Comments on: The Daily Agenda for Monday, September 3

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:01:46 +0000

Dublin City Council has voted in favour of marriage equality (purely a symbolic gesture, I think, but still good to see). TRiG.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:44:43 +0000

Ellen DeGeneres has in her life taken a lot of grief because of her name, yet still makes people laugh.

By: pax58

pax58 — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:05:43 +0000

On this labor day I remember my father, who died a year ago in May with black lung, just like his father before him. West Virgina miners stood up to corporate Amercia even as it had the federal govt send troops to gun down miners who demanded safer working conditions, better pay, and decent benefits. Out of my four children two are medical doctors, one is a nurse practioner, and the fourth a lab scientist. My children and I have benefited greatly from the hard work of my grand dads and my father, may they rest in peace.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:30:35 +0000

Codyj said “the man is tightening the cylinder head bolts on a steam engine,the smaller round casting on top is the valve body(which lets the steam in and out of the cylinder,to do its ‘work’) Its not a steam pump.”.

A steam engine is a steam pump.

By: Hue-Man

Hue-Man — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:34:34 +0000

LGBT retirement home mooted for B.C. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09/02/bc-lgbt-retirement-home.html
(The comments are a combination of anti-gay hate and people who understand the vulnerabilities of people in nursing homes.)

“I’ll never end up there.” except 4 of my 5 grandparents (divorce/remarriage) ended up in nursing homes, one with Alzheimers.

Ill treatment can be subtle and not so subtle: missed medication, missed diaper change, failure to change bed linens, verbal abuse, abuse by other residents, etc. I hope it’s still several decades away but living in a historically homophobic town, it concerns me.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:29:32 +0000

Ahhh, degeneracy, atavistic, and a few other words that sound like they ought to mean something.

The more things change….

By: jpeckjr

jpeckjr — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:29:10 +0000

The beauty of that photo is not in knowing precisely what kind of machine it is.

The beauty of that photo is in the melding of the worker’s form with the machine’s form. His body is completely encircled by the cylinder head, so much so he appears as part of the machine. The two co-exist — the machine needs the man in order to work properly; the man needs the machine in order to work.

It does, of course, raise questions of who is powerful — the man, the machine, or the men who own the machine and have the man do the work.

Thanks for posting it.

By: codyj

codyj — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:54:38 +0000

the man is tightening the cylinder head bolts on a steam engine,the smaller round casting on top is the valve body(which lets the steam in and out of the cylinder,to do its ‘work’) Its not a steam pump.