Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Recycled Post of the Week: Laziness
After spending my entire Saturday without leaving the house and without producing any positive benefit to society other than a humorless digression about vegetables, I think that an appropriate Recycled Post of the Week is the one that I wrote in May 2006, called “It’s Not Laziness, It’s Intense Contemplation“. If you have time to […]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Stop Vegecide!
The other day I was watching a cooking show, and the chef was brutally dissecting the most innocent of vegetables with the utmost speed, dexterity, and with the least sign of remorse. This got me to thinking how I am increasingly concerned about what I perceive to be a widespread and socially acceptable cruelty towards […]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Home Alone! My Generous Soul
For the past week I have had house guests and the last one finally left yesterday. Now that it’s just me, myself, and I, and I am home all alone on a Friday night, I have finally realized something important about myself.
During the week, I am a total bastard. I am mean spirited, short-tempered, unwavering, […]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Safety Dance in the Twilight Zone
The last couple of days, I have had the song “Safety Dance” in my head. Of course you know what song I am talking about. “S-A-F-E-T-Y” Dance, the 80s, Men Without Hats, MTV! Yeps, everyone knows that song, right?
Well, apparently not.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Stop the Bullets, Kill the Gun
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Recycled Post of the Week: Meandering
So here is my first Recycled Post of the Week: “Time to Meander“. I wrote the post in November 2006 and then followed it up with “Meandering” about how I had searched for the proper Spanish translation of the word.
Previously, I used to have smaller thumbnail images that went with each post and if you […]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Recycling and Sustainable Posting
Recently, many of my posts have been rather too politically-centric and simply less “fun”. Last night I decided to run through some of my older Digressions and found that I used to write funny and interesting stuff that some of my more recent readers (both of them) probably have never gotten to.
Next, I got to […]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Genocide and Politics All Around
First the American House of Representatives, against the wishes of President Bush and the urgrings of eight former secretaries of state, has decided to push for legislation calling the 1915 mass murders of Armenians a “Genocide”. This has gotten the Turks up in arms and ready to retaliate. The Turks have now passed legislation to […]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Palestinian Refugees Suffer in Lebanon
Amnesty International has just published a series of reports on the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon since 1948. There is an argument that if Lebanon and other neigbhoring countries provide better conditions for the refugees, then Israel will ultimately benefit because the refugees will no longer need a home called Palestine to return […]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Funny or Offensive?
One thing that is continuously becoming more and more disturbing to me is how the West has become increasingly anti-Islam and anti-Arab based on the stereotype that all Arabs and Muslims are potential suicide bombers, national security threats, and/or backwards. Similar stereotypes of other classes of people would not pass the hyper-sensitive PC culture in […]
