January 2011
You know you've found the right one when she...
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We talked about making lists, staying focused and...
And it completely transformed Monday morning for me. Funny how that works.
Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But... →
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for Rand Paul to opt out of his government-supplied health insurance, either.
I feel kind of bad picking on Objectivists; it feels too much like ground-sluicing prairie chickens. A guy ought to at least give them a chance to fly off before he shoots them.
CLARIFICATION: The term “ground-sluicing prairie chickens” refers to the practice of a...
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Egypt, Part Deux
I almost wonder if instability in the Middle East might not be something that simply has to happen sooner or later. The reason western governments sided with authoritarian dictators over the revolutionaries in the first place was to insure economic stability and to keep religious fanaticism under wraps - better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. The revolutionaries in Egypt and...
Egypt
I can’t wonder but what comes next in places like Egypt and Tunisia and Saudi Arabia. Historically, the US has spent a lot of money and political capital propping up the very same authoritarian governments that are now being tossed aside. While part of me is happy to see people throw off their shackles, another part is frightened by what might lie ahead. The new bosses might rightfully have...
Except for that douchebag with the Red Sox hat and...
My Important Thoughts: New internet rules (for... →
dulltrev:
1. Everyone on the internet is a stranger.
You may think you know someone online. You don’t. The internet provides only a glimpse of who that person is, a highly edited view that they make themselves. Some are more open than others. Some hold back from shyness. Some hold back…
No disrespect intended, but that’s not a life I care to live. Fear does nothing but make...
I'm Riding in a Spin-A-Thon and Could Use Your... →
essdogg:
Hi there. I’m not so great at asking for things for myself, but I have no problem asking for others, especially when those others are extraordinarily worthy of our support. My wife, parents and I are riding in four-hour spin-a-thon called Pedal 4 Pattison’s, which supports the Pattison’s Academy, a wonderful group here in South Carolina that provides year-round programs as well as a...
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“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide...”
– Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide
Americans like to say we “support our troops”. This is a rather brutal refutation of that sentiment.
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Grocery Shopping
The demon likes to ride in the shopping cart when I get my groceries. He loves hanging out at the supermarket, especially when it’s crowded and you can’t move freely through the aisles. I do my best to dodge him, but on the best of days I seldom make it out of the produce section before he spies me.
He’s an asshole, like most demons.
“Making spaghetti tonight?” he asked...
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I just realized that I almost always leave the...
I’m not certain I like what that says about me.
Don’t get me wrong, though; I don’t feel like I have to have the last word in every spoken conversation. Just the digital ones.
I think it comes from the obligation I feel to respond every time one of my devices lights up. Unless you specifically tell me that you have to go, I’m probably going to respond.
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There was silence. Earlier he’d breathed, “oh, Charlotte,” crushing my hair in his hands, “My angel. You’re so wet for me.” “Always,” I replied, which was mostly true. What a tremendous mindfuck to have these exchanges as part of a financial transaction. Or to have a financial transaction in the shadows of these exchanges. Whenever clients deliver a pained “if only we’d met a different way”...
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Cutting Off My Nose
“You are going to screw this up” said the demon. “You are going to say something stupid or do something dumb like always. It’s going to end in tears. You know full well it’s going to end in tears.”
He jumped from his perch above me and landed rather gracelessly in my lap.
“I don’t know that. I don’t know that at all.” I said. “I’m smarter now. I’ve learned...
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My dashboard has contained an inordinate number of...
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Sixteen Days
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I guess that answers the eternal question of...
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Esquire.com
Of course, a lot of average Americans do have BlackBerrys, or something like them — “smartphones,” they’re called. And a lot of Americans can be depended upon to handle their BlackBerrys responsibly, to be “smart” with their “smartphones.” Not Roger Ailes. For Roger Ailes, having a BlackBerry was a very big deal — or, to be more precise, a very small one....
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REM - Supernatural Superserious*
Everybody here...
Is there anyone here who actually understands how...
Donovan - Catch the Wind
Standing in your heart...
