Miff Mole, Log Bearer. Of Tonight's Log. Text version hopefully, but first I'm busy being an End.

http://WorldofEnds.com

Did you ever want to be someone? Be an End.

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World of Ends
What the Internet Is and
How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else.
by
Doc Searls and
David Weinberger
Last update: 3.10.03

There are mistakes and there are mistakes.

Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again.

Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking that:

...the Web, like television, is a way to hold eyeballs still while advertisers spray them with messages.

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Bereli Legrand. George Varga.

Emerging from Reinhardt's shadow ... ... then stepping right back into it, to acclaim French guitar master Bireli Lagrene is, at 36, old enough to have come full circle in a career that saw him become a European star when his first album was released in 1980. He was 13 at the time.

Vince Outlaw's Calendar. He He.

Friday:

Sue Palmer & Motel Swing @ Croce's Top Hat: Boogie Woogie piano and very cool, hip swing (if swing is your thing). Also gets you downtown, which is a scene itself.

Sprague, Kujala, Magnusson @ Dizzy's (http://dizzyssandiego.com/calendar.php): guitar (local legend), flute (international stud), bass (plays with everyone in SD). Probably brazil, latin slant, but probably some straight-ahead stuff too.

Coral Thuet L'Auberge Del Mar: Great vocalist, if you are going to be in North County (say at Pizza Port, for instance) Big Blues Party II 5:00 Etta's Place: If you are interested in the Blues, this is going to be the place to be. It looks like a great line-up and the music will no doubt be rockin'

Saturday: (Hasn't been updated on the Calendar, probably will tomorrow so I'll check then)

Sunday:

Jimmy Smith Tribute Band @ Victors By The Bay: This will be a classic, bluesy show with a legend on Hammond B3 Organ, Jimmy McGriff. A little more coin than the others (about $20, I believe), but will be one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of events.

Miff Mole's Calendar

My mostly news source: http://NYTimes.com. And lots of that via the San Diego Union Tribune.

Jimmy Smith's Ill. More...

On with the show!
6:38:48 PM    comment []  Google It!  

From the right, a fairly closed-minded but nonetheless heart-felt (especially combined with the cute graphic acommpanying it) opinion on the debate over God in The Pledge of Allegiance,

"It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God. Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Why don't we just tell the 14% to shut up and sit down????

If you agree, pass this on, if not delete...

And my response to a group of hopefully non-vendictive emailers of whom I only know a couple...

Why don't we? Because we are all Americans and hopefully intelligent and hopefully open to listen to the ideas of others.

And because we are individual people under God. Or not. I happen to be one of the believers.

But we are not a nation under God. We are a nation (a system of government) under The Constitution.

And the Constitution does not mention God. On purpose. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/dwatson/wannakookyessay.html

"The motto "In God We Trust" on American currency and the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance were not added during the founding of the United States. "In God We Trust" was officially recognized by Congress on money in the mid 1950s. This was also the case regarding "under God" in the Pledge, which was officially added. This was based on rising religious fervor in response to the Red Scare heightened by Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy rose fears among many Americans regarding Soviet infiltration in the country. However, God can mean many different forms of deities, such as the god of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Deism, etc."

This is just one version of why God is on our money and in the pledge. There are as many other versions as there are beliefs in God. Or not.

VO

P.S. I forgot where my delete button was.

P.S.S. I now feel balanced and right in the middle:

From the left, I received from one of the funniest emailers around this War on Iraq IQ Test, which the authors, by my accounts, seem to have failed on at least this question,

"> 17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the > western forces during the Gulf War ?
> A: 0"

To which I replied and referenced, to a group of emailers that I know much better, but fear reprisals from no less (hehe),

"I'm very skeptical of using figures from anywhere (right, left, outer space) that I don't have time to verify myself as much as I'm skeptical of the motivations of the Bush Administration. And I saw one in particular here that I thought I'd add something to...

> 17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the > western forces during the Gulf War ?
> A: 0

I totally remember the Scud that hit US forces in Saudi Arabia (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_events/html/scuds.stm)

The most devastating attack was on 25 February, during the ground war, when a Scud struck a building at Dhahran US base in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 US military personnel.

For me, it only takes one ridiculous (or flat-out false) statement to throw it all out and start over.

Balance is good. Especially after a long day sitting in on someone elses requirement gathering workshop.

Much Love...VO
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