Friday Evening Thoughts

• Obama has caught more top Taliban officials in the last month than George W. Bush caught in the last 6 years of his administration.
• Glenn Beck is losing sponsors crazy fast. How long can he keep it up before he has to adjust his approach or go off the air?
• The winter olympics are great. So damn exciting. BUT They are also so absurdly 1st world/Eurocentric/Northern Hemisphere. It's pretty unreal. 
• Chatroulette is disconcerting. Further proof that instead of being out meeting people we would rather sit at home and randomly interact with total strangers. It's all too safe for me. You're not putting anything at all on the line by experiencing other people that way and it's the putting of stuff on the line that strengthens us. Still, it sounds fun. I'll probably end up doing it. 
• It is too easy to get through the day without really having to use your brain. We need more productive and accessible ways of spending our time. 
• Pictures really are worth a thousand words.
• I thought Johnny Weir was amazing last night. So much emotion in the way he moved. 
• Been going crazy on Hot Chip for the last week or so. So good.
• There is NO way that we are the only forms of life in this universe. This video will expand your frame of thought and make you feel miniscule.
• My experience of the world feels so broad and encompassing. It is beyond comprehensible that there are 6.6 Billion other people across the world who probably feel the same way. How do you go about living your life knowing that? I believe that many of the political and cultural rifts that separate us today are based on each of our responses to that question.