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While Hazare is a social activist to the core and has managed to keep political and religious hues off his movement, Ramdev happens to be a 'spiritual guide' and a professed supporter of Saffron India – often identified with the parochial concept of Hindutva. And that very fact may keep the progressive forces away from the fight to bring the huge amount of black money back to the country – billions of dollars to be precise, stashed away in the tax havens across the globe.
Incidentally, the UPA government had earlier sent a written assurance to Baba Ramdev on enacting a law on black money and declaring it as national asset for which a committee would be set up. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, along with Union ministers Kapil Sibal, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Subodh Kant Sahay, also held a marathon meeting with Ramdev, trying to persuade him to give up his indefinite fast. The talks failed to reach any breakthrough though, with the yoga guru insisting that all his demands must be met with.
But unlike Hazare's campaign against graft, this one lasted even less than 24 hours as the police made a pre-dawn raid at the Ramlila Ground on Sunday and broke up the fast, using teargas and batons. Ramdev was detained and later flown to Haridwar in Uttarakhand, the centre of his global yoga business.
Ramdev gets Hazare's support
Of course, there was no lack of mass support when Ramdev launched his fast with a yoga session at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. Leaders from other communities were present as well, and Anna Hazare himself supported his cause.
Speaking to reporters in Ralegaon Siddhi, his native village, the Gandhian explained that there were no differences between him and Baba Ramdev over the corruption crusade. Accusing the government of cheating civil right activists on the issue of Jan Lokpal Bill (a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that will probe corruption cases), he said, "I support Ramdev. When we went on fast, the government conceded to all our demands. But now that we have sat for the Lok Pal Bill, they are backing out of the fundamentals agree upon. So, we will fight together against corruption."
Will 'saffron hue' mar the cause?
Although Hazare has gone out of his way to support Ramdev, the omnipresent 'saffron politics' may very well create fissures between the two camps as is apparent from the very beginning. Quite a few leaders of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) were present at the Ramlila Maidan while Sadhvi Ritambhara, member of both RSS and VHP and one of the accused in the Babri Mosque demolition case, actually joined the fast and shared the dais with Ramdev.
Some of the leading figures of Anna's camp find it quite disturbing. Activist Medha Patkar denounced the Ramlila Maidan show as a publicity stunt and Swami Agnivesh maintained a conscious distance from the yoga guru while supporting his cause.
"Communalism should be kept away from this fight against corruption," he said and went on to clarify the nature of Hazare's movement. "Anna Hazare has kept his fight against corruption away from politics. We don't want to see the civil rights group divided. Anna Hazare is very particular about keeping people like Sadhvi Ritambhara away from the dais."
But even such scathing statements did not deter other prominent leaders like Kiran Bedi (an ex-IPS turned social activist) and Justice Santosh Hegde who were very vocal in their support.
"The cause of Baba Ramdev is the same as that of Anna Hazare. We met Baba Ramdev before he sat on dharna. We are with Baba for a common cause; it is a fight against corruption. We should see the cause and not the colour," Kiran Bedi has told CNN-IBN.
While Bedi has tacitly admitted the entry of the Hindutva colour in the people's movement against graft, Justice Santosh Hegde has been more precise in defining their stand. "Presence of communal forces does not matter till it is confined to fight against corruption. Background of the person is not important if it's fight aganist corruption. This shows that people from all walks of life are joining the campaign," he told the Press when asked about Sadhvi Ritambhara active involvement.
Ramdev, has, however, drawn flak from Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati who thinks that Baba should "clean up his own house" first as he has already built an empire worth Rs 11,000 crore. "The reality is that Ramdev is trying to mislead society," the religious head had said. His accusation may or may not be justified. But one must not forget the fact that none of these religious leaders would like it if the Baba manages to steal their Hindutva thunder and impress their followers in due course. After all, fight against graft will never lose its popular appeal and the moral overtone will always be more acceptable to secular people who shy away from mere Hindu communalism of any sort.
It is not clear either, whether and how the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) intends to play the Ramdev card in a bid to put the UPA government in trouble. As of now, the BJP is extending moral support to Ramdev's cause and hopes to get mileage out of the anti-corruption movement. But the BJP may not want to be directly associated with the yoga guru as it will politicise the whole movement and may actually eat into its vote bank, should Ramdev choose to join mainstream politics. The senior leadership may not be too elated if Ramdev garners enough strength to dictate terms.
Crusaders shedding elitist garb?
Whether India is back on the Gandhian track and taking its fight against corruption as seriously as Bapu took his political crusade, only time can tell. Meanwhile, one can take note of a few interesting points that distinguish Ramdev's all-too-simplistic 10-point charter of demands.
For instance, how realistic will it be to slap death penalties or life term on the corrupt or abolish the land acquisition law altogether, instead of modifying it as per our current requirements? In yet another dramatic but fuzzy demand, Ramdev wants a recall of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 as it makes it "easier for corrupt people to transport, carry and store large sums of money for the purpose of illegal and corrupt dealings." Such demands may have popular value but will certainly fail to impress economists and law-makers.
And that is exactly where the discordant note strikes. I do not question the right of a spiritual guru to lead a nation to a die-hard fight against corruption. My only doubt is: Are we adequately prepared to do so? Changing the current order of things calls for an in-depth understanding of the socio-economic nuances. It also requires drafting a foolproof alternative that will have enough credibility. And finally, we should be able to take responsibility for our actions, instead of letting lose popular sentiments and then sit back to watch the unsavoury consequences.
While Hazare's movement has essentially drawn the elitist and the middle class, Ramdev seems to command a bigger following of aam admi (common man). And that calls for noon-clear analysis, well-thought-out strategies and the power to inspire people from every walk of life – irrespective of their professional and political calling. It also calls for a change of heart at the grassroots – so that every common man will abide by the rule of the law and will have the courage to say 'no' to corrupt practices that rule our everyday life.
It's a difficult and dangerous task – both for the pioneers like Hazare and Ramdev and their growing number of followers. Especially in a country that ranks 87 out of 178 countries on the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index and where the tentacles of corruption are spread far and wide in all horizons of life. The bigger the moolah, the deeper goes the root of corruption, not only in terms of black money or ill-gained land but even then when you and I take the policeman to the nearest alley and 'negotiate' terms for drink driving or jumping lights or for talking on the cell phone while driving. Nominal offences, do you think? Nay, monstrous offences that kill thousands of people every year. And all because we are a corrupt nation without a thought for others. Let the elitist, the middle class and the grassroots people join hands and fight for a common cause. Let the leaders of the anti-graft movements lead us to the right path. Once we accomplish that, a better India will be awaiting us tomorrow.


