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Blogging to this war is what television was to Vietnam. It brings the people at home to the war with an immediacy that didn’t exist in previous wars. I found ginmar through Meryl who found her, I think, through Little Green Footballs. Here’s a taste… ginmar: The Alamo is over-rated as a tourist attraction, dammit … Continue reading History is made of individual stories
NEWS of the WEIRD – Current News In a 2003 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, two Seattle radiologists described a 35-year-old man with severe abdominal pain but normal vital signs, who was found to have “multiple” heads from Barbie dolls lodged in his small bowel, which he attributed to his pursuit of the … Continue reading um, yeah…
You know, of course, that “dihydrogen monoxide” is water, right? From Guardian Unlimited… Wednesday March 24, 2004 The city councillors of Aliso Viejo in Orange County, California, are well-meaning, socially responsible people. And when they came across the huge threat posed to their constituents by dihydrogen monoxide they did what any elected official should do: … Continue reading Saving the world through beaurocracy
As for giving up, well, sure, if you want to. Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. It has no job security of any kind, and depends mostly on … Continue reading qotd
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