Living Proof

You do some sad, sad things baby
When it's you you're trying to lose
You do some sad and hurtful things
I've seen living proof

Too true, sometimes. But things are better now, and I'm glad.

Searching for a little bit of God's mercy
I found living proof

Independence Day

Last night I turned on the CD player. I'd forgotten what CDs were on it, and when I heard "Ain't Goin Down" I certainly wasn't thinking of July 4th celebrations.

But partway through this song I started hearing the words - "When we're free to love anyone we choose [or] to worship from our own kind of pew" - I realized why songs like "Comin' to America" or "Proud to be An American" or the other songs played during fireworks are really only so-so: those songs assume that we're free now. We're not. And this song isn't afraid to say we're not.

I may not agree with everything this song has to say. But I'm glad it says it.
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When we're free to love anyone we choose
When this world's big enough for all different views
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free
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From the NYT:

ACCORDING to research compiled by David E. Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, multitaskers actually hinder their productivity by trying to accomplish two things at once. Mr. Meyer has found that people who switch back and forth between two tasks, like exchanging e-mail and writing a report, may spend 50 percent more time on those tasks than if they work on them separately, completing one before starting the other.

As a result, Mr. Meyer said, businesspeople who multitask "are making themselves worse businesspeople."

He says little research has been done into why some people are compulsively drawn to multitasking. But he theorizes that the allure has several layers. Multitasking offers a guise of productivity, a "macho" show of accomplishment, and similarities to a quick amphetamine rush.

That may be...but sometimes using email or solitaire as a break from the report will enable me to get the report done today instead of next week.

It's a good article...I read the first 3 paras (not those above) to jw1776 and he thought it was The Onion. ;)