I have watched TED.com for some time now, and I think it is a fantastic organization for what it is. Unabashedly left-wing, it still manages to put out great ideas and discussions. Unlike Al Gore, who is worshipped by these same types and can't bear to have their ides questioned in real life. That's what makes this video a real treat-

http://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_tsiaras_conception_to_birth_visualized.html

I have nothing to add.

I just watched Lars von Trier's "Antichrist."

I... I don't know what I just saw. Um... wow. A clitoris comes off really easily. Like a little salmander. I think we should legalize drugs that help take the pain of movies away.

Done

The United States is over. There, I've said it. I expect it will limp along for some time, and considering how far Terry Fox got on one leg, it may be quite a long time indeed. But, just like a cancer patient in the doctor's office, the facts are what they are. "Sir, remember when you were growing up and weren't full of tumours? Funny thing about the past..."

The current generation is like a young fellow who inherits a thriving business from his grandfather. The old man came to this country with nothing and built a tremendous success for himself that also benefitted everyone else. Now the grandson is in charge and is spending his inheritance on cocaine and skanks from Jersey. Well done, boy.

It isn't all bad. There is a whole group of people as represented by the Tea Party. They are not nearly ready to give it all up yet and accept the sewage of socialism. The American Dream is not dead simply because it isn't American. The desire to be free and to build a life for yourself isn't universal (see Quebec, France, and most of the Middle East), but it is common enough that it can never be fully purged. Not even Barack Obama's teleprompter has that power.

Occupy this...

As of this writing, it appears the Occupy Movement is drawing to a close. As with other movements I could mention, this one especially deserves to be flushed and forgotten. Just as we do with the earth, wind, and fire that is the residue of particularly good chili from the night before, these smelly heroes of public schooling need to be sent on their way before they actually have an impact. I don't believe they actually want anyone to take them seriously anyway. That would mean they achieved something from their own efforts, and that would refute their whole point about the 99% being powerless. Or something about global warming, or the Jews, or whatever it is they could make into a chant. "We are the 99 percent! We don't want to pay our rent!"

This is the most indulged generation in the history of the planet. Even the poorest person in the West has access to wonders and miracles. Do you have indoor plumbing? A toothbrush? A cell phone? The irony is that these people camping in the parks have given these things up to complain about how they don't have anything. I bet the weed stocks are healthy, though.

Envy is ugly at the best of times, a fact lost on the I Want generation. It is impossible to paper over the logical fallacy which states if you have two dollars you owe me one. But then, communism isn't about logic, but power over others. If these people were protesting for equality of opportunity and freedom, they wouldn't be calling for an end to capitalism. Instead, they want control over those who happen to be more productive. In the end, this leads us all in one direction- down the Porcelain Highway.