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In these times, lots of personal posts. Michael Caine recites Rudyard Kipling's IF. I just found this very inspiring.

This is the URL for one of them on YouBoob. Sherman Oaks was the most hilarious series that the HBO/Showtime complex ever produced. Now, it is impossible to find anywhere; probably because its take on PC is just not acceptable these days. I found five episodes on youboob, none anywhere else. Does anyone else remember this series? And, does anyone know where we can find the whole thing?

Watching Easy Rider for maybe the 15th Time; thought I'd share this for comment. The worm seems to have turned.

Just put of by Netflix streaming. Rush was the most solid and cool and allaround awesome band of the past half century. 'Now I didn't ask for no argument'.

Mountain Man Arrested for Trying to Feed Himself, owns judge. In a packed courtroom, 52-year-old Ernie Tertelgte told the judge “I am a living man protected by natural law and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry… You are trying to create a fictitious, fraudulent action.” Charged with fishing without a license and resisting the arrest for fishing without a license, Mr. Tertegte says he’s being wrongly prosecuted for trying to feed himself. Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=521_1384992875#bulFLgdC720Rg2kY.99

Wendy Doniger, a 'Hindu Scholar' at the University of Chicago, has had her book banned, or interrupted, by Indian authorities because it denigrates the Hindu religion. This is a long article and I am still reading it myself, but, having been a UofChicago Student myself in a previous life, I had to go to a 'meet the faculty' dinner and listen to this woman speak; in which, she spent two hours talking about the sexual practices of a village in India she visited. This, I guess, gives her as a UofChicago demigod the capacity to speak for the entire Hindu...