Great speech by Al Gore on the politics of fear… wouldn’t it be great to have an educated president again? Fear drives out reason. It suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction. It also requires us to pay more attention to the new discoveries about the way fear […]
Viacom’s launching a new channel: Gay Channel Now Set To Launch Feb. 17 No shit. That’s cool.
Had my first climbing class last night. The place I go to has a featured outdoor wall with overhangs and optional lead climbing areas that’s at just over 70ft. I haven’t done any climbing in over three years, when I was back at the U of Alaska. When I lost my belay partner, I spent
Referee shoots coach from visiting team… I thought for sure this headline was referring to a crazed bunch of adults coaching and refereeing Little League games in the Midwest. Turns out, no: they’re South Africans. Go figure. If this is all CNN will cover in its “World News” section, why does it bother having a
I’m not sure how any work gets done… Speaking of work, I’m getting out of here. All the bosses are gone, and I’ve got some juicy PTO time still on the books. Have a great weekend, all. Ciao.
We’ve got a couple people in from corporate this week, so the Friday doughnuts are back. Two dozen of them. You know what I’m going to start bringing to work on Fridays? A fucking fruit tray.
So there’s this gabe person who lurks on SF/F boards. He employs the use of words like “putzfucker” to “wake up” his “audience” (all three of them), deletes posts from all but his groupies, and tries to make noise even in the most upstanding of debates where heavy hitters like Robson, M. John and Mieville
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From: Running Scared @ The Guardian This is an extraordinary moment in American history. Half the country – including all the people I know best – believes it is trembling on the very lip of outright tyranny, while the other half believes that only the Bush administration stands between it and national collapse into atheism,
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From: The Impact of Weight on Your Wallet A study by John Cawley, a professor of policy analysis at Cornell, found that overweight Caucasian women earn 9 percent less than those with svelte silhouettes. And a University of Michigan study reported that the total net worth of moderately to severely obese women falls as much
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So, I have a confession… I read Conan novels. Yes, that’s right. The old-school Robert Howard Conan books with the lurid covers of gigantic barbarian man slaying Nameless Terror. Now, I know better than to read these books. I occasionally tote one of them with me on the train and giggle my way through my