http://blog.eyepassport.com Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:56:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 15689 If I have bid you “Rise, and make all human haste!” I really must apologize (for such a human waste), then turn a Father’s cheek. I was surprised to find at such accomplished heights (however bright and vanishing) the headway of my Earthly Tribe -- columbia crew http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/sts-107 13496 Fear can short-circuit freedom. From Abraham Lincoln's suspension of civil liberties during the Civil War to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II to the McCarthyism of the 1950s, our nation sometimes has lost sight of its commitment to freedom. Fear does that. Little wonder, then, that security concerns ... http://blog.eyepassport.com/things/free-speech 13410 Because modern societies are so large, bringing together people from widely varied backgrounds, value sets, beliefs and customs, they have given rise to universally subscribable cooperative systems for defining what things are. Labels, in other words. To participate in a society is to understand its labeling systems. And because large, ... http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/12 13334 Irons gives his best performance on film (and, indeed, the best performance of the ’80s by anyone) as twin gynocologists who disintegrate after an actress disrupts the delicate balance of their relationship. Radiates a deep and numbing chill as it chronicles the descent of the twins into madness and drug-addiction, ... http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/dead-ringers 14687 virtual cash | epassporte http://blog.eyepassport.com/things/virtual-cash 13229 "In a forest pitch dark, glows the tiniest spark..." http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/969 This chick who looks just like Paris Hilton (Natalie Reid) has posed for Playboy Magazine... more http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/natalie-reid-is-not-paris-hilton 10557 "…because love is other-concerned, has no hierarchy, and does not cherish self-vindication, having guidelines for intimate relationships seems necessary in the modern world; it seems people are falling “in” love “with” each other every minute... more http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/tassy-pink-is-pink In Japan, the word anime is used to refer to all forms of animated film from around the world. While some anime is entirely hand-drawn, computer assisted animation techniques are, in recent years, quite common. Storylines are typically fictional; examples of anime representing most major genres of fiction exist. Anime ... http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/japanese-girl-on-the-bus 7875 http://blog.eyepassport.com/people/exuberant-girl