Saturday, March 21, 2009
Kooka offers his congratulations on the Palin role-model
In a recent post, he salutes Bristol Palin for stepping outside her mom's comfort zone by declining to get 'properly' married to the father of her child. As is not uncommon, I find it easy to agree with Kooka. He also got me thinking about the conservative notion of 'abstinence as birth control.' We...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Provoked by Nautikos
In a tribal society, conformity is the ideal: unity of thought, of purpose. Tribal society is close-knit: everyone is brought up to basically the same standards, the same rules of behavior, the same definitions of right and wrong. Which is not to say all members of the tribe follow these ideals...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
"The only way to win is not to play"
That's the tic-tac-toe/ global thermonuclear war solution. But what if They insist on a game? To not play is not a winning strategy then, it leads to losing by default. Nautikos' current ongoing series regarding the lurking menace of the fascist Muslim intent to make Islam the world's only religion,...
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Monday, March 9, 2009
What time is it really?
My computer is, sensibly, on Arizona time. I can't keep up with the changes to and from Daylight Savings Time. What is this, changing the clocks in March? It isn't even spring yet! How can we Winter Forward, Fall Back? It makes no sense. Half my clocks say one thing, half say the other... I wake up...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Self-destructive or what?
Have you seen the hulu alien commercials? Alec Baldwin is a funny guy! Well-made commercial, it will win awards, probably... But the message? "We have found a new way to give you constant access to television, which will turn your brains to mush..." Which is the more important message here? That...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Speaking of butt-dialing...
I used the term a few posts ago, over in the Ciel Show, I believe it was, and was basically making it up as I wrote--and a number of comments suggested that it was indeed a previously-unheard expression. But guess what! It has turned up in a commercial for a phone with a flip-case... "No more...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
If you've missed this...
as it has made the rounds of the Internet, here it is for your amusement: Here’s a prime example of ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus’ offered by an English professor from an american university. The professor told his class, ‘Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story....
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Friday, February 6, 2009
If I could give an award for the Great American Family,
it would go to TAPS and her family, from her parents to her kids! Every time she tells us a story about her life, I am struck with the love and intelligence, the generosity that flowed from her parents, making the very best of lives, the most solid family with good and enduring values despite...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
a response to Naut's response to mneme, part 2
While a lot of criticism of religion begins and ends with atrocity, it is the balanced view that the same thing that gave rise to Inquisitions and their ilk also gave us the things you name: Some people are inspired to light, some, to darkness. The matter of concern here, as I see it, is that the...
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Choosing An Editor
We do, most of us, have friends and/or family who will read what we write, and tell us what they think of it. But the people who like you or compete with you or measure you against other mutual acquaintances--these are your audience, but not so much your best choice in editors. An editor,...
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