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Posted on entry Delicate sensibilities. ::: March 08, 2005, 01:46 AM:
wake up people. if it's on the internet, your kids have already seen it by now.

they also have probably seen rotten.com, etc...

the true responsibility parents have is not sheltering kids from information so much as offering CONTEXT and PERSPECTIVE. "no suzie, i don't think this is ever going to happen to you at your school...but i think that's the point. because it does happen every day in some other countries to little kids just like you, and i think the people who made the movie think that's not right. what do you think?"

you know one of the things that might happen when a kid sees this movie? it might make him/her turn to his/her parent(s) and say, "so why DO you grownups allow these things to be left lying around, huh? answer me that."

if i had a kid i would hope they asked questions like that every day, otherwise i would feel like i had failed as a parent.
Posted on entry Just in case you were contemplating a pickup game. ::: February 02, 2005, 12:47 PM:
i think that game where you get your heart cut out is the one the ancient aztecs played. what senator frist is unaware of, perhaps, is that in that game, it was the winners who got sacrificed, as it was deemed the greatest honor possible. i'd be happy to oblige, i've got quite a collection of extremely dull steak knives in my kitchen drawer.
Posted on entry George W. Bush, theologian. ::: April 20, 2004, 02:26 PM:
maybe what he actually meant was "no [guitar] solos", thus trying to appeal to the nu-metal demographic.

ahhh, i got nuthin.

if anybody i've ever seen looked "not all there", it's georgie. he's like the old anna nicole smith, lately. "shuuut uuuup! what're you lookin' at! bring me my piiills! and some chocolate caaaaake!"
Posted on entry "Detrimental to the interests of the United States." ::: February 09, 2004, 03:07 PM:
ibrahim ferrer has more class in his left pinky than exists in the entire united states federal government AND all north american artists awarded a grammy this year, combined.
Posted on entry November 11, 2003. ::: November 13, 2003, 07:19 PM:
i want to find an aid organization that is sending food, blankets, clothing and medical supplies to iraq, and donate my camcorder.

the camcorder is the number one weapon of freedom in the 21st century.

got an extra camcorder in your closet? send it to iraq today!
Posted on entry Break out the clue musk. ::: October 09, 2003, 08:08 PM:
from personal experience, i find that a goodly portion of upper-level-income liberals, even the professional activists and lobbyists who visit the beltway frequently to swim with the sharks, don't surf the internet; they have someone like me do it for them. they're still in the 20th century as far as information gathering is concerned. meanwhile, we, their employees, steal time and broadband from them to blog, because they'll never notice.

dean's freakishness in this regard is not to be underestimated. he really is the most wired, and it could be the deciding factor next year.

boy, i would LOVE it if all of this blogging and blog-reading crap were something they paid me to do, instead of trying to figure out how to print their 20MB PowerPoint presentation on their ten year old DeskJets. every once in a while i find an article online about the issues my boss is lobbying for, and print it up and show it to him; upon which he usually scratches his head and goes "wow--how did you find this?"

easy: you know all that filing you asked me to do a couple of months ago? well..........
Posted on entry Top pick. ::: September 24, 2003, 12:34 PM:
i know this is worse first thing in the morning than finding a bug in your coffee, but merriam webster seems to think it's 'conciseness'. i looked it up, though, only because 'concision' actually sounded kind of cool. like a neologistic smash-up of 'concise' and 'precision'.
Posted on entry Jerry was a man! ::: May 21, 2003, 03:08 PM:
i was going to say what stefan said, but he beat me to it.

it's interesting to note, from a psychological standpoint, that mistreatment of animals is a feature of the early development of antisocial disorder. when an entire society does it, is the society antisocial? [for those of you who don't read psych textbooks much, 'antisocial' doesn't mean one doesn't enjoy parties, it means you don't care about anyone but yourself -- like, for instance, hannibal lecter.]

i would prefer the company of even the meanest, most foul-smelling chimp to that of most of my fellow humans. i'm sure there's a name for that disorder too. at least with a chimp you know where you stand.

Posted on entry It's just hard to imagine ::: May 21, 2003, 02:44 PM:
uh oh, georgie's going to be JEAL-OOOOUS [did you see the signs with the picture of tony and georie making out at the protests?]

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