Archive for October, 2005
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
James Carroll has a pretty nice piece in yesterday's Boston Globe ("All God, all the time") which is on the right side in the politics of religion -- taking many to task for America's "fake religiosity". But as vaguely-anti-religiosity rants that get into the American popular press tend to ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2005
I am (still) the #1 "I'm feeling lucky" entry on Google for "tight-assed porn", and the #2 entry on MSN Search for "tight-assed porn" (right after "Jizz Hut").
I have no idea why I am so blessed, but I thank the powers that be for showering me with this blessing, and ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
I went for a walk in a local cemetery with Oz yesterday, which is something we've been doing for his whole 5½ years of life -- in the stroller before he could walk, and then walking together once he could do that. (If you look at his Flickr page, ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
How postmodern do you get? Digesting blogs is a blog made up of just paragraphs snatched from other blogs. I noticed it because they snatched a paragraph of my "Feverish babbling: Thoughts on the 70’s music infomercial" as Ick, ick, ick.
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005
So, Oz gets Columbus Day off of school. And last week, they learned some of the classic Columbus crap that we learned in school -- you know, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two", and such.
But what surprised me a bit is that the reassessing of ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
A couple of years ago, Bush told a group of Palestinians (including now-President Abbas) that God told him to invade Iraq. It was reported outside the U.S. and in "fringe" places here (like Common Dreams’ excellent 2003 piece by Ira Chernus, Did Bush Say God Told Him To Go ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
I've been pretty sick for the last two days, and so I've spent a lot of time in bed, some of it watching TV. I find TV kind of soothing when I'm sick -- just sucks up enough of my attention to keep me from thinking about how crappy ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the O.J. verdict. NPR has some nice stuff on it that I heard in the car today (NPR : O.J. Simpson Verdict Leaves Lasting Legacy).
And how did Nicole's murderer spend the day? Signing footballs at $95 a pop at a Horror-themed collectables ...
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