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Book Review on
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
By Amy Goodman and David Goodman [siblings]

Amy Goodman hosts Democracy Now!, a one-hour weekday television and radio simulcast broadcast over 500 radio and TV stations. She and her brother also contribute regular columns online and to Mother Jones ( Read more... )

( 'And oh, by the way, in any organization you can expect 20% of the team members to do 80% of the work. And the other 80% of the lazy asses slack and put in a minimum effort -- getting 20% of the work done.'
-- Lieutenant Mike Weber, USN in September 1998 during Introduction to Naval Operations at Northwestern University )

It never fails! I always intend to post on the regular, and I end up going 1-2 months without posting a damn thing. I can certainly relate to what several of my buddies have said: Rockie has said she has a hard time posting because she always ends up sharing more than she intends to or has time for; Eric has lamented how many of us have seemed to ( Read more... )

Happy 87th birthday to my dziadek!
Elliot and I went to see Spider-Man 3 this past weekend. I have to agree with Eric's assessment of how the movie sucked. Requoting what I commented on his post:

Your crowd sounds a lot better than the crowd that Elliot and I had yesterday at the Kerasotes in west Evansville ( Read more... )

Earlier I alluded to my "eidetic memory," which is a phrase sometimes used by Seven Of Nine / Annika Hansen in Star Trek: Voyager (Seasons 4-7). I believe that it is akin to a photographic memory, but my Greek is still weak. I hope that answers your question, John! It was awesome celebrating your birthday with you at Pizza Hut and good to see you ( Read more... )

In my last entry, ILLinois, Part I, I basically omitted the reason for the odd title of the post -- not to mention the happenings of my existence between mid-January and now. Suffice it to say: I have contemplated the conversation that I had with my brother and my Papi and decided that it does more harm than good to broadcast the specifics of my ( Read more... )

Not including my most recent birthday-wishes post on Xanga, LiveJournal, and MySpace, it has been about 100 days since I posted anything of substance on any of those sites. First thing's first: I will address the gracious words from my guests in my December 19th blog on Xanga, "Random Holiday Cheer." John and his friend, Kevin, deserve my thanks ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, Elliot!
I have managed not to post any weblog entries for a month and a half; the same goes for my comments. *Sigh* One of my buddies probably put it best when she said that she is behind in everything. It's oppressive, no doubt.

Well, at least I can leave some workout numbers for your scrutiny and posterity:

( Workout Details for the last 7 weeks (44-50) )

I have had this song in my head all day. I believe that my little siblings have caught onto it, too. :-(

The Christmas list that John left for me seems to have some ostensibly omitted items that he had told me he had wanted months and months ago; I am sure that he would still like to have 'em. At the moment, since my employer has actually ( Read more... )