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Thursday, September 23, 2010

OMG can you believe the news?

Have you seen the news lately? Watched CNN, maybe? There is a new trend in news delivery which I find appalling and disgusting. Vocal tonalities of excitement and horror and enthusiasm and dismay... in case we have no sensibilities of our own... Smart aleck asides and comments on the stories... good lord!! Apparently we need more emotional judgement and less neutrality in our journalists. Bodycounts alone are not sufficiently entertaining, we have to see these people as our friends and mentors?... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

You have to be old enough...

(I didn't write this, my daughter sent it to me... no idea where she got it from ) You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this. For those of us who sometimes get flustered by our computers, please read on... If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, 'Who's on First?' might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Now and then I follow a trail through Blogit...

and today found the final posts of gomedome posted almost exactly a year ago, as he was packing up to go. I am sorry for the loss in this community of his wit and knowledge, and understand well his views on religion and tolerance, and lack of tolerance where he finds it. What he has said about the American Christian paradigm dominating this forum seems also to me to be true. But I am not sure that it actually is true. (I am wondering now where in all that he placed me, if he considered my... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I have been thinking about sex.

I have been reading Randir's offerings in the mature audience listings recently, and wondering what is it that makes it worth the trouble of signing into that gated community. That has led to this. Divorce is troublesome and it seems that there has been such a split between the two most important aspects of sexual love. Namely, of sex from love. Now, many, mostly young, would raise an eyebrow, give a slightly defensive or possibly impatiently sophisticated response to any such statement, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 6, 2010

"Mature Audience"...?

I finally took a plunge into the MA corner of the Blogit world... saw some surprising things! "Mature" seems to mean "tolerant of what 'most folks' consider objectionable" and this means, mostly sex-related but also graphic violence and particular forms of stuff unpleasant to the point of ugliness. This was pretty much what I expected, no surprises there. Surprising is that there isn't more there. There are not many current contributors. Surprising is that there don't seem to be many readers. At... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

For TAPS whose grandson is going to Marine boot camp...

Dear TAPS, you express dismay and fear for your grandson, Peter, as he departs in a few short weeks for boot camp. Chances are, from all you have said of him, he has the determination and is fit for the task, so he is more than likely to succeed and graduate. And then he will be a well-trained member of one of the best-equipped most modern military forces in the world. And the leaders in that military are some of the best-trained ever in effective leadership. We hear the negatives far more than... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Hairy legs?

Now what's all this fuss about fuzz? Among the things I don't pay much attention to are the ups and downs of fashion and style. So the other day was the first I heard of what seems to be a burning cultural question nowadays: Must a woman shave her legs and armpits to be acceptible in society? What does the world--by which, of course, I mean Western society-- believe of a woman with hair on her legs? Or armpits with little natural tufts of hair? I can't help thinking that this is one of the areas... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Like majroj today... shaking my head...

So.. in casual, unguarded moments, in what should have been off-the-record disclaimed, but was not, trash was talked, frustration aired, exasperation expressed... personal opinions opined aloud, and clever dicks made clever quips... And thus another general falls from grace, this one the one who it seems could talk to our allies where others have miserably failed. I shake my head because I don't know the whole story, not a one of us out here has but indignant emotional bits of drama and facts... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

thinking of Afghanistan...

As I have done further research on Afghanistan because a friend of mine is there, besides our own Souljacker here on Blogit, I am much more deeply appreciative that everyone out there is a hero. The more I find out of how things really are, the more evident it is that we have some of the very best trained and equipped military on the ground... that the US and NATO presence is more appreciated by locals than the news tends to report. That despite the great frustations and failures to bring change... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Responding to Naut's comment:

Wow, that is a lot of words, a lot of stuff it takes someone with more than a BA in Anthro and almost(within a couple of credit hours) in earth science 30 years ago to really grasp. What I observe is that the sea ice is melting, which does not affect sea levels, and that land-covering icepack is melting, which does. All the ice melt desalinizes the northern waters. These waters, lightened by the desalinization, become slower to sink to the ocean floor, there at the northern extremity of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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