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WOULD YOU RATHER KILL A COW OR A CARROT?

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Would you kill a chicken, a lamb, a sheep, a goat, a pig or a cow with you bare hands?  Probably not.  So why do you think it’s OK for someone else to kill animals for you?  Just so you can have another hot dog or cheeseburger?  Killing a carrot is a lot easier.  And carrots are easier to butcher because there don’t have nearly as much blood and guts and shit and skin and eyeballs and brains and all the nasty, bad-smelling parts that you have to clean up when you kill animals.

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THE THOUGHT YOU CANNOT THINK

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Patricia “Pat” Christine Hodgell (born March 16, 1951) is an American fantasy writer, artist and professor. She taught for many years in the English Department at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, but retired in 2006 to pursue a full-time writing career.

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher known for popularizing the idea of friendly artificial intelligence.  He is a Research Fellow and co-founder at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a private research nonprofit based in Berkeley, California

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A FREE SOCIETY

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (pronounced /ˈædleɪ/; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in1952 and 1956; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination for a third time in the election of 1960, but was defeated by Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. After his election, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador to the United Nations; he served from 1961 to 1965.

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VISIT TO PICASSO

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I own a video cassette copy of a film (The Mystery of Picasso) showing Pablo Picasso painting on a plate of glass, filmed from the opposite side.  As an oil painter myself, I found it utterly mesmerizing!  I was delighted when I found an earlier film on YouTube (in 2 parts below) showing similar footage of Picasso at work in his studio sixty-three year ago, in 1949.  (This film is nearly as old as I am!)

Visit to Picasso is a Belgian documentary film from 1949 directed by Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts. In an effort to capture the nature of Picasso’s creative process, Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish painter to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. This actually predates the more famous art film The Mystery of Picasso (1956) by Henri-Georges Clouzot in which Picasso also paints to large transparent canvases as the director films from the other side. The filming took place in Picasso’s studio in Vallauris. In 1951 Visit to Picasso was nominated for best documentary by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).  Even if you are not an artist or art connoisseur, you may appreciate this film.

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