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We anticipate innovation in things like medicine, science and technology. But we don't have a framework for, and often times there's opposition to innovation in the spiritual realm. But why? In his book, Spiritual Innovation, Cole asks how we got where we are, what God might be saying today, and what that means for our future.
Spiritual Innovation is the idea that, if God is infinite, then sure- ly there is more to be discovered about who God is and how He's working. We'll explore how our narrow criteria of how and where we can experience God keeps us from finding him, and we'll begin to see how, when we open ourselves up to Him, we discover Him in the most unexpected places.
I hope we open ourselves to the possibility that there might be so much more for us than we ever imagined. At the very least, I hope you discover a new freedom for yourself—the freedom to dream again and dream bigger. But ultimately, I hope for something so much more—that your dreaming will manifest itself as noticeable, tangible shifts in the world around you.
This is the cultural shift I'm talking about. Do you know you have the power to change your surrounding atmosphere?
So often we discount our ability to walk into a room and shift the atmosphere. We understand the power of music to do this. That's why there's background music playing almost everywhere we go. We understand that the way something sounds or smells or feels (like temperature) can change the entire attitude of a room. But we forget we have this same power. Something as simple as a smile can shift the reality around you, and even more so the power of the Holy Spirit revealed through you. This is the concept of Spiritual Innova- tion—that you have the ability to access the unseen, to participate in the work of God, and to radically shift the world by living with supernatural wisdom.
There are people who will read that statement and think, "Hm. Right now, I'm questioning whether or not God even exists, let alone if He's working and wants me to participate in it." Maybe you're one of those people. Well, I think you're in exactly the right place to be encountering this book. I have so many friends who have given up on God and I don't blame them. We've been fed a powerless, impo- tent religion in the form of American Evangelicalism. But it's time to take back the power our faith has always had from the beginning. It's time to see a new reformation that demonstrates the power of God in ways we've never encountered before. It's time to allow his love and grace to drip from us and into the world around us.
It's a new way of thinking about your faith. This is Spiritual Innovation.
I pray this book will help launch us into a different cultural reality— one of asking questions and expecting more. One in which we, filled with the mind of Christ and the Holy Spirit, contribute to society, rather than continually tearing it to pieces. One in which we no lon- ger anticipate and hope for cultural destruction but lead the way in helping our earth resemble heaven.
Have you ever felt like your life with God was powerless; like there is supposed to be more? Have you ever wondered why there seems to be such a gap between the lives of the people you see in the Bible and your life today?
It was a rainy, late summer evening and I had walked a few blocks through the Florida night to a bar down the street from my house to meet some friends. When I got there, the friends I had come to meet hadn't yet arrived but another friend, Nick, was sitting by the pool table with some guys. I walked over to say hi.
Nick and I had known each other for a long time. In fact, we led worship together in the first year of our friendship. By the time I ran into him at the bar, we were still friends, but found ourselves in different places of belief.
Somehow, the conversation shifted quickly from small talk. Nick looked over at me and said, "You know, the things you believe as a Christian can be reached by many other means—other religions, other philosophies."
"Yep." I acknowledged. He was right. There are a lot of wonderful people who believe all kinds of things apart from Christianity—who are doing amazing things to make the world a better place. Then I went on.
"But I don't believe that's the way it's supposed to be. The Church has lost something over the last 1500 years or so. Following Christ used to include a powerful demonstration of something otherworldly—for the sake of God's glory and the revelation of the kingdom of heaven on earth. Today, that's what's missing."
I frequently have conversations with people who are disillusioned with their experience with the American Evangelical Church, conversations like the one I had with Nick. I share many of the things you'll read in the coming chapters of this book, and the people I share these things with often respond in a similar way as Nick: "Yeah, but what you're talking about isn't Christianity. It's something else."
In some ways that comment is true. Many people who are practicing the Christian faith today are living a sterilized version of what it means to follow Jesus. Honestly, most of the time, that's my reality too. The picture I paint in this book is a life of immense power, liberated from the systems we've created to make us feel safe and to control other people. But do I live that kind of life? Not always.
So, Nick was right. The life I'm talking about seems far removed from our modern Evangelical Christian experience; but in that, I believe it becomes all the more Christian.
The longer I talked with Nick, the more I started to uncover an idea I think is really important: People (myself included) don't need the Jesus of Evangelical Christianity—at least not the way he's been presented. Think about it: he's an impotent character of good ideologies. He has been stripped of power, sealed in a completely "knowable" package, and delivered to us as a product we can control. It seems we've taken a faith meant to be wild, confusing, mysterious, tangible, active, and powerful and reduced it to something manageable and comfortable.
But when I read the Bible and encounter stories about the sea parting and bushes burning and paralyzed men being healed with a touch—I have to ask myself: doesn't it seem like we're missing something?
When Jesus was around, he lived in a culture of stories, questions, parables, and a recognition of something more than the cerebral. Often we see people coming to Jesus to ask questions and yet he doesn't answer them. Rather, he tells them a story and those stories leave people with more questions than answers. To me, there's something really beautiful about this. Jesus' stories don't satisfy every intellectual curiosity. They don't provide black and white answers. Instead they leave people coming back to Jesus again and again, longing for more.
After telling the parable of the sower,
The disciples came to [Jesus] and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?"
He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
(Matthew 13:10-13)
Jesus knew the hearts of the disciples were postured in such a way that they could derive spiritual truth from the parables he told. In contrast, Jesus went on to explain that those who didn't understand failed to do so because of the callousness of their hearts. In other words, they came to Jesus not to discover the depths of a relationship with God, but to be validated in their own understanding.
We're quick to assume we're on the side of the disciples, but ask yourself honestly: Do you want a relationship with God, or do you want to be right?
Those seeking to satisfy their own understanding will dismiss Jesus' words as frivolous, while those who hang on his words, who wrestle with them, will be able to discover the deeper realities in them. When we believe the best about something—when we look for the divine in it—we discover God there. On the other hand, when we approach it with disdain or preconceived expectation, we miss the unexpected possibilities of discovery.
This is the entire story of Jesus. The religious, with their deep understanding of Old Testament scripture, expected a militant Jesus who would come to forcefully deliver the Jews from the hands of the Romans. The problem was, when the Messiah showed up, they missed him because he didn't meet their expectations.
On the other hand, the New Testament church—the early followers of Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit—knew life was about discovering the unknown depths of God. The book of Acts records some of the fruit that came from their posture of discovery. Thousands came to know Christ, people were healed, and the power of the Holy Spirit was tangibly present in and through the lives of the people. But religiosity is the enemy of a relationship with God. Religion attempts to recreate meaningful spiritual experiences through the analysis and systemization of circumstances. God wants to do something new in each person everyday.
If you've ever been to an improv show, you've probably seen a bad improv scene. You know, the ones where people get on stage and just kind of stare at each other awkwardly. Then someone says, " Uhhhh… hey… what's up?" The other guy says something like, "Oh… not much. Just… uhh… hanging out." Then guy number one replies, "Cool." And they stare at each other some more until, somehow, the scene is put out of its misery.
Well, some well-meaning individuals along the way created some "rules of improv" that are in place to help prevent such a situation. The rules are as follows:
1. Don't deny.
2. Don't ask questions.
3. Don't dictate action.
4. Don't talk about past or future events.
5. Say "yes" then say "and."
The list goes on.
In his book, "Improvise," Mick Napier tells the story of how this whole thing came about. At some point he says, there was the first improv scene. Some people were in front of some other people. They started acting out a scene. The people watching began to laugh. It was electric. They kept going! The audience laughed more. The scene ended. They walked off stage, looked at each other and said, "Wow! That was awesome! What just happened, and how can we do it again?"
Soon, other people tried to recreate the experience but something just wasn't happening right. The scenes were getting awkward. They would just stand there and talk about stuff. No one laughed. The audience was wishing it was over. The lighting tech was trying to figure out when to turn the lights off to signal the end of the scene. And the performers just wanted to get off the stage.
"We want to experience those good scenes again!" the improvisers lamented. "We don't ever want those bad scenes to happen again. What should we do?" Thus, the rules were born and have lived on in improv history ever since. But I love Napier's conclusion about these rules (in his own stream of consciousness kind of way):
"Learning rules can be bad improvisation.
Why, why?
Because the worst part about rules is that people remember them. Often above and beyond anything else. It satisfies and stimulates the left brain. Oh, for a list. "There they are, all numbered and listed. I can remember that. I will remember that. I will remember The Rules of improvisation. How could I not? After all, they are The Rules."
They stick to the brain like glue. They help you think about stuff. Why, you can't help but think about The Rules. They're all memorized in your head. They're "in your head."… The Rules. The Rules. Got 'em all? Think about them because you don't want to break one, think long and hard –
Now, improvise, play!
Good luck.
Yes. That's why I'm not a big fan of The Rules. They help people think in a particular way and that way of thinking is often death to good improvisation. I've watched those damn Rules screw people up for years, and I don't mean that for years, I've seen The Rules screw people up. Individuals who can think of nothing else on stage but The Rules, wandering around powerlessly for years, thinking and measuring and being very careful not to break The Rules, all the while wondering why they are not improving, Improvising.
Left brain, analytical heaven. Not very much fun.
That's religion. We have a great experience with God. We attempt to recreate it. It doesn't turn out the way we expect. We consider it a failure because we didn't find what we were looking for, so we create rules and systems to avert failure in the future. All we want is greater intimacy with God, but in our attempts to control our encounters with Him, we do just the opposite. We stop relying on God and end up confined in a dead religion of rules.
I've grown up as part of the American Evangelical church. It wasn't until I started writing this book that I realized:
American Evangelicalism does not equal following Christ. In fact, people were following Christ long before America or Evangelicalism and people will be following Christ long after both cease to exist.
It seems like such a simple reality, but—depending on your experience—it might sound completely heretical. That's because those who have grown up in the institution of Christianity have been led to believe the two are synonymous—that the depiction of "Christ-follower" in contemporary American culture is the only and ultimate depiction of Christ-follower. And yet to say the two are the same is to say there were no Christians before American Evangelicalism, which, I hope we can agree, is certainly not the case.
So where's the dividing line? It rests in answering the question: "What's Jesus and what's not?"
To answer this question, we can look to The Pharisees, who were excellent at having good intentions and yet suffered some dire and unexpected consequences. Their hope was to please God. In their understanding, all the systems and rules they were creating were "biblically based" as the term goes. They figured out systems by which they could instruct people to live so they might avoid making God mad. And as a result, they loved sameness. They cherished conformity. It was easy to target those who were displeasing God, because those people were different. When everything is the same and one thing is different, the different thing stands out. Sound familiar?
This disease of sameness defines Evangelical culture. Here's a simple example: a bookshelf. If you have a certain book on your shelf, you're giving that book an endorsement of sorts. When someone looks at your bookshelf, they can get an idea of the types of things you've read and researched. That's why one of the books on my shelf has a white piece of paper around the binding. I pulled the book from the shelf and found it, ironically, placed between Ayn Rand's "Anthem" and Orwell's "1984." I bought the book as a 16-year-old. An (unnamed) guy wrote this (to remain unnamed) book in the late nineties and every youth pastor thought it important for every boy in his youth group to read. The book paints this very American Evangelical idea of what it means to be a man, then tries to create a spiritual framework for that idea. The author writes in hopes of creating sameness among the men of our species. In the second chapter, the author is asking what Jesus is like.
"Isn't he sort of meek and mild?" a friend remarked. "I mean the pictures I have of him show a gentle guy with children all around. Kind of like Mother Theresa." Yes, those are the pictures I've seen myself in many churches. In fact, those are the only pictures I've seen of Jesus. As I've said before, they leave me with the impression that he was the world's nicest guy. Mister Rogers with a beard. Telling me to be like him feels like telling me to go limp and passive. Be nice. Be swell. Be like Mother Theresa.
I'd much rather be told to be like William Wallace.
I've never had a conversation with the guy who wrote this book. I'm sure, like the Pharisees, as we all do (myself included), he had good intentions. And while the word "masculine" never appears in the Bible, I'm sure we can say it was this author's desire to write a biblically-based book. And yet, I can't help but feel like his perspective has been influenced by culture as much as it has by Christ.
I love risk. I love stepping out in faith. I love doing things simply because they make me feel alive. And I believe those things are central to abundant life in Christ. But then creeps in this American Evangelical stereotype of loving sports and craving violence. He tells boys there's something wrong with them if they don't fit this mold. A couple chapters later, the author writes,
"This is why my boys love to wrestle with me—why any healthy boy wants the same with his father."
Is it possible a man could be a man and not want to wrestle with his father? Is it possible we're not all the same?
Most of my male friends make music and films and paintings. They're artists. A few of them like UFC and Crossfit and shooting guns, and we're still friends, but a lot of them don't do any of those things. Fortunately, we've found a home with one another—a home that says, "I'll meet you where you are and Christ is the foundation for us. That's enough. You don't have to be the same as me. You don't have to like the things I like. You don't even have to believe the things I believe. You are a human. God loves you. You're valuable. I want you to thrive in the uniqueness of who you are."
