Democracy in action

  

Yes, Render unto Caesar what is Caesars.
No, Tell Caesar to go fuck himself.
                                                                  -Aristotle, ca. early July, 340 BC

Self-help Section

Stretching and Yawning

Move arms to a V-shape, with upper backs of arms parallel to ground , and with balled fists to just parallel to your ears about 3-6 inches away from your ears. Slowly, draw back your elbows to several inches behind behind shoulder blades. Now arch your back, drawing elbows back far enough to slightly lower crook of elbows at an azimuth that comfortably compliments the arched back. Drop your lower jaw slightly and slowly draw in a large breath, while simultaneously beginning to stretch your arms upwards over your head, and stretching body from side to side. In a single continuous movement, lower jaw as far as you can . While drawing in air to fully inhaled lungs, continue pushing arms far over your head and slightly hold breath while fists are stretched to maximum extent over head. Hold breath for a few seconds, while moving arms in air in small swirls, or circles, sometimes gradually widening out swirls, and slightly twisting wrists and elbows. Then, with mouth slightly closed, release air from lungs in long short intervals, while sweeping elbows back down to sides of thorax, with the final exhale. An additional sideways arm extensions directly out from body, parallel to ground, and rotational movements of entire arms, while drawing another breath, will complete procedure.

Alternate Method:

Instead of raising both arms overhead simultaneously, use one hand to rub your nose, and extend one arm upwards while stretching body, then repeat for opposite sides.

How to Break Glass

T.O. recorded and performed this performance to represent a woman’s experience in everyday sexual violence.

The relationship between the knife and the glass sheet represent these daily micro aggressions. The glass sheet symbolizes the transparent veil of sexualization and a visual spectacle for penetration. The knife is an agent and by-product of a patriarchal society that is reflected and symbolized in its phallic form. The performance parallels a reverse masturbation as I aggressively penetrate the glass sheet to reach its breaking point. However, the knife fails to shatter the glass before I am physically exhausted. Having the act portray a constant and continuous sexual violence, which has yet to be broken. This documentation is a portrayal of aggression towards my experience in sexual violence.

This video was edited from the original 10min duration.

https://vimeo.com/user18207515

Think of the Pineapples

Each mole of Carbon weighs 12 Grams. So, in a Gallon of gasoline, or 4 Liters, which is a little more than a Gallon, there is about 4000 grams, and, minus the hydrogen in gasoline, about 305 moles of carbon. When the carbon combines in combustion with Oxygen it makes 305 moles of Carbon Dioxide. Each mole of CO2 is now air, and it's volume has now expanded greatly, at 22.4 liters per mole, to 6832 liters of air per gallon of gasoline. On earth, that is not an enormous amount, but considering the moles of carbon burned in human activity, it matters. It adds up to however many grams of carbon we burn, divided by 12, and then multiplied by 22.4, to find out how many liters of CO2 we are putting into our Atmosphere. Albeit, that half gets re-absorbed into earth's ecosystem, the other half stays in the atmosphere for many decades

There are several factors that lead this accumulation of CO2 to add egregious amounts of heat to the planet. These correlations are very simple, any politician saying otherwise knows perfectly well he is lying. For one thing CO2 is fairly heavy, weighing a third more than Oxygen molecules. This means that it is settling through the porous atmosphere, but at the same time being buoyed by the jostling. A simple analogy is shaking together a bunch of small pebbles and sand together with larger pebbles in a jar. The larger pebbles migrate to the top of the Jar. Similarly, the carbon gets jostled upwards, and then settles downward, causing the bouncing molecule to vibrate in a manner that makes it amenable to absorbing a frequency of light. If the frequency of light that it was absorbing was coming was just from space, it would cool the planet, because only half the radiation would be bounced down, and half back out to space. However, most of the radiation it absorbs is coming from the planet, because it absorbs infra-red radiation that is closely related to the black-body radiation, or the ambient temperature, that earth is mostly giving off. The CO2 absorbs this earth radiation, at ratios that are whatever concentration of CO2 that is in the atmosphere, and then reflects about half this radiation back to the ground, where it is registered as heat, causing the heat to gradually, but steadily, accumulate. This heat radiation would naturally flow back out to space if the CO2 molecules were not there. The warmer air allows more water to be absorbed into the air as the dew point climbs. Water also has the effect of absorbing infra-red radiation. Of course, we are near the end of the rope, since a methane release would cause a runaway heat event, that would cause a huge mass extinction. Don't worry though, the jelly-fish might make it. Pineapples, probably not.

All of this has been known for over a hundred years.

Correction:

Antique Road Show

“I was talking with some of my colleagues, and we were just blown away.

First of all,where did you get this?"

"On Youtube"

"Well its a heck of a find. I mean the backdrop alone, Tanglewood. Can you imagine how fucking beautiful it would be there. And the campy song, Chicago, wow, and professional vocals and brasswinds. You just don't see that anymore. Whoever posted this took out the annoying ads, stellar! Anyway, we think, conservatively, this video is worth a 100,000 clicks. Congratulations."

"Whoa, Thank you".