Central Scrutinizer

Don't know if this is best posted here or Someone Else's Song, but this is from the Trib: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder pens Cubs song Chicago radio stations and sports bars have begun spinning "All the Way," a Cubs-themed ditty written by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder at the request of Cubs legend Ernie Banks, Billboard.com reports. The track features lines like "Our heroes wear pinstripes / pinstripes in blue / give us a chance to feel like heroes too." It was recorded last month during Cubs fan Vedder's solo concert at Auditorium Theatre, according to Billboard.com. The song will be available

Understood.

It reminds me of everything at Disney World. Temporarily permanent.

But don't we, in life, seek validation? Confirmation? That what you see, think, hear, feel, touch, taste resonates outside of your single soul?

Then why do we have them? You can explain what they are, and that's enough for you. But why? Why are we wired -- literally -- to experience the devine?

I understand what fireartoflife was saying, but I think this is very well put. However, as far as the bible is concerned, if you consider that it has 66 "books," others that were "thrown out," that these stories have gone through rewrite after rewrite, editing for personal, political and spiritual reasons, I think it's something that has a history in and of itself; by its very nature is not the work of an enlightened few.

Are you kidding? She's going to get her own talk show and run that bitch Oprah off the air.

You know between Bush and the Congress, this country is falling off the table into protectionism. Dems sitting on free trade, Bush and his policies having to drag down and rope the economy like a bull. Scary, scary stuff.

This coming from a guy whose family knows more about war than anyone else in the United States of America. Of course she knows about energy -- she can see all of those potential oil fields from her house. Come to think of it I bet McCain knows more about hyperbole than anyone else in the world.

I just saw that Palin's First Husband is refusing to testify in Troopergate. Glad that that Maverick

Riffing on Stephen Wright. Alright.

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Twain...us-Stranger.htm

Living south of Atlanta, the parallel of the Olympics there and the permanence of what was left is significant. Olmstead is interesting, but I just wonder if we didn't see his thoughts and compulsiveness through a biased narrator. Maybe the problems that befell the operations when he wasn't around, the unreliable subordinates, the committees and peers that just don't understand his vision ... could it be that his vision was as fleeting? That he couldn't pin it down himself and that the "I know what is is when I see it" approach has been used by many who are in over their heads. I throw this

TheMaker abides.

The problem I have with this is that people don't start with "god" and then seek to rationalize it. People experience life and they try to make sense of it. Sure, religions offer their "way" as an option, but someone who is a "seeker" (a very *in* term for churches doing marketing to build their membership and budgets) would go through an approach towards that faith just like the person asking about the dragon. In a sense the person may ultimately decide on the best dragon story. Or they could get really pissed at all his neighbors for trying to deceive him and firebomb them when they sleep.