Blue Truck, Red State

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

25 Maps

An unverified, but mildly interesting little vid:

Monday, August 10, 2015

What Makes a Good Party? (1950)

Do you give careful thought to planning your parties? A skillful host ensures that everyone has a good time with well-chosen refreshments and games that everyone can play.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Sunday Drive: Dream a Little Dream of Me

Friday, August 7, 2015

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Isn't Brit Romantic?

Kate Arnell schools us in the language of love, British style:

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Stonewall

To be released September 25th. Seems way melodramatic to me, but see what you think, fellas.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Sunday Drive: Vivaldi, Summer

As recomposed by Max Richter for the album on Deutsche Grammophon:

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Julia Child: French Fries

Julia shows how to make les frites and other potato delicacies in this episode of The French Chef, first broadcast in 1972:

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

A Brief History of Everything

A mind-boggling summary by astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City:

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu