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| Thursday 24 August |
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[5:14 pm] The sweet smell of success
I love it when someone deletes one of my comments from their blog entry. It means I've said something true.
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| | Thursday 09 March |
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[10:36 am] Long time no blog
But I had to share with y'all. This made me cry.
KROQ is currently playing: Godsmack - Speak to Me |
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| | Tuesday 13 December |
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[3:50 pm] Not surprising, but nonetheless upsetting
Now and again we hear accounts of the Village Idiot actually being a power-mad, whining brat. We hear about how he makes rude gestures at protesters exercising their waning Constitutional right to free speech, and that he controls who asks questions at "public" appearances, as well as what those questions are.
This is the first actual quote that may support the image that at best, he's not very levelheaded...and at worst he's a power-mad brat who shouldn't get elected to be president of his elementary school, much less the United States. The article confirms his condemnation of the Constitution, but not the "I'm CIC, do it my way" comment that's nearly as upsetting. I also acknowledge there is very little context given.
Still. That's not cool.
Currently playing in my head: Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek |
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| | Thursday 10 November |
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[9:16 am] Always good for a laugh
...these Prairie Muffins are.
However, if they are failing to point people to the Savior of the world after helping them acknowledge a Creator, then they are as guilty as Thomas Jefferson of taking scissors to the Bible.
Mmmm, Bible origami.
As I read on, I wonder what's so evil about being pragmatic. If a person holds an ideal very strongly, and the best way to share that ideal with others and achieve an end (like "the crown rights of Jesus Christ" as mentioned in the entry), surely a temporary divergence (provided it doesn't require egregious abuses) is forgiveable. Better to wander off the beaten path and find the Way that will get you and humanity there than to walk the path others have trodden before...and failed.
Not that I care, mind you. These people can stick to their ideals all they want -- it means they'll never truly threaten Truth and Reason. Which is fine with me.
Currently playing on the WinAmp jukebox: Silence |
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| | Thursday 27 October |
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[11:19 am] Not again
It appears that if I don't manufacture some drama every now and again, problems will drop themselves into my lap. Real problems. Scary problems with big teeth and slavering maws and dire consequences. I am tired of fighting these problems.
Currently playing in my head: Tool - Stinkfist |
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| | Monday 19 September |
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[8:52 pm] It's that time of year again
That's right, kids.
Arrrgh, matey. I wuz born in th' bowels o' the earth, sulficatious and hotter than the blast o' a spanish cannon. Me golden face may sometimes be striated, an' even octahedral. I've a specific gravity that swims somewhere around 5.0, as like as not, and a conchoidal fracture, and am polymorphic with mah goodly chum, Marcas.
It's talk like a pyrite day.
Currently playing in my head: Seether - Love Her |
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| | Sunday 11 September |
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[4:33 am] Different perspectives
Although the Prairie Muffins irritate, I respect Carmon for being a reasonably nice, if somewhat misguided person. This guy, however, is just an ass.
I try to give him the benefit of the doubt, thinking he can't possibly be as dumb as he appears. But when challenged, whether intelligently or not, he stoops to the standard conservative pundit tactic: he becomes condescending and refuses to address whatever point (however valid) that has been made. As if laughing at a person automatically refutes their point.
Perhaps I'm being harsh. He doesn't always talk down to his detractors. Sometimes he tries to lose challengers in tangles of twisted logic. He likes to use big words like hermeneutic. I assume this is, like the condescension, because he has no real point to make. (I'm sure he tells himself that he doesn't need to make a point, and that the opponent is clearly wrong, thus deserving of ridicule. Whatever helps him sleep at night, I guess.) Both acting superior and twisting logic into uselessness can give the speaker the illusion that he's shown that silly liberal moron who's boss with a display of superior intelligence.
Some liberals know better, Bret.
Currently playing on the WinAmp jukebox: Seether - World Falls Away |
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