There's a distinction between what's Christ-like and what's American, Southern, Evangelical. Regardless of who you are, what your gender is or what you pursue, Christ calls us to a life of risk. Christ calls us to know his love so fully—so deeply—that we're willing to step out in faith. God desires for us to live a life of power and effectiveness and adventure but those things are far removed from the American, Evangelical construct of sameness, of saying that being a man means embracing fighting and guns and war and sports. It's okay to not adopt those things for our lives because they aren't inherent in what it means to be a "Christian." They are cultural.
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Comments about Ride Seward Jacket - Women's:
Last year I purchased a similar jacket, the 686 Mannual. I wanted something somewhat slim fitting but not too tight. Unfortunately, it fit a bit too snug and the hood wasn't expandable enough to easily fit it around my helmet. It also didn't have thumb hole/gaiters, which are majorly helpful on powder days when you want everything to fit seamlessly. I didn't realize how much I valued those two features from a previous Burton jacket until they were gone!
This jacket is slim enough to have a feminine cut, but roomy enough to not feel like it's too tight. And I love the microdot pattern and offcenter zipper. Awesome jacket!


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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Incantation in repetition.
Proud to see my Schrift-Landschaften published by
the very fine Epidote Press.
Pictured here as displayed by the always wonderful NIEMAND.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
grace of certain things.
But certainly, he came more and more to be unable to care for, or think of soul but as in an actual body, or of any world but that wherein are water and trees, and where men and women look, so or so, and press actual hands. It was the trick even his pity learned, fastening those who suffered in anywise to his affections by a kind of sensible attachments. He would think of Julian, fallen into incurable sickness, as spoiled in the sweet blossom of his skin like pale amber, and his honey-like hair; of Cecil, early dead, as cut off from the lilies, from golden summer days, from women's voices; and then what comforted him a little was the thought of the turning of the child's flesh to violets in the turf above him.
- The Child in the House In: Selected Writings of Walter Pater, Ed. Harold Bloom, Columbia University Press 1974
- Stefan Lochner (1410-1451), Madonna mit dem Veilchen, Detail.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
eternally established.
...the principle that children tell little more than animals,
for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
- Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow
- Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthazar
Monday, September 15, 2014
stones and flowers.
It was so utterly wonderful to find I could go so heartily & headily mad; for you know I had been priding myself on my peculiar sanity! And it was more wonderful yet to find the madness made up into things so dreadful, out of things so trivial. One of the most provoking and disagreeable spectres was developed out of the firelight on my mahogany bedpost - and my fate, for all futurity, seemed continually to turn on the humor of dark personages who were materially nothing but stains of damp on the ceiling. But the sorrowfullest part of the matter was, and is, that while my illness at Matlock encouraged me by all its dreams in after work, this one has done nothing but humiliate and terrify me; and leaves me nearly unable to speak any more except of the natures of stones and flowers.
- John Ruskin, from a letter to Thomas Carlyle, 23 June 1878
- Pressed flower from Rosa Luxemburg's Breslau Penitentiary Herbarium. In: Rosa's Letters. Mousse Publishing, 2011
Thursday, September 4, 2014
among the facts of the world.
In Walser, an absolute sense of decency about language does not let agony express itself. The reality is made manifest, the fact of agony, not agony. It is necessary to speak of things, not of words. Marvelously, everything that is utterable is said when one simply states the case.
- Massimo Cacciari, Songs of the Departed in POSTHUMOUS PEOPLE. Vienna at the Turning Point. Stanford University Press, 1996
- Walser in Herisau, 1949 image taken from 50 Watts
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
sometimes a balm.
Jorge Luis Borges - Benedetto Croce
Image - herbert pfostl rescue emblem
Friday, May 3, 2013
kleist - arch.
On the evening before that most important day of my life, in Würzburg, I went for a walk. When the sun went down, it seemed as though my happiness were sinking with it. I was horrified to think that I might be forced to part with everything, everything of importance to me. I was walking back to the city, lost in my own thoughts, through an arched gateway. Why, I asked myself, does this arch not collapse, since after all it has no support? It remains standing, I answered, because all the stones want to fall down at the same time - and from this thought I derived an indescribable heartening consolation, which stayed with me right up to the decisive moment: I too would not collapse, even if all my support were removed.
Heinrich von Kleist, Letter to Wilhelmine von Zenge, November 16, 18, 1800
Image: Ravenna, Kirche San Vitale. Geweiht 547, byzantinisch. Kapitell im Chor.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
tell them I've had a wonderful life.
At the age of ten he constructed a working model of a sewing machine out of bits of wood and wire.
It was not true that he couldn't hear, simply that he wouldn't listen.
He took The Brothers Karamazov to the front.
Continued to wear his uniform for many years after the war.
His sense of humor was "heavy".
And this is how it is: if only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be - unutterably - contained in what has been uttered!
I am not a religious man but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.
What we say will be easy, but to know why we say it will be very difficult.
The solution of the problem of life is to be seen in the disappearance of the problem.
The inexpressible (that which seems mysterious to me, geheimnisvoll, and that I am not capable of expressing) provides the ground upon which all that I am able to express acquires meaning.
The sense of the world must lie outside the world.
What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics.
A whole generation of disciples was able to take Wittgenstein for a positivist because he has something of enormous importance in common with the positivists: he draws the line between what we can speak about and what we must be silent about just as they do. The difference is only that they have nothing to be silent about. Positivism holds - and this is its essence - that what we can speak about is all that matters in life. Whereas Wittgenstein passionately believes that all that really matters in human life is precisely what, in his view, we must be silent about. (Paul Engelmann)
I ought to have done something positive with my life, to have become a star in the sky.
His last words were: "Tell them I've had a wonderful life."
- Text and images from:
Ludwig Wittgenstein The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein with a Memoir by Paul Engelmann
Saturday, March 9, 2013
to disinvent.
I should like to erect here a modest stele to the memory of Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), a secretary and confidant of Queen Victoria. It was probably he who invented the marvelously useful verb to disinvent. The only illustration of this word in the Oxford English Dictionary (Vol. III) is a quotation from Helps dated 1868: "I would disinvent telegraphic communication." The word is not listed in Vol. I of the Supplement (1972), but a recent use will be found s.v. fantasy in the same volume. If I were younger, I would found the Coverers' and Disinventors' Club.
Erwin Chargaff, HERACLITEAN FIRE. Sketches from a Life before Nature.
(Footnote in the Trembling of the Balance chapter)
Image from the German edition: Das Feuer des Heraklit (KLETT-COTTA, Vierte Auflage, 1988)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Stars. Blue. Expanse.
