Category: Everyday Stories
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What if we call them "shoes"? Will they stop being offensive then? Or how about "jugs"?
New post version. With update way below. The crumb trail. From the blogroll of Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams to Have Coffee Will Write to Sherry Candler on how “The Writer’s Almanac” radio program was canceled by the University of Kentucky’s WUKY for offensive content. Offensive content… (beware, I don’t want to embarrass…
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Nausea
There are days when within a few minutes of getting up I want to go into the bathroom and regurgitate every thought word and image my eyes and ears have channeled into my system since waking. that have been reduced to a yellow-pink melee of viciously spiced, potted human revolting my stomach. To add to…
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The way of all history
I was, I think, 19 when I first read John Hersey’s, “Hiroshima”. I was working in a bookstore. Preferable would have been a job at the real bookstore in town that I used to haunt on the weekends, a small, cramped shop that smelled of books, its shelves so stuffed with books, books piled on…
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The Return of the War On Terror
Heretik notes that GSAVE, the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, is the New Coke and that the War On Terror is back by popular demand or Bush’s demand, which is the new popular demand. I’d previously written that GSAVE wasn’t snappy enough. 13 syllables or 12, depending on if you split the “-is” from the…
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Katherine Harris is actually very sensitive
More here. (I took Tattered Coat’s Katherine Harris challenge.)
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The War of Reds and Greens
The above picture of a frozen lake of water on Mars was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. The story is here. I tell H.o.p. about it and he goes, “Wow!!!!!!!” and we get rather excited. I’ve just finished showing H.o.p. a few more Photoshop tricks after…
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"But it’s only a game!" — blurring the lines of war and entertainment, and with the help of George Lucas!
Pushing America’s Army at E3 2004. It’s only a game? That’s what some people are saying about America’s Army. But it’s not.
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Frag Dolls not content with gaming bloodshed
No, the Frag Dolls, http://www.fragdolls.com/about.php, so-named for… frag /frag/ n. & v. · n. 1 number of kills. 2 a fragmentation grenade. · v. 1 to eliminate other players in multiplayer shooters (fragging). …weren’t content with video game kills and bloodshed. As pointed out in my prior post, PTSD (maybe death) is finding out war…
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PTSD (maybe death) is finding out war isn’t like it was in the army’s hot fantasy combat video games
Note: Excuses for all the graphics. But that’s what this post is about. Sheldon Rampton’s War is fun as hellarticle, posted at AlterNet, begins… Years of writing about public relations and propaganda has probably made me a bit jaded, but I was amazed nevertheless when I visited America’s Army, an online video game website sponsored…
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This post is about Bush, Boy Scouts and Balloons
This is not a posting on how our lauded leader, Bush, was supposed to speak at the 2005 Boy Scout Jamboree last Wednesday, how security procedures had first 40,000 scouts go through lengthy security checks and how those procedures demanded that those 40,000 scouts be gathered and waiting in the arena for a full two…
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Mark your calendar to buy this book in October
Or rather marking my calendar to buy this book. You may mark your calendar to do whatever in October. Pam’s House Blend has a post on a new book by Jim Loewen that’s due to be released in October, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America”. A quote that Pam supplies from Publishers…
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Eclectic homeschooling with blogs
Klondike Kate’s Aurora continues her watch on the sun’s antics. Her enthusiasm is catching. “Science is cool” she writes, and if H.o.p. was a little older and interested yet in the sun and sun spots then I’d be reading to him her entries. A sample: There is an intriguing picture in the film strip on…