Buying Buckets

Here is Sheed explaining science to a ref:



Here is Sheed last night:

Detroit down by three with 1.4 seconds on the clock, and the opposing team has the ball. This is how you buy a bucket. Think it is luck?

Here is Sheed practicing before a game. His coach used to complain about him wasting practice time with these shots. He shoots these before every game.

I can't buy a bucket

Hey team! I am continuing my run as New Orleans greatest Spinoza scholar. I don't understand the decisions that have been made. Correct that: I understand the decisions ("no" is rather simple) but not the logic behind them. In the end my brothers and sisters, I may just have too much funk and flavor for any institution. God bless us all, but I am not a desirable student.

I need something to happen

Professor Romance needs some adventure. Not social adventure. Not friendship adventure. Not basketball.
A straight up adventure. Something to get my swerve on.

N.C Storm Kills Two Baby Bald Eagles

CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 3 (UPI) -- A rainstorm that swept through North Carolina this week claimed the lives of two baby bald eagles recently born at the Carolina Raptor Center.
The center's executive director told the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer that the two infant birds likely drowned or succumbed to hypothermia during Thursday's storm even as their mother attempted to save them.
"Unfortunately, we had a huge rainstorm, and nature took them back," Alan Barnhardt said.
The pair of baby bald eagles had represented only the third and fourth of their species born in North Carolina, following a pair of eagles born last year to the same parents.
The baby eagles, who were born just last week, were especially susceptible to the storm as their parents' nest had been built on the ground.
The unusual location for the nest was due both to injuries to the parents and a lack of predators at the manmade location.
The paper said that while center officials did witness the unfortunate incident occur, the locale's policy is not to interfere with the eagles' natural parental process.
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The Passion can bring forth tears

Making a woman cry is like trying to pee. It is just going to happen.

Poets don't know jack

I was so excited to find another poem dedicated to the S-dog I overlooked a pretty big oversight on Jorge Borges part.
Jorge writes:
"Time carries him as the river carries
A leaf in the downstream water.
No matter. The enchanted one insists
And shapes God with delicate geometry"

This is how people who don't really grasp determinism understand it. They think if universal causation is true, then they are like a leaf, carried by forces beyond their control. The image suggest a separation between the self, and causal necessity. A better metaphor would be an eddy in the river and the river. There is no eddy independent of the river. It is a mistake to even think about an eddy subject to the forces of a river--the eddy itself is a result of the river. It is not the self versus nature--there is only nature doing its thing.