Flaming song of stars!
A million nightingales are singing.
Springtide light is flashing.
Myriads of eyelashes are flaring up in quivers.
The green happiness of spring-night banquets
Commences its own rutting shine.
Balmy showers take their magic turn:
Millions of nightingales are singing.
Do I recognize a friendly ghost?
I will earnestly contend for it.
The sign wants to be carved into perceiving:
Who knows when my dream-life will be blazing?
Ghosts resemble our gentle animals,
They are fast to sense the nature of attraction.
They heave and hover and weave about
And keep us very gingerly under their spell.
I do not want to lose this light-swarming silence.
An old theurgy must stir here soon from gentleness.
Millions of nightingales are singing.
Kindred voices are urging us through the night.
It seems a moon is smoldering arcanely.
But the night she is too warm, so full of breathing pleasure!
Myriads of sparks fly as if in rut to seek each other.
They whirr back and forth and yet still as a part of spring.
The ghost of spring, the ghost of spring is prowling in the wood-lot!
The broad-leaved forest can wander and anticipate itself,
It sways and waltzes to all the old ways of transformation;
The night is laughing: Big Dipper's daring, Libra is keeping watch.
Here are flashing myriads of dance-besotted queries -
Millions of nightingales are singing.
Millionen Nachtigallen Schlagen
Translated from Theodor Däubler's DAS STERNENKIND.
For my Kirston, on this day, and for bringing his book to me.
An edition of Däubler's poems in letterpress available from us soon.
An edition of Däubler's poems in letterpress available from us soon.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
every log that falls.
The successive thump of logs on the paving of the courtyards. They were unloaded from carts, house by house, as the cold weather loomed. The wood fell on the ground and announced winter. Baudelaire stayed awake. There was no need of anything else but that sound - dull, repetitive. The sun already knows that soon it will be imprisoned "in its polar inferno." It is as if auscultating labored breathing: "Trembling. I listen to every log that falls."
Anatole France, with the amiable skepticism that sometimes prevented him from understanding, recounted that one day a sailor showed Baudelaire an African fetish, "a monstrous little head carved out of a piece of wood by a poor negro." It's really ugly, said the sailor. And he threw it away in scorn. "Watch out!" said Baudelaire anxiously. "It might be the one true god!" It was his firmest declaration of faith.
The two last fragments from LA FOLIE BAUDELAIRE
by Roberto Calasso
(Image: Félix Nadar - Charles Baudelaire au Fauteuil, 1855 - Paris, Musée d'Orsay)
Monday, June 4, 2012
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
the forsaken toys of others.
Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which I found it hard to stir. You will not guess what I have been about. I will tell you for such things do not happen every day. I have been making a list of from two to three hundred radical words of the Russian language, and have had them translated into as many languages and jargons as I could find. Their number exceeds already the second hundred. Every day I took one of these words and wrote it out in all the languages which I could collect. This has taught me that Celtic is like the Ostiakian: that what means sky in one language means cloud, fog, vault, in others; that the word God in certain dialects means Good, the Highest, in others, sun or fire...I asked Professor Pallas to come to me, and after making an honest confession of my sin, we agreed to publish these collections, and thus make them useful to those who like to occupy themselves with the forsaken toys of others.
- Letter from Catherine the Great, dated 9 May 1785, from Curious Versions of Modernity, D.l. Martin, MIT Press 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
...der Heilige gibt den halben Mantel, die Gottheit den ganzen Schleier.
...the holy man gives half of his coat, divinity the whole veil.
- Franz Hessel, Ermunterung zum Genuss.
- Southern Netherlands, Reliquary of the Virgin's Veil, early 15th century, detail
thank you, woolgathersome, for bringing this image to me.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
a vagabond melancholy.
There on the pier, stabbed by an ice pick, the Empress Elizabeth, symbol of the oldest European monarchy, which must die at the villainous hand. The contemptible Lucheni raved about making noise and killing someone in the public eye. But it was really the enduring vagabond melancholy of Elizabeth Wittelsbach that, in the mysterious dialogue of souls, summoned the madman to Geneva from Piedmont and anointed him as her assassin. For that matter, even the Italian government was a Lucheni. (Perhaps in its death wish, Vienna itself summoned him.)
- Guido Ceronetti, The Silence of the Body
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
such moments in gestures.
I have read now quickly, now slowly through the whole of your wonderful book.
What at first would appear to be an Ars Morendi
Suddenly shifts into alternative contemplations
On history, literature, religion:
All products of the Self.
The resonance is of one who, because of age,
Contemplates his own mortality
And tries to persuade himself
That though the end is the end
Life is not pointless.
The art of book-making shines on every page
Reflecting the author's own claim to immortality
With rare choices and artful placement
On beautiful paper softly radiating a luminous sepia.
- Glenn Watkins on To Die No More
Glenn Watkins is the coeditor of the complete works of Gesualdo and author of Gesualdo: The Man and His Music (1973) and The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth and Memory (2010). He is also the author of Soundings: Music in the 20th Century (1988); Pyramids at the Louvre (1994); and Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War (2003).
Monday, April 25, 2011
too light to sink, too faint to float.
If one of those little flakes of micasand, hurried in tremulous spangling along the bottom of the ancient river, too light to sink, too faint to float, almost too small for sight, could have had a mind given to it as it was at last borne down with its kindred dust into the abysses of the stream, and laid, (would it not have thought?) for a hopeless eternity, in the dark ooze, the most despised, forgotten, and feeble of all earth's atoms; incapable of any use or change; not fit, down there in the diluvial darkness, so much as to help an earth-wasp to build its nest, or feed the first fibre of a lichen;
— what would it have thought, had it been told that one day, knitted into a strength as of imperishable iron, rustless by the air, infusible by the flame, out of the substance of it, with its fellows, the axe of God should hew that Alpine tower; that against it—poor, helpless, mica flake! — the wild north winds should rage in vain; beneath it— low-fallen mica flake —the snowy hills should lie bowed like flocks of sheep, and the kingdoms of the earth fade away in unregarded blue; and around it—weak, wave-drifted mica flake! — the great war of the firmament should burst in thunder, and yet stir it not; and the fiery arrows and angry meteors of the night fall blunted back from it into the air; and all the stars in the clear heaven should light, one by one as they rose, new cressets upon the points of snow that fringed its abiding place on the imperishable spire?
John Ruskin, Modern painters, Volume 4
/Portrait of Miss Rose La Touche, 1874.
dedicated to kirston of woolgathersome.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
dearer than one's own decay, in a world so nearly blind.
"He became frightened of flowers because they grew so slowly that he couldn't tell what they planned to do."
