New Yorker illustrator Maira Kalman has chronicled a year of her life through photographs, paintings and text in her new book, The Principles of Uncertainty. Kalman sat down with the BPP this week.
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October 19, 2007
New Yorker illustrator Maira Kalman has chronicled a year of her life through photographs, paintings and text in her new book, The Principles of Uncertainty. Kalman sat down with the BPP this week.
All animals with the exception of man become adults as soon as they can have offspring. That's what has always distinguished children from adults. Now they look like adults, they act like adults, their hormones have kicked in so they want to procreate (have sex) but we say "No, you are a child and will be a child until you are 18 yrs. old. 'Human beings' have got to be the stupidest critters on earth. What a mess we have made of things! All this suppression of adulthood has had the opposite effect.
We are quickly becoming a world of wall to wall people after killing off most of the worlds' animals and plants. What's left? War!!!
NPR, why haven't you brought up over-population? Doesn't it seem like the 'real elephant' in the room? Of all the major problems in the world, over population is at the core. Why do we all let the hypocritical 'Church' rule? They don't pay taxes (they should) yet they get to say where my tax dollars go. What's wrong with this picture? Is everyone asleep at the wheel? They obviously don't think their god has any power because they are always trying to do what they want and think (his) work should be. One last thing. Why doesn't anyone stand up to the charge that 'the media is liberal'. Yes? And? What's the point?If it weren't there would be only one voice. Where I come from that's call 'fascism'. We are turning into a fascist country. Free speech has become un-American. If I send this email can I expect the thought police at my door? or tapping my phone?
I say thank God for NPR, John Stuart, Colbert and Oberman.
A. Harris
Who is playing that cool chamber music version of "Gigantic"?
The Pixies: The String Quartet
http://www.amazon.ca/Pixies-String-Quartet-Tribute/dp/B0002Y4TRY
Thanks Stewart! Odd & interesting.
You might also like the Section String Quartet's cd: Tribute to the Flaming Lips.
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