Yet more keen links one might want to share

[Pamela]

I simply must find out where one gets one's hands on planes like these. There is a MiG 15 and an FB-111 near my house, rotting in the weather. One of these days, I wil ask the owners where they got them.

[Gravdigr]

Scrap aluminum is $.50/pound here.

[Gravdigr]

Median Age Of First Marriage, by sex, and state.

[Gravdigr]

There may be hope for the world yet...

[xoxoxoBruce]

As the KKK diehards are reduced, or at least the ones willing to come out, the rest of the citizens must pitch in to help them demonstrate.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

There may be hope for the world yet...

I love this story. Thanks Grav.

[xoxoxoBruce]

There are nice people doing nice things for reasons known only to themselves, all over the world. If you aren't involved, or at least know someone who is, you probably won't hear about it unless it's a verrrrry slow news day. Sex and violence sells better than human interest.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by BigV

I love this story. Thanks Grav.

You are welcome.

It hit me right when I needed a good dose of good.



ETA: I particularly liked the part where the complete stranger said she was a kinder person just for having read about that girl.

[BigV]

True. All the more reason to acknowledge Gravdigr shedding light on it and thus brightening my day.

[footfootfoot]

I was thinking about how when I look at the "train wreck" news stories, I see more of them suggested when I look at news. People have often talked about how the only news that gets reported is the awful stuff, but I wonder how the face of news today might change if people studiously avoided all the negative disaster rape horror shit and just went after positive and upbeat stories. Would we eventually see a shift in news reporting and human behavior? There was a study recently on FB that had something to do with a similar idea, if I'm not mistaken.

Along the lines of the idea that reporting school shootings and such creates copycats and glorifies the perps, the inverse should hold true. What if we put our collective attention on the positive?

Perhaps as a cellar-wide not challenge, per se, but experiment. Suppose we all decided for a week or maybe two, to consciously avoid reading or psoting any train-wreck type news and instead focused on what is great? Not in a glurgy or make me gag pollyanna way, but sincerely good stuff.

I'd be really curious to read how that might affect us individually and as a group. What if all the "What I'm pissed off about threads were left alone and instead we started to focus on what we are grateful about?

Lately, I've begun to be really fed up with hearing complaints coming out of my mouth, I can only imagine how others must feel who are subjected to it.

Just a thought.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe on the net where you pick and chose your stories from the headline, but TV-Cable-Print news have not gone away just yet.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe on the net where you pick and chose your stories from the headline, but TV-Cable-Print news have not gone away just yet.

Each of those is still equipped with an off switch or can be put down. There's a galactic-shit-ton of bad food out there, but I'm still in charge of what I put in my mouth.

[xoxoxoBruce]

People don't do that, not human nature to shut off the news if an unpleasant story pops up. You extol possibilities, I describe realities.
Go forth, climb the highest peak, plant the banner of civility... you won't even make the 6 o'clock news.
Oh, you went where the wild things are. That's nice, this will pay the rent, how?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

People don't do that, not human nature to shut off the news if an unpleasant story pops up.

I stopped watching televised news altogether. Never see it. I got real tired real quick of the newsmouth telling me how and what to think about each and every story, or not reporting the story at all if they couldn't figure a way to skew it toward their agenda. I only listen to my local AM radio noon news, almost daily, read by a marble-mouthed fuck who is an embarrassment to our community.

I read my news mostly from YahooNews (yeah, I know). Where I can pick and choose what I read.

[lumberjim]

Eye on the TV
'cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavour
It happens to be like;
Killed by the husband
Drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son
She used the poison in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies

Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'cause I need to watch things die
From a distance

Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all need it too, don't lie
Why can't we just admit it?
Why can't we just admit it?

We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
Neither the brave nor bold
The writers of stories sold
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing

I need to watch things die
From a good safe distance

Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same so
Why can't we just admit it?

Blood like rain come down
Drawn on grave and ground

Part vampire
Part warrior
Carnivore and voyeur
Stare at the transmittal
Sing to the death rattle

La, la, la, la, la, la, la-lie

Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men.
Pull your head on out your hippy haze and give a listen.
Shouldn't have to say it all again.
The universe is hostile. so Impersonal. devour to survive.
So it is. So it's always been.

We all feed on tragedy
It's like blood to a vampire

Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies
Much better you than I