Mary Jane, Mary Jane
This could have been written by me (if I was with it these days – and okay, I do drink, but not much):
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Youtube Politics
Who will watch the Watchmen? Only us…:
NeoRacism and forced tolerance:
Each and every example of this has a relevant related news story or legal case associated with it. Sigh…
The First Amendment is shrinking, says John Stossel:
The best recent thing for libertarians? Obama:
An MIT Linguistics Professor Was Lecturing His Class the Other Day…
“In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.” Copyrighted under Creative…
DetailsSunday Song (800th Post!)
Gorillaz – Melancholy Hill
Switch (Early)
+ The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works:…
DetailsDethroning the Imperial I
From this week’s ToTheSource, comes Dinesh D’Souza: We have witnessed a moral revolution since the 1960s that has altered our public understanding of morality and spurred the “culture wars” that continue to divide America. This moral change cannot be understood simply in terms of “urban values” (Blue America) versus “community values (Red America). Nor is…
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When I get back to school, I will keep on the blog more, I promise… The song of the triathlon, Taio Cruz’s Dynamite: & + I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill…
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I have never liked John Stewart. He isn’t funny, and is worshipped for having a team of writers who tell him to say supposedly funny things. Most of all, his views suck, are totally biased, not well-reasoned (but do make for good punch lines), and are the reason why college students have the inability to…
DetailsProof that Highschoolers Can Be Smarter than I
The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010: Here I stand There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how…
DetailsSunday Song & Monday Switch
Brandon Flowers of The Killers – Crossfire & + He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this: American planes, full of…
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