Head Slowly Exploding

So, I caught up in a research project. I have a Friday deadline.

While writing the last section of a research paper, I found myself in need of a little more research on religious exemptions concerning same-sex marriages. After feeling my mind slowly go numb from reading article after article, I found the following sentence and decided it is too good not to share:

"The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in Lewis v. Harris is likely the most significant gay rights case since Goodridge, largely because it was decided by the supreme court of a major state."

After reading this, of course, I thought to myself: who the hell thinks New Jersey is a major state?

If your interested, the article in question is from: 30 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 939. I'm too tired for a full citation. Fail me.

An Important Annoucement

When an RTS blog post goes up, it's kind of a big deal. Because yeah. We're that sexy.

Wednesday Musical Tribute

This here's a two-parter, and Harrogate is wagering Readers have never heard these songs. They are back-to-back installments off of The Kinks' (these days) much unlistened-to double album, Preservation: A Play in Two Acts (1973).

The first song is entitled "Flash's Dream."



The second is called "Flash's Confession"



Supadiscomama: You will find something hauntingly familiar in the main guitar riff of this second song.

Fun stuff, these songs. Meant to be listened to carefully. Coffee makes it better.

Sunday Musical Tribute

Upon his return Harrogate sees that much has taken place here. He hopes to speak to M and Paperweight soon, to express his delight for them. He also plans a response to Megs' probing post about the whole Green Thing.

But as decompression continues, for now Harrogate submits this cover of "Suffragette City" by none other than Boy George.

A good cover? Harrogate reports, you decide.





Oh, and heh. If this has put ye in a Boy George State of Mind®, then get your fill by checking this wondrousness out:

Friday Musical Tribute: A Happy Anniversary Shout-Out to Supadiscomama, who is Indeed Crafty, and Just Harrogate's Type

"A Profitable Enterprise"; Or, No Longer Meh about Clapton

Here is Slow Hand at his best.

Monday Musical Tribute

Sit back, sip the coffee for a few minutes, and reflect on Beauty.

Oxy?

Before we handle the annual APB for Harrogate, we must address this question, which deserves to be taken seriously:

Oxy? Where are you?

Needlepoint Rhetoric

This strikes Harrogate, first of all, as a manifestly true statement that this "craftster" artist has now immortalized, fittingly, onto a bedroom pillow.

Kenneth Burke would likely have no objections to it.

A friend, Harrogate will not reveal which one, just revealed the existence of this image, which by the way emblemizes a wondrous validation of the truth that ye must never assume things about a given Rhetorical Situation. Now and forevermore, we may associate Needlepointing and Orgies.

A gift for Oxymoron (and everyone else)

Sunday Night Musical Tribute

Hello all. Unlike Roof Almighty Harrogate believes strongly in straight-up here's a cool song posts.

Here's a song Harrogate has listened to at least once a day since he discovered its existence early last week. This badass's name is Shawn Mullins. The record is Honeydew, the sublime song is called "Cabbagetown." Roof, you'll like this Song. Harrogate's gonna go ahead and chalk it up in the label, in fact,

Harrogate will be buying this record at the nearest opportunity.

This is one of those songs, you just sit back and let it happen.

Headline of the Day

From CNN: "GOP senators say Obama off to bad start."

I am quite shocked by the headline in the way I have been shocked to hear conservatives defend #43.

The article does have this gem:

"If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC's "This Week." "I know bipartisanship when I see it."

Let's see is we can understand this. The GOP engaged in a process to bankrupt and break the company, er... country, which must have been deliberate as the actions of the GOP were so inept. However, when no one wants to listen to the GOP because they continue to adhere to their basic principles, they cry foul.

Lindsey Graham, man of principle.

Sunday Musical Tribute

Happy Sunday, Situationers and Readers!

Gotta. Gotta. Gotta check this out. Paperweight in particular may flip his lid when he hears the manifest heat in this, one of Harrogate's new favorite songs.

Breaking News....

President Elect Obama to be sworn in on Lincoln Qu'ran. Developing.....

Wherein Paulo Freire Speaks for Harrogate's Mom

Dialogue cannot exist without humility. The naming of the world, through which people constantly re-create that world, cannot be an act of arrogance. Dialogue, as the encounter of those addressed to the common task of learning and acting, is broken if the parties (or one of them) lack humility. How can I dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own? How can I dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from others--mere "its" in whom I cannot recognize other "I"s? How can I dialogue if I consider myself a member of the in-group of "pure" men, the owners of truth and knowledge, for whom all non-members are "these" people" or "the great unwashed"? How can I dialogue if I start from the premise that naming the world is the task of an elite and that the presence of the people in history is a sign of deterioration, thus to be avoided?

Bad Santa

Just in time for the holiday, a pair of writers from the Chicago Tribune have published a book featuring photos of terrified children sitting in Santa's lap. Truly heartwarming.

For the record, yes, I have laughed heartily at pictures like these (including one of my nephew), but I really don't understand why a parent would subject his or her child(ren) to this. We took Supa-T to see Santa at the mall (where else?). While he was happy to chat with St. Nick and even accepted a candy cane from him, when it was suggested that he sit in Santa's lap, Supa-T held on to me for dear life with his arms and legs. This kid could be one hell of a horseman.

P.S. If you do a Google image search with the key words "scared of santa," you will discover that lots of people are eager to share these sorts of images. You can find a slideshow here.

Atheist Scrooges....Film At Eleven

CNN reports that Atheists in Olympia, Washington have struck back against a city Nativity scene as a group posted a sign that states religion is a superstition.


I wonder how long it will take for OReilly or Hannity to call out the atheists for their "insensitivity."

CNN reports that there are similar signs and messages in other parts of the country. I guess, all I can say is, "Joy to the World, The War has Returned. Let' O'Reilly's voice pronounce....."