#183:
i could not resist, since we're playing Tower of Babel today -
Iä! Iä! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
there, now i feel much better.
as most of my own research is conducted in bookstores, i avoid the business, self-help, and bestseller sections for pretty much the same reason: conventional wisdom is seldom wise. books with "leaders" or "leadership" in the title are as bad as books with "prophecy" or "diet".
LOL about regnery - i'm currently clearing copy permission on one of their texts for a professor. the guilty shall remain nameless.
#42 ::: Xopher :::
which bears a striking resemblance to the ever-popular:
what [group of which i am not a part] need to do to [choose 1: improve their credibility... win an election... get my sympathy... deserve public services for which they already pay taxes... purge their ranks of extremists... behave/appear in a manner more resembling myself... i could go on] is...
my own favorite flamism for which i take full responsibility in using to lower the level of discourse: "...and that's why i'm not a liberal, i'm a RADICAL!"
you're all wrong: it's hugh grant's fault.
as for the blogosphere, it's atrios' fault.
i am sensitive to a lot of american regional coloquialisms. as a child of the northwest in the 70's i recall the shock of the new at hearing an older, more cosmopolitan and sophisticated second cousin from the east use the terms "excellent" and "wicked". thanks to mike myers the former is now ubiquitous. do kids say "wicked" now?
a couple who host regular dinner parties at their house in the 'burbs have a friend who's CIA who "can't talk about the job" for the most part, but does hold forth fairly openly and honestly about the issues of the day. when it's all said and done, and i don't think the guy is really much of a BS artist, i get the sense he and his colleagues really don't have time for crap like this - that it's more the purview of fringe elements in the profession who have somewhat gone off the rails. the others are busy actually trying to get important stuff done, and are irritated by these loose cannons running around. makes me wonder just how much the job is a "set your own schedule" line of work.
HEY NSA GUYS. let me save you the effort of looking it up: it's spelled B-U-P-R-O-P-I-O-N
"and then they came for me, and i didn't answer the door because i was still in bed"
#23 ::: Serge ::: (view all by) ::: April 12, 2007, 11:13 AM:
'If you suddenly had $11,000,000,000 cash...'
I'd move back to the Bay Area.
ROTFLMFAO
you'd have to be making about that much annually.
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