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Monday, October 3

So that's why they play football on Sundays!

by Mike on Mon 03 Oct 2005 11:48 PM EDT

How about that win by the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night! What a game! And to think that just a few years ago Neil Rackers was the shame of Cincinnati! All in all, it was pretty exciting and the fact that the game was played in Mexico City made it even more interesting.

Arizona QB Josh McCown was miked for sound by ESPN and the results were rather intriguing. ESPN ran highlights from McCown's audio later in the evening. One of the sound bites featured McCown celebrating after a touchdown. He pointed up to the sky and yelled, "Thank you God...Thank you Jesus!" The very next clip featured McCown rallying the Cards on the sideline, yelling: "Step on their throats! STEP ON THEIR THROATS!" What an interesting dichotomy, no?

Back to the prayer thing...A few years back, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a presentation by Albert Ellis, a true pioneer in the areas of psychology and psychotherapy. Ellis is a self-described probabilistic athiest and on the day of the workshop that I was attending, some other folks in attendance clearly wanted to pick a fight with Ellis on the matter of religion. Now, Doc Ellis put up with the jabs and quips for as long as he could, until he had enough. At that point, the 80-odd year-old Ellis closed his eyes and yelled, "If there is a God, he doesn't give a shit!".

I'm not sure if Dr. Ellis was referring specifically to football or about life in general, but I sure wish Josh McCown had been there. How is it that prayers can guide a football into the hands of a wide receiver, but they can't stop wars, hurricanes, and disease?

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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

by Mike on Mon 03 Oct 2005 11:30 PM EDT

During a recent check of our site stats, I was pleasantly surprised to find that many hits for greeklish.org occur at our site's biography page on Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. A fair amount of hits come from Google and people have also linked directly to the bio page from a World War II discussion forum and from the Swedish Wikipedia entry on Zoya.

Because this section seems to generate a bit of interest, I have expanded it a little within the last week or so. I have now added an image gallery that contains images from several books on Zoya and I will be adding additional images from postcards, books and other resources when possible. Additionally, I have started transcribing "The Story of Zoya and Shura," which is a biography of Zoya and her brother Alexander. This work was written by their mother, Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya. It was originally published by Foreign Languages Press (Moscow, 1953) and the text is public domain. The first several chapters are now posted and once transcription of the entire book is completed, it will be added to the Soviet History section of the Marxists Internet Archive. My transcription could probably use some proofreading (hint, hint...) and I would greatly appreciate notes on typos or scanning errors.