constitutional celebration

Time for a constitutional amendment party!!!
Maybe it's just that I've had my first cup of coffee from a clover machine, but I'm swayed and convinced by this article that it's time and ready for change:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901/founders-mistake/3

superficiality

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

Some day i'll write a computer program to come up with new analogies and it will tell me, "I have a dream that my four offspring will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the material of their bodies but by the content of their character."

I'm just saying - they're not really conscious if they've just copied it off this blog...

acting

maybe actors are born by never learning, intuitively, to act. These simplest of people always show what they are feeling with direct, un-second-guessed earnestness. When somebody puts them into a situation, they baldly display their reaction to it. When a director says, "now you're in love," they know what that feels like and don't worry too much about the meta-level motivations, ironies, hidden information, etc, which people (me, at at least) take into account to help their position in social situations.

Of course, then there's the other way, where actors have an intuitive grasp of how to manipulate people by showing them certain feelings and information as opposed to others, and then they hone that skill through practice. This kind of actor would probably be more flexible, though it would take them many more years before they were ready to give a really convincing presentation.