 word blog post rousing a bunch of people with similar lack of knowledge to make angry phone calls.

Fee to Overthrow the Government: Five Dollars
South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Overthrow 1951 Law Requiring “Subversive Agents” to Register With Government

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