Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
In his speech at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Barack Obama says he will "ask Americans to serve" and "ask for your service." But will he ever actually ask? Sure, he can ask for our vote, and there a point where all eligible voters can choose to vote for ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Submitted to their website:
As a former co-chair of the campus group OMF, a market-anarchist student group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I was quite angered to receive YAF posters in the mail of George W. Bush and Anne Coulter [click here at your own risk, cringe!] is admirable defenders ...
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
I was at Trader Joe's the other day and it was rather crowded. It's amazing how many people are there on a weekday afternoon. Don't they have jobs or something? Anyway, the woman in front of me had a fair amount of groceries and was just standing there as the ...
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Monday, January 9th, 2006
I bought a book (State of Fear. Yeah, I know, I'm a bad person for even touching this book.) at the local library used book cellar. The books are priced at increments of 50 cents, so you might think the retired ladies (women?) at volunteering there would have it easy ...
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
(I hesitate to post this because it's minutae, but almost surely no one else will comment on this...)
Cringe! I did so each time I heard the pre-recorded warning messages on the AirTrain at the San Francisco International Airport. Even worse was that the previous sentence also ended with "on." Even ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
S. 676, March 17, 2005: " This Act may be cited as the `Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act' or the `GRAD Act'." Sigh. Reading this ever-so-contrived title made me laugh inappropriately at work. I was sort of embarrassed. I can hear them now on the Senate floor: "Really, graduation really ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
Why? Well, H.R. 3700, the "Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act of 2005," otherwise known as the "RIGHT Act." Oh dear. I guess the PATRIOT Act is worse. Do bureaucrats hire acronym consultants? That can be a whole job, disturbing as it is.
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
Man arrested for tipping Yikes. And hypnosis really changes your mind...skeptical?
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
A few people, men, I assume, have a sticker across the top of their windshields that say "Fear This!" I don't get it. Sounds a bit Hobbesian.
Last week I saw John Deer hats and t-shirts on sale in a department store. Apparently the "farmer look" is in ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
I was biking home from work the other day, and a two kids, 6 and 9 years old, I'd guess, were riding toward me on "my side" of the street. Amused, I go the the left side, and suddenly they turn around on their tiny bikes, and say "Let's ...
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