Monday, July 11, 2005
I was a big boy today, and I dodged verbal bait from some folks who were itching to 'prove' there was no God, no afterlife, no anything beyond Science. Normally I would've entertained some discussion, but college children have become so passe. Hell, even many professors have become so. These kids...
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Stupid Taxing, Stupid Spending -- Gonna Hurt Sooner or Later
I know. It's a radical idea, but here it is anyway. Lots of people I speak with, normally people who make way more money than I, are of the position that everyone should have to pay a lot of taxes. They figure that if not everyone pays a lot of taxes, then lots of poor people can't get free stuff...
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Friday, July 8, 2005
Sometimes I just ask for it.
I'm not going to name names, but I (and anyone else who surfs the net from my local telephone compnay ISP) have been sitebanned from a rather prominent environmentalist organisation's website. Why? Because I asked "Why?" and because I wouldn't stop asking other questions, such as "What about...
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Thursday, July 7, 2005
Supreme Court nominations in the air -- Not much justice being sought
Congressional Democrats are, in the words of one of New York's congressfolk Chuck Schumer, "ready for war" over the replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Conner on the United States Supreme Court. Really? This so soon after swearing an oath of moderation and civil discourse on, of all things,...
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Sunday, July 3, 2005
Live 8, Live 7, etc., et al. Entertaining, yes. But bollocks.
I know poverty and the ills that stem from it are in much need for discussion and action in society, but when groups of millionaire artists and billionaire entertainment industrialists get together at $4 million receptions, driving $280,000 Hummer limousines and so on it rather seems to me to be...
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Thursday, June 23, 2005
What? Liberals/Progressives in cahoots with Big Business???
It seems that the U.S. Supreme Court has set modern political labelling on its ear. How'd they do it? Easy. The five liberals/progressives on the Court (Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter and Kennedy) sided with the government-corporate money lobbyists to make it so that local governments -- and...
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Sunday, June 19, 2005
On death, dying, living and most folks
A friend of mine in California had a tough Father's Day. Her dad is doing very badly in hospital -- has been for a while, and it's tearing her up. A lot of her immediate family are being all "stiff upper lip" about it, and it's dring her a little batty. A lot of people don't know how to handle such...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
When Do-Gooders Attack!
After my nice home-cooked meal I sat down to wander around the internet for news. That took about twenty minutes. Then I started checking out what people thought about the news. That took until just a few minutes ago. During that time it hit me. It seems as if it is the good-intending and...
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I do some of my best work when...
I'm bored out of my mind. I figure 7 out of every 10 writers who read this will be nodding their heads and smiling about now at the realisation that they aren't the only ones for whom boredom can be a muse. It's rather like a strange zen state, boredom. It's as if your body and mind are looking for...
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Monday, June 13, 2005
DOCTOR WHO: A Fan's Look Back (and Ahead)
If memory serves me right, I began watching Doctor Who when I was around the age of seven. It may have been a little earlier, but I really don't have a good enough memory for that far back to be able to nail it down with certainty. Circa 1977 will have to do. I was with my parents and my sister on...
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