These wine-leaf-brown prose fragments need no page numbering, these chance discoveries connect one's own feelings to those of kindred spirits and now fill the room, a place of chamotte-golden daylight, they vibrate and swing, are highly vivacious attractors of thought, grains of salt to garland the sting of death, nourishing light set against the dark premonition of a final end to the godless Western world and its consuming despair.
They can be found in a sensuous treasure chest of similar dimensions, weight, and texture as a smallish cigar-case, one that might hold five Havanas. A deliberate piece of art, a vignette of death, sways in relief at the cover's middle: the stylized figure of a doomed little ship on calm seas, emblem and symbol of the human soul equipped for certain death.
Its cross is proud and questioning simultaneously- though ever dependent on a deeper center, from which its perpendicularity is derived and its echo resounds.
From its pale blue frame, it partakes in the triumph of the already-dead: Nevermore will we die.
Calm and silence, time's greatest tools, heal everything- because time gets lost in itself, recedes completely, forgets itself- only thus is the wide sea of soul released.
That is the promise kept by this little book, this compendium of thoughts and images materialized from realms of the in-between.
Toward the end of the book, mysterious credits embrace the thinkers who brought forth its fruit. There are great names, who here withdraw behind the greatness of their words- as if all of them were written by one single man, one single soul expressing itself in the book.
Mankind, truly-voiced.
Whoever is willing to take it up, gains the self and the silence to confront horror.
The blossoms of a black spring: the intimation that the very first things will be met again at the very end.
And not as religion would have these things, but as they are held commonly, as every person may perceive them, coming into flower so "slowly that he couldn't tell what they planned to do..."
Here everything is true and deep. No idea harasses, no image squints in judgment at an observer. They are sufficient to their own ends and, self-sustaining, reach far into open space- even into one's own thinking!
They give themselves freely to one who understands love. One who searches using the same questions, scouring the immeasurable for faint traces, clues which are held dearer than one's own decay. For ars moriendi has always begun with the first heartbeat, and they who make life ravishing, exuberant, and worth living belong to a unique school of magic, whose alumni are only reared correctly on a diet of the entirely other-than-ordinary - the Different required by death.
A reliable friend is death, his companions reliable friends. In each present, passing moment, the dead and the living mold this world jointly. This view is the only possible basis for action in a world so nearly blind.
The hide of the blind pony acts as blanket to the gathered people. Together they acquire the horse's strength- unending fortitude and vigor. Oh, they stagger in the lurching movements of purposeful action, they climb, they copulate, they shelter within themselves, they dis-mean, they mis-live, they cannot recognize the conditions of their existence.
Death finally removes the blanket, allowing them to see freely.
The images in the book show such sights. Out of the mist - out of these white shadows surrounding the self-searcher - emerge dark forebodings- aquarelles possessing the soul's tenderness, violence and loving clear-sight.
Again and again, the animals in the paintings, who seem quite unloosed from mortality, are envoys of the other side.
If they die, they die only allegorically, calmly.
If there is drama, it is only in our eyes, the eyes of the human spectator.
Perhaps such is required for us to empathize and to understand their message.
Again and again, the ships, which we ourselves are.
Again and again, man in all his magnificence and sorrow, his doubts and wild errors.
And - surprising and novel - this whole book intrinsically rubs against the grain: nevermore will we die...
Much more than a book. A rescinding of time and space, of reason and logic, limitation and finitude, of the lust for a future and validation by a past.
There is a totally different and new space-time continuum in these pages, breathing eternity out into eternity. Whoever wills is in the heart of it: nave, navel, naval, ship.
Where we come from and where we go remain numinous.
But in tender arms we sway and are secure.
This book will accompany me until I see the archetypes of its images.
It is - to stout hearts - everything in a nutshell. It is - to the rational - a font of steady confrontation. To the dying - a treasure hoard beyond description. To the most vital among us - a very, very good compass.
Compass? Yes. A compassion they must dare to aim inward.
"Among the dead are thousands of beautiful women."
And men.
- Susanne Bummel-Vohland
translated from the German by Kristofor Minta and Susanne Bummel-Vohland
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"Are muscle cramps and sleepless nights usual with CKD? And how serious is it if kidney function is at 40%?"
Dr Sarah Jarvis says: "The standard measurement for CKD, or chronic kidney disease, is eGFR, or estimated glomerular filtration rate. The lower your eGFR is, the lower your kidney function. A level over 90 is normal; a level of 60-90 is normal unless you have protein in your urine; 45-59 is 'stage 3A' CKD; 30-45 'stage 3B'; 15-30 is 'stage 4' and below 15 is 'stage 5', at which level dialysis is usually needed.
However, these definitions can cause unnecessary worry. For instance, as you get older your eGFR drops naturally. Under the present guidelines, this is classified as chronic kidney 'disease', but it's debatable whether this is really 'disease' given that it's part of the normal ageing process. In fact, it's only a problem if your eGFR is dropping at such a rate that it's likely to reach stage 5 during your lifetime. So many of my 80-year-old patients have eGFRs of 45 or 50, but their levels are declining very slowly and I reassure them that it's unlikely to drop enough to cause them any problems in their lifetime
Unfortunately muscle cramps, which are often worse at night and can disrupt your sleep significantly, aren't uncommon with CKD. If they suddenly get worse, it is worth seeing your doctor, as this may be due to imbalance of the salts in your blood. They tend to be worse in severe CKD, especially in people on dialysis. Some tablets, including 'water' tablets (diuretics), nifedipine and statins (to lower cholesterol) also cause or worsen muscle cramps.
Massaging your legs or applying a warm compress can help. You can try propping your lower legs up on a pillow if you sleep on your back, or hanging your feet over the end of the bed if you sleep on your front. Use a duvet rather than sheets and blankets to prevent them from constricting your feet and causing you to point your toes while you're sleeping.
Regular stretching exercises can also be very helpful. Some doctors recommend doing them before bed, while others feel that performing them regularly three times a day is more effective. Stand 2-3 feet away from the wall, facing it. Lean towards the wall, keeping your feet flat on the floor. It may be worth a trial of cutting out caffeine and alcohol, too."
-Dr Sarah Jarvis


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India's leading fashion photographer Dabboo Ratnani is famed for his annual collectible calendar featuring hot ladies and eye-candy men of Bollywood. Each year 24 stars brightens the calendar, and top celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shah Rukh
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The first look of Arjun Rampal in one of his upcoming film titled 'Daddy' is out. The tall and handsome actor will be playing the lead role in the biopic on gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli. The first look poster in black and white has Arjun holding up a board on which his name - Arun
Actress Vidya Balan and filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh are back again with 'Kahaani 2', the sequel of their 2012 blockbuster Kahaani'. As the release date of the thriller nears, the makers have released the fourth dialogue promo of the film. The promo continues the mystery surrounding Vidya's chara
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I was very excited to see this shorty van pull up to the show.
