Our underprivileged graduate students...
Sad really, but And this is what our suffering graduate students go through in order to fund their education...well, that and sell sperm and eggs and organs and stuff......
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The unscrupulous and the ignorant--Christian Sharia, Muslim Leviticus
But the employment data do suggest an economy that is slowly healing, an economy in which declining consumer debt burdens and a housing revival have finally put us on the road back to full employment....
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The unscrupulous and the ignorant--Christian Sharia, Muslim Leviticus
But the employment data do suggest an economy that is slowly healing, an economy in which declining consumer debt burdens and a housing revival have finally put us on the road back to full employment....
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Rock and Roll, Time, Nationstates, and Blasphemy -- Can I get a Fatwah!
On this, what would have been John Lennon's 71st Birthday--Just for a second, let's take time out from our political quibbling and ask two critical questions -- 1. IS THERE ANY PURPOSE SERVED...
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Trying not to lose it, but tune it out -- AND IT"S NOT WORKING!!!
Persona aside, I tend not to pick fights over politics with strangers. If they’re saying things that are totally batshit, well, I probably will not be able to convince them otherwise and the sake of...
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Dear god, get the idiots to stop shouting!
Persona aside, I tend not to pick fights over politics with strangers. If they’re saying things that are totally batshit, well, I probably will not be able to convince them otherwise and the sake of...
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Like Nelson on his tower, watching his world collapse....or not
The world is getting to be an odd place these days. There was a time, chronicled particularly well by Robert Sherrill decades ago in Gothic Politics in the Deep South. In it, he chronicles the sort of...
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Behind the scenes peak at the Cabal of Clowns...
It occurs to me that Orwell got a lot right but not quite everything. Newspeak is definitely among us, but at it's most insidious, it's corporate jargon, talk and general nonsense. Where we work has...
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Problems and perspective at the Karma Bar and Grill
If you watched the HBO series “Rome,” you saw a re-enactment of Julius Caesar’s triumph of 46 BC: Caesar riding in a golden chariot, his face painted red, dressed in purple and white robes, a slave...
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Not so easily dismissed...
"Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed that easily." Dorothy Day Ok, the election is over. The irrelevant continue babbling, and the nonidelogue technocrats who enable the ideological...
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By the time you're 30 gonna look 65...
[video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFe78Cm0YCE&feature=related]You know, it bothers me that I know who Lindsay Lohan is and that I have an opinion on her. Since I remember what Elizabeth Taylor...
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Pterodactyls and Carmel and Michelle Bachman's Bra and Marginal Tax rates
John Boehner delivers Alternative Proposal to the White House"Where have you gone Abbie Hoffman, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you..." My friend, occasional collaborator in the...
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LIfe sucks when you will your own extinction...
Shot in the ass, the hero crawled away into the brush--"The Boss is Crazy Too: The Story of a Boy and his Dog of a Boss, Mel Lazarus, 1963]Republican Candidate Vetting Process 2012George Will made a...
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Merry Christmas is what they tell me...
While looking for some pictures to tie this piece together, I discovered this – The Greek Christmas Goblins not to be confused with Krampus. Krampus is there to screw with the bad children, but the...
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Moments of clarity amidst sadness, confusion and disorientation
For no good reason except that my wife's ongoing adventure with colon cancer made me wonder, I scheduled a colonoscopy, and went to the Weed Army Community Hospital at Fort Irwin yesterday to do the...
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Too much of nothing
Friend of mine in Concord, California has an incredibly bizarre job – he's a coordinator for Disabled Student services at a district junior college. He's actually a pretty nice guy, like a lot of other...
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More too much of nothing, part II…send them all my salary by the waters of...
NRA Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are seriously deranged; it's one thing to roll out the same old talking points, but they have responded to the perceived threats to gun ownership (there is none) with a...
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Virtue, vice and traditional values…
One of my buddies lives in the hills of rural New England. He's involved in structural steel design and fabrication and does work on the side as well as an independent. This is of course very common in...
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Soles worn thinner than my smile….
My friend Katey Laurel of Denver and Steamboat, Colorado is sort of a contradiction – persona and attitude of a hippie Dale Evans – which she loved when I called her, admitting to having proudly swung...
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"With repetition comes habit; with habit comes discipline; and, with...
MG Larry Lust representing the United States Army at a Ceremony in the Republic of Ireland.The Great Larry J. Lust, Major General, US Army (Retired) was one of my commanding officers. He and I...
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