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August 18, 2005

Following Jesus: Rated E for everyone

"Transcending the blood and violence found in many popular video games, a small band of believers want to forsake guts and gore for God, trade bloodshed for the Bible." Clean and wholesome - that's the Bible alright. No hidden sex scenes or violence there. My favorite quote is "They don't have fights. You just have to follow Jesus and pick up little crosses for points." Now that this culture battle has been won, we can really get to work on getting Jesus on Blue's Clues.

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August 16, 2005

laptops for $50

What would you do for a $50 laptop? Piss your pants? Beat someone with a chair? Run someone over? Well, in Virginia a$50 laptop sale sets off violent stampede.. If we had more guns on the streets this would all have sorted itself out.

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August 11, 2005

The 51st state of Iraq

If we really believe that the United States is the best model of democracy and freedom etc... , wouldn't it make sense to not only try to model it in other places, but to expand it?
I mean, couldn't we just say "elect your representatives and your senators, get to Washington, and represent yourselves. You're State #51." The Iraqis could have access to all of our systems - social security, welfare, and on and on.
Or else we should just be honest, says "all we really wanted to do was get rid of Sadaam", leave, and quit messing around.
This may smell of colonialism, but for all if colonialism's evils, it's track record is probably better than the track record of "setting up democracies in countries and then just moving on because it's real easy and everybody will be peaceful from now on."

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August 04, 2005

oh lucy, you snorted all the meth again!

this article from slate claims that the meth epidemic isn't all it's cracked up to be, whichever way you look at it. It talks a bit about the widespread use of amphetamenes in the 50s, which was news to me. However, in retrospect, it explains a lot of I love Lucy episodes, like that one where ricky said " stay home unless you wanna get beat" in a funny cuban accent, and then lucy showed up acting all crazy. hahaha

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August 03, 2005

I never got to the real world

Working in an office feels like school. And why shouldn't it? The same people are there. The smart kid, the cool guy, the pretty girl, the funny girl, the stupid kid.
But the weird thing is that the hall monitor is there too. I never feel like the managers actually care about getting work done; they only care about keeping the peace - making everything non-unpleasant.
This makes new ideas die, because others might complain, or feel left out, or be shown to be stupid.
Oh well.

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August 02, 2005

Guile from Street Fighter II is a weenie

After 15 long years and hundreds of ill-spent quarters, I have beaten Street Fighter 2 with every character. It came down to the wire, with Guile uselessly spinning his legs at a haughty Bison, but then coming back with an unexpected sweep to end it.

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August 01, 2005

Why causes suck (or, you're a flimsy pietist at best)

In my short lifetime, I've been told not to shop at Walmart, boycott Disney, eat organic chicken, blah blah blah. I have yet to see that any of this matters, except as it pertains to me. For example, if I don't go to Disney World, the only person getting anything out of that is me, since I feel great about myself. Disney doesn't care. They're not making any giant decisions based on my actions, or even 10,000 people's actions. This is because there are certain arenas where my voice is simply not going to be heard. This is probably because I haven't put the time into studying and contemplating the problem to get to a point where I am shouting anything new at the people who are making the decisions. (Or even more likely, I don't have enough money for anyone to care about my actions - financial or otherwise - at all.) This is just another reason to get on with life and love your neighbor. As you buy your chemically enhanced chicken breasts from one of the 20 walmarts in your hood, smile at the cashier and ask her how she's doing. She may need some love. The chicken is already dead.

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see, ammilennials are right

The good get good and the bad get badder ("and that's bad meanin bad not bad meanin good").

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