Today is the Tomorrow you worried about Yesterday
It's 4:45 A.M.and is just too darned early to be writing anything of any import. So I will go ahead and publish this, then add to it throughout the day, whenever the mood strikes me.
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I posted the following paragraph in a previous blog entry, but I think that the distinction of which it speaks is an important one, and therefore deserves some repetition -- so here it is:
According to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies,"Moslem and Muslim are basically two different spellings for the same word." But the seemingly arbitrary choice of spellings is a sensitive subject for many followers of Islam. Whereas for most English speakers, the two words are synonymous in meaning, the Arabic roots of the two words are very different. A Muslim in Arabic means "one who gives himself to God," and is by definition, someone who adheres to Islam. By contrast, a Moslem in Arabic means "one who is evil and unjust" when the word is pronounced, as it is in English, Mozlem with a z.
To me, this indicates that there are millions of
Muslims in the world. And there are far too many
Moslems.
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WORD FOR TODAY
acumen
Noun
quickness to perceive; shrewdness.
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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Born Oct 15, 1844
Died Aug 25, 1900
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and aphorism.
Nietzsche's key ideas include the "death of God", the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be. His influence remains substantial within philosophy, notably in existentialism, post-modernism, and post-structuralism, as well as outside it. His radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth has been the focus of extensive commentary, especially in the continental tradition.
Born Oct 15, 1942
Age: 69 years old.
Carole Penelope "Penny" Marshall is an American actress, producer, and director. After playing several small roles for television, she was cast as Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom
Laverne and Shirley. A ratings success, the show ran from 1976 until 1983, during which Marshall was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her performance three times.
She progressed to directing films such as Big (1988), the first film directed by a woman to gross in excess of $100 million at the U.S. box office,
Awakenings (1990), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, and
A League of Their Own (1992). In more recent years, she has produced
Cinderella Man (2005) and
Bewitched (2005), as well as episodes of
According to Jim (2009). She most recently directed two episodes of the Showtime original series
United States of Tara.
Born Oct 15, 1959
Age: 52 years old
Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret Ferguson) is a British charity patron, spokesperson, writer, film producer, television personality and member of the British Royal Family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, to whom she was married from 1986 until their divorce in 1996. She is often popularly referred to as "Fergie", a common nickname for people named Ferguson.
Born Oct 15, 1937
Age: 74 years old.
Linda Lavin is an American singer and actress. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her Broadway performances.
Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began acting on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in
"It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination in
Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work in television, making recurring appearances on
Barney Miller before getting the title role in
Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later in other TV work.
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Robin:
"We'll have to do this upside-down."
Batgirl:
"Men, always doing things the hard way."
