Month: February 2006
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I didn’t have to eventually make a figure skating post, but here it is.
I’m going to be sticking in bed all day. I hate to do that. But I got blasted bad with either a stomach bug or something like food poisoning last night and have only enough energy today to lift the remote control, flit through some channels, reminding myself of why I never watch television, and…
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Chocolate fountain only on some Sundays
Another Boingboing pointer because it is about chocolate and because the new Fernbank exhibit is on chocolate which is an exhibit making a nationwide tour. I love chocolate but am no connoisseur, just like I love coffee but am no connoisseur, and one it comes down to it am fine with a really oily french…
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If you buy the "beautiful people don't commit crime, ugly people do" research, you are so easily led around by your nose
So Boingboing points to this Washington Post article that states, according to Georgia State University and University of Colorado research, if you’re ugly you’re gonna commit crime and if you’re cute and have a date to the prom you’re going to earn more money and not break the law (my paraphrasing). Bullshit. Never mind any…
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H.o.p. instructs me on art and I give just a tad return instruction
Every little budding artist is eventually struck by realism, at least for a period of time. H.o.p. tonight was looking at a drawing of two Egyptian women embracing, an older and a younger woman, in a story of his, and he was struck by the realism of the illustration. He decided to tell me about…
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H.o.p. is packing
H.o.p. is packing. No, he hasn’t decided to run off. He wants to go on an airplane. I explained to him we aren’t going to be riding on any airplanes any time in the forseeable future. “That’s all right. I want to be prepared.” So he gets out one of his knapsacks and starts packing…
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Fuck Guenter Lewy
George Mason University’s “History News Network” (byline Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too) has published 11-22-04 the article “Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?” by Guenter Lewy. You can read it yourself. I’m not going to go through it point by point. I will give two brief excerpts: The sorry…
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Paving the road for Democracy
Where are we going? What are we doing where we are? Where have we been? A minor visual aid.
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Go outside in your yard, pick up a handful of earth, and think about it
Maybe I should make a category for “What are we becoming? Yeah, well, where have we been?” Trail of Tears may grow by 2,000 miles if study OK’d By RICHARD POWELSON, powelsonr@shns.com February 17, 2006 WASHINGTON – The National Park Service on Thursday endorsed a study that may add about 2,000 miles of land and…
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Pointer to Living in the Heart of Chocolate City
Check out the song Living in the Heart of Chocolate City. There’s a sample available, and the full tune can be downloaded for $1.39. 50 percent of the publishing proceeds will go to NOLA’s Habitat for Humanity. Marty got the call to do production on it last week. Recorded by Gato Mahdi and The Whole…
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H.o.p. on H2O
So I was on the phone telling Marty to pick up water on the way home. Me: We need water. H.o.p.: We need H2O. Me (being dyslexic): We need HT0. H.o.p. No, we need H2O. I’ll tell you what H2O means. It means there’s one H and 2 oxygens and when they stick together they…
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What in the world is this country becoming?
People write in response to abuses in Iraq and the death and destruction there, what is this country becoming. And some write that if the media showed pictures on the television of the infants and children being killed, that the citizenry of America would rise up and put an end to the war, demand it.…
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Dovetailing Mount Rushmore with everything, positively everything
I was reading again last night (this morning really), elsewhere, the tired plaint of what this country is becoming. It’s a well meaning plaint, facing pictures out of Iraq. But it is wrong. Atrocity is nothing recent. It is nothing new. It’s just plain ol’ business as usual. And that’s the thing, that Americans have…