Not a huge Kiss fan myself as that Simmons dude seems like a tool but I have to give it up to the artist that put this homage together. It fits this van so well that I have to force myself to put aside my differences.
Imagine this thing jamming down the highway long trip... or just parked at a lake.


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What Does The Internet Of Everything Really Mean For Cisco Partners?
One way to look at the Internet of Everything (IoE) is that it's about opportunity — and that the scope of that opportunity is astounding.
Cisco's analysis holds that there's about $14.4 trillion of economic value at stake as we unlock the potential of smart network connections to create new capabilities, provide richer experiences and spur unprecedented productivity for businesses, people and countries throughout the world. But we're only beginning to explore how IoE is going to shape the business discussions, customer purchasing decisions and solution provider conversations of tomorrow.
One question that's coming up more often from partners is this one: "What does the Internet of Everything really mean to me?" And most of the time, that's not only a conceptual question, but also a practical one: "Hey, Cisco. This IoE 'thing' you're talking about…say that it does come to pass. Well, what will my business and priorities look like as a result?"
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About sullivanweather
Thomas is an avid weather enthusiast, landscaper and organic gardener. This blog is dedicated to Northeast and tropical weather forecasting. Enjoy!
By: sullivanweather , 12:22 AM GMT on March 06, 2014
So, what went wrong with the snowstorm for the Northeast on Sunday/Monday? There were several key factors which led into a much further southward track with the storm; two of which were strong confluent flow over New England and one of the coldest March outbreaks of arctic air over the northern US in the last 140 years thanks to an unusually strong 1050mb surface high pressure sagging south over the northern Plains.
Selection of all-time March records for cold broken during arctic outbreak
This surface high also had a eastward extending ridge axis which extended over eastern Canada and resulted in strong wedging down the east side of the Appalachians. The combination of the confluent flow and surface high pressure led to strong subsidence and vast amounts of dry air becoming entrained into the front-end of the storm in the ageostrophic flow east of the Appalachians. These two factors severely cut down the precipitation arriving with the first system on Sunday behind the arctic front. However, the main 500mb trough still hung back to the west over Texas and surface low pressure with the developing storm was still back in the mid-Mississippi Valley. What led to the main storm also taking a detour south from expectations which held for nearly a week?
One of many consistent model runs of expected storm for Monday, March 3rd showing southern stream shortwave moving out ahead of northern stream trough.
Final solution showing the southern stream shortwave obviously left behind by rapidly advancing northern stream shortwave.
Just some minor shifts in the longwave pattern, it turns out. Large scale features, such as the North American center of the polar vortex, were slightly removed from the regions in which they were modeled to be in, with small changes in the configuration of individual vorticity centers within the core of the vortex and subsequent changes in the resulting orientation of minor trough axes (oddly enough, that is the correct spelling of the plural of "axis"). What ensued was a faster northern stream of the jet from the southwestwardly placed center of the polar vortex over eastern Canada. This helped to move a minor trough axis (A Rossby wave, really) through the North American northern stream flow out in front of the Pacific-origin system in the southern stream by the time it emerged out in the southern Plains. The height falls associated with the passage of the northern stream Rossby wave out ahead of the southern stream system essentially put in place an atmospheric wall which kept the southern stream system from penetrating too far north.
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I remember growing up as a kid in a church watching all the missionaries come through and give their projected picture presentations. They always brought some dramatic stories of what God was doing in far off places like Africa or Asia. We would take an offering, have potluck, have a youth group bonfire, and call it missions week. Once a year the youth group would take a missions trip to Mexico. To me and my friends this was missions. If you were so lucky you too would be called to take up the mantle to go to some far off place to bring Christ's message of hope. Whether or not they said it the message conveyed was that the people everywhere else needed Jesus because we here in America were a Christian nation.
Christian mission of those years was a colonial expansion of western values which also included Christianity. In those days 90 percent of Christians in the world lived in the west. Today less than 15% of Christians are in the west. The data shows us that in the west less and less people are actually attending church. No longer can we with any credibility call ourselves a Christian nation. It is time for our missionaries to come home.
When I was in high school God called me to full time professional ministry. At that time I felt a burning desire to be a missionary but not overseas. My desire was to be a missionary to my home. When asked in my licensing interview how I would address missions as a pastor, I gave them this answer and they didn't like it. The Spirit impressed something on me that has now proven to be fact. We cannot continue down the path of missions like we've always done it.
I don't want to downplay those foreign missionaries who have gone before us. I am very grateful to them and know for that season God had clearly called them to go as missionaries in the way that we did. If we are going to be good missionaries no longer can we do it the same way. I believe we can't do it the same way for a few reasons.
First, globalization is fully upon us. The world has become a melting pot. People from all over the world now live in our neighborhoods here in the west. With all cultures coming together especially in the local church I believe that in our local churches need to be training missionaries to be sent home. What better way to incarnate the Gospel than to send someone into a culture that they know intimately and would have instant credibility? A missionary like that doesn't need to go through years of cultural training before they can start to have influence. Recently, I had the joy of watching a friend's church send a missionary "home" to South Africa. It was awesome hearing him talk of how he could immediately hit the ground running in his home country. This is how we need to think if we are going to think about living out our missionary identity in light of Jesus' incarnation.
Secondly, colonialism is over. If you don't believe me just look at the struggle we have had at making Iraq a western country. The success of colonialism has breeding the response often one of hatred and distrust. As missionaries we are to look to incarnate the gospel into the culture in which we live. How can we effectively do that if the culture we are going to hates and distrusts us? Let me speak frankly, sending a white American into a primarily middle eastern muslim country is a waste of resources. Because of colonialism white Americans are hated in much of that world. Instead why don't we train and send a former middle eastern muslim who is in one of our local churches to that part of the world. Much better use of people and resources.
Finally, logically it makes no sense to keep doing it as we have always done it. Resources are running dry, traditional missionaries are losing their effectiveness, and less people are going because frankly there is less of a pool of people to choose from. Logically speaking if I say I am going to give away $20k a year to an organization and I quit making money eventually I'm not going to be able to give $20k anymore. I have to change what I am doing and go make more money so that I can continue to give. Same is true here, something must change, if we don't change then we are going to just get the same things that we have been getting.
