“24 Hours of Reality” will broadcast a presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday,

Reality! … Really?

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind*

Rolling Stone magazine’s Matt Taibbi, during the Democratic presidential primaries in 2007:

All love stories are beautiful at the beginning, and what we’re witnessing now is the beginning of a new one: America and Barack Obama…For most of this campaign season, I doubted that Obama really was that new something. Now I’m not so sure he isn’t. Whoever Barack Obama is, there’s no doubting the genuineness of his phenomenon. And maybe, who knows, that’s all that matters.

Taibbi last Tuesday:

I was hours early for a flight and stuck in a relatively small terminal crammed with people. Only one area in the whole wing had empty seats; an unused gate that contained a TV blaring the CNN broadcast of Obama’s Labor Day speech at full volume. So it was either sit underneath a full-volume broadcast of our fearless president bellowing out his latest hollow promises, or the hellish alternative: retreat to gates full of screaming five year-old children, all of them jacked up on sugar and bawling their eyes out because it was the end of Labor Day weekend and their cruel parents were dragging them home from Disneyworld.

I ended up choosing the screaming children.

Michael Arczynski — The 45-year-old sports enthusiast from Vancouver was a senior vice-president of Aon Corp.’s Manhattan office. He and his wife, Lori, who was raised in Montreal, had three children after their marriage in 1990. Lori gave birth to a fourth child, named for his late father, after the attack. Arczynski, who loved to ski near Vancouver and spent a lot of time with family in Vermont, also left behind three daughters from his first marriage.
… more.

Outraged British woman exploited by the universe, abandoned by her fellow man:

A mother from Faversham who found a dead fox in her garden was outraged to be told to put the body in the wheelie bin (garbage can). Carol Whelen, of Springfield Avenue, found the animal in her garden on Sunday, August 7, but despite calling Swale Council, her housing association AmicusHorizon, the RSPCA and an organization called Fox Protection, she found no one willing to remove it.

Please, can’t somebody do something?
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Tomorrow is the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy. Many stories will be told. This is one of them. You can learn more about Welles Crowther here.

Brothers in Arms:

These brothers in arms, whether they come from the urban jungles of New York, the farmlands of Saskatchewan, or the pastoral villages of Wales, have all become the 9/11 Generation. What many fail to recognize is that in the United States at least, this warrior generation is beginning just now to enter the political arena at home … and like the soldiers of the First and Second World Wars, it will have a profound effect on the direction of the nation.