Archive for July 2010
Fresh Newstastic Goodness..
.. coming online in the next 48 hours or so.
Appropriate dancing, chanting, and general expressions of festive joy may ensue. Musical instruments optional.
Your humble servant,
Binks
Steynian 417nd
Memed– I’m On An Internet!
~ SOCIAL MEDIA LIKE FaceBook and Youtube and all the other interconnected (hence social) new-media is powerful. Harnessed to all the creativity out there, you get entertainment, fun, quick responds and a whole world of fun… and real marketability, market-attention and popularity in the culture. Ask anyone under 30– especially teens and university students.
It’s So Intense!
Mr. Bear
Two recent examples? ‘Double Rainbow’ by Yosemite Bear.. which got turned into a super-popular song, now available on iTunes. The guy involved is now being interviewed here and there, and is famous for his 15 minutes. Why? His response to the rainbows is so happy, so pure, so childlike, I think it touched something in cynical hearts to hear someone literally weeping over beauty in nature.
Das Binkenmeister says:
Fresh Binks Steynian goodness– coming in the next 24hours or so.. plus commentary, vids, toons, and all the too much news you’ve come to expect!…
Binkses
Steynian 416rd
Freedom: Ad Fontes
King Hank 1.0
~ WHAT ARE THE sources of freedom handed on to us from English common law? Pride of place is often reserved for the Great Charter (Magna Carta) of 1215; but that document itself derived and built upon an earlier declaration: The Charter Of Liberties of 1100, issued by Henry I on his coming to the throne.
The earlier Charter cleaned up the mess of 1066 and later, especially the big-government approach of Henry’s brother Red William, who never met a new tax, empty church see, or unreasonable exaction he didn’t like. Henry instituted circuit courts, orderly means of good government, and ruled fairly but firmly.
Far from being a dry 900 year old irrelevance, the Charter of Liberties (like the Magna Carta) are worth reading and pondering precisely because the same issues are ever with us, especially in the claims of government and rulers to be all-powerful and arbitrary. Henry hit rewind, and reaffirmed the laws and practices of his father (William the Conqueror), and (skipping King Harold) of Edward the Confessor before that.
In Their Own Words
The Charter was issued from the Norman Chapel in the Tower of London in 1100– but read and you can find echoes of our present concerns and debates:
News Is A-Comin’…
.. sometime in the next 24 hours or so.. the Lord willin’ an’ the crick don’t rise.
Yerz,
Binks
Huzzah!