What if all of our churches across the world had the mentality of being sending centers to send people back into their home culture with the purpose of transforming that culture into the likeness of Jesus? If we did this we would be more effective missionaries across the world. We would save resources and find more people. We would begin to move past colonialism and move into incarnationalism.
It's risky for people to go home. Just look at when Jesus went home, the people he grew up with wanted to stone him. It's hard to go across the street and live out Jesus. Take short term missions teams for example, I've been on dozens of these trips and they can be powerful times for those on the trips (the missions effectiveness of them will need to be for another blog post) but consistently people come back home as accomplished missionaries yet won't go across the street to incarnate Jesus. Why is that? It is because he have failed to see our local churches become sending centers
I think all those years ago the church missed the point. I think it was great to hear what God was doing across the world. He truly used our missionaries and I know that he continues to do so. God will use us even if we don't move forward in the most effective way. Our churches missed the point because we made missions just for those called to go across the world rather than using what they learned to created sending centers to send people across the street.


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Sports are physical competitions with an objective outcome. Their rules should therefore encourage active play (vis a vis strategic time-wasting, for example) or make outcomes more objective (vis a vis human error and judgment calls). Here are 13 such changes, all of which are practically feasible, gleaned from extensive perusal of available online suggestions (and common sense).
1. NBA: Declare That Any Defensive Contact Made Without An Effort To Contest A Shot Is A Foul
Unless the defender has established position before the offensive player has left the ground, and raises their arms to contest the shot, that's a blocking foul. No more of this sliding under at the last second and huddling in a defensive crouch as you fall over bullshit. That's not sports. If you want to play defense, play defense. Any sport whose rules encourage players to stand still with their hands between their legs needs to take a look in the mirror.
2. MLB: Universalize The Designated Hitter
The American League has a designated hitter, the National League does not. This makes no sense and is an increasingly annoying distraction given all the interleague play that now goes on, forcing teams to prepare for most games one way, only to do things totally differently a few times a year. It also makes us watch pitchers try to bat. DH everywhere.
3. NFL: Make Pass Interference A 15-Yard Penalty
In the NFL, the penalty for defensive pass interference is an automatic first down at the spot of the foul. This makes one particular kind of subjective and hard-to-review human judgment call far more important than any of the others in the sport. College's 15-yards-and-a-first-down penalty is the way to go.
4. NHL: Implement "Hybrid Icing"
The purpose of the icing rule is to prevent teams from chucking the puck to other end of the ice to protect a lead, but it has turned into a high-speed race to the puck, sometimes causing violent collisions involving players who aren't trying to make a play on the puck, but just to touch it.
The AHL tested a new concept called "hybrid icing" last June, basically stating that the play is whistled dead if the player on the opposing team reaches the faceoff dot first, cutting off most of the tedious scrambles to touch the puck.
5. NCAA Football: Create An Eight-Team Playoff Format
The new college football playoff system will begin in the 2014-15 season and feature the top four teams as chosen by a selection committee. While this is a huge step in the right direction, an eight-team playoff system would make college football even better. (But 16 would be too many. It's just obvious. It's just obvious to everyone.)
Bonus Suggestion: Use NFL rules for ruling a runner down — i.e. let them get back up and run if they fall without being touched. Where this particularly would help is in creating exciting, Ed Reed-style returns off diving interceptions.
6. NBA: No More Advancing The Ball To Half-Court After A Timeout
When teams calls a timeout in the last two minutes of an NBA game, they can receive the ball at half-court. And that makes sense because…it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make any friggin' sense and that rule is stupid. Make them advance the dang ball themselves. #noshortcuts #riseandgrind
Bonus Suggestion: Prevent teams from calling timeout before the ball has been inbounded after a previous timeout. Consecutive timeouts in the last minute of a close game are terrible momentum-killers. It's also absurd and contrary to the essence of physical competition to spend five minutes gathered around an old guy with a whiteboard for every five seconds of action.
7. MLB: Allow Managers To Challenge Plays
The technology is out there to make sure games are no longer decided by one man's bad judgment, but rather reviewed by high-def instant replay. Obviously this could get out-of-hand quickly with every manager wanting a ball or strike to go their way, but let's give them one challenge flag so instances like the Jim Joyce blown call (a.k.a. "The Imperfect Game") no longer happen.
Bonus Suggestion: Call a balk if a catcher has to stand up to catch a pitch. Eliminates pitchouts, but makes intentional walks a lot more challenging (and potentially hilarious) to execute.
8. NFL: Always Give The Home Team The Ball First In Overtime
What it loses in fairness — giving an edge to the home squad — it makes up for in giving away teams a strong incentive to take risks to try and win in regulation, rather the current system in which both teams play meekly not to lose.
9. NHL: Eliminate Delay Of Game On Pucks Sent Out Of The Defensive Zone
Currently, when any defensive player directs the puck out of bounds (e.g., over the glass into the stands or into the safety netting), a minor delay-of-game penalty is issued. But too many games have been decided by a player being penalized for unintentionally firing a puck over the glass in his defensive zone. This is the rare case in which letting a referee use their judgment (as to whether a player had intentionally sent the puck into the stands) would make the game better.
10. NBA: Eliminate Foul-Outs
You are allowed six fouls in the NBA, and then you're out. As many people have pointed out, this makes basketball the only sport where you can get ejected for something besides fighting or calling the ref a f—-ing c—-faced d—-hat, and often leads to games that end with the best players sitting on the bench. One alternative: after a player has committed five fouls, any further fouls by that player mean the opposing team not only gets two foul shots but retains possession of the ball.
Bonus Suggestion: Any team that loses more than 60 games has to change their name to "The C—-faced D—-hats" for the entire following season.
11. NHL: Eliminate The Trapezoid Rule
This rule states that goaltenders are not allowed to play the puck outside the trapezoid-marked area behind the net, which really penalizes stick-minded goalies who can handle the puck and start an offensive surge. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS SUPPOSED TO BE?
Let them play!
12. Soccer: Have A Penalty Box Instead Of Yellow and Red Cards
This is taken straight from hockey. Players who commit a foul would be removed from the game for a designated period of time depending on the severity of the penalty. Red and yellow cards are too much of a game-changer, especially when opposing players are flopping for calls.
Plus, there would probably be less arguing from the players, knowing that they will soon be back in the game.
13. Quidditch: Eliiminate The Golden Snitch
The Snitch element of Quidditch is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It basically makes everything prior irrelevant because catching this little golden ball automatically ends the game and is worth 150 points, which translates into 15 goals scored by Chasers. Are you kidding me?! What's the point of even playing if one move can have such a lopsided effect on the game? Remove The Golden Snitch and Quidditch is awesome.
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