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Is Stealing Ever Good?

Is there ever a time when stealing is good?

Yes, the inspired stealing of imagination should always be encouraged.

There is no unoriginal theft left.

Some call stealing inspiration, but if you see or experience something and then change or employ those experiences in your life — you have effectively borrowed and stolen the thoughts of others and I wholly encourage that effort.

I am not condoning plagiarism, but I am supporting the opportunity to consider and use ideas that are not your own because there are no original thoughts left in the world.

We are ignited by the shared memories of others and we must honor the covenant of those tendrilous relationships.

The theft confirms the collective genius.

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Helping a Math Dunce

I have never been a math genius. Or even a math sub-genius. Or even a non-genius. In fact, I’m a bit of a Math Dunce. I need your help in solving a math problem.

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Jena is No Selma and the Politics of Boredom

The march on Jena, Louisiana yesterday is being compared by some in the Black community as a “modern day” march on Selma, Alabama in 1965 and Jena is serving as a political sounding board for Jesse Jackson to accuse Barack Obama of “Acting White” for not supporting the “Jena 6.”

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O.J. Simpson and the Genius Criminal Mind

O.J. Simpson is back in our face again!

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Beware the Proclaimed Genius

If genius is born in collective ciphers then we need to be wary of those who proclaim their solitary and self-important Genius.

The Self-Indulgent Genius is a warning sign that kowtowing and deference are expected in any exchange of memes or communicative dyads — and to not show deference is to be scorned and mocked and wanted smaller.

When Genius is dealt to you — respect it and honor it and keep it quiet unless and until it is discovered by others — and always run from those who foretell their own place in history by trumpeting a quiet gift.

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Mel Torme Sings Paul Williams

Here’s a great video memory from 1976 to cool things off and chill down a melting world: Mel Torme singing a Paul Williams classic, “I Won’t Last a Day Without You” — and the last held note will make you cry if you have an ounce of human left in you.

Paul Williams is a Good Nebraska Boy who hails from Bennington and he wrote songs — when melody meant something — like “Evergreen” and “Out in the Country” and “Close to You” and “Rainy Days and Mondays” and “Rainbow Connection” and “An Old Fashioned Love Song” and “You’re Gone” and many others as well as the theme from “The Love Boat.”
SuperGenius in action.

As an added Weekend Bonus, here’s Jazon Mraz singing Paul Williams’ “Rainbow Connection.”

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Genius Born in Collective Ciphers

Genius is born in collective ciphers — and the brilliance in the cooperative remains hidden until there is an expressed peril to group stakes — then an emergency encryption of memes and forms of protective thought are ignited, risking decoded secrets and nothingness.

 

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Die Sopranos Die!

I have never been a big Sopranos fan. The acting on the show has been generally pretty good, but I never drank from the Sopranos well of dedicated fanaticism and I missed the first few years of the show when they originally aired.
I am now caught up on all the episodes and — after watching last night’s dreadful “Final Episode” — I am left, once again, wondering what all the fuss was about over a mediocre show.

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Normal Discrimination and Average Power

Michel Foucault is one of those certain talents where a quirky mix of genius, talent and savantism all congeal in the mind of one person to shed the powerful glow of meaning and context on the rest of us One of Foucault’s passions in life was his love of words and his research into the power of labels.

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The Dinosaur at the Door: You Own Your Body But Not Your Genes

We are all living under a misconception we decide our lives and own our bodies while the opposite is true.

The law decides our lives.

Our bodies may belong to us, but the law also governs the genetic code that creates us.

Patent Law and not the shared, necessary, Common Law of Universal Humanity rule our genes.

In a riveting Op-Ed piece in this week’s New York Times, author and creative Genius Michael Crichton — Jurassic Park, ER, etc. — broke our hearts the day before Valentine’s Day with the following news:

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