Lou Dobbs is very strange and obviously has a bias against the UN, and I'm not a huge fan of Hitchens, but the story underneath does seem really fucking scary.

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I'm actually surprised- with a tiny bit of effort, I've managed to start updating my Thai (and soon, Vietnamese) blog regularly. I'm shooting for three posts a week. I keep a few going as drafts, and as I finish them I set them up to post automatically during the week. (Four are in the queue at current.) Of course, I'm a shitty writer and my ( Read more... )

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If you haven't seen this... you need to.

I've been working on my Thai blog, mostly to get my spirits up.

Look, an essay on translating Transpotting into Quebec French.

The translation of swearing: The particular aspect of the monologue that is most striking
in this connection is the proliferation of swear words and the workshop certainly needs to
provide the basic vocabulary of swearing in ( Read more... )

Well for absolutely no reason firefox has decided to go fuck-all crazy and lose all my bookmarks... and also not allow me to create new bookmarks. And also crash constantly. Uninstalling and reinstalling does nothing...

AUGH.

And now everything is MAGICALLY FIXED.

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Well somebody broke my fucking keyboard, by somehow pulling the cord out. Sure it was cheap chinese junk from Thailand, but somebody better come clean.

I'm fucking grumpy and I have to wait three days for a new one.

I found an onscreen keyboard for Linux but I can't run it because you need an enter key to do that.

Maa maa maa maa
Oh toh toh toh.

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Taisho always have a secret personal history.
You must never ask about this.

Rachel Maddow reports on the Flying Spaghetti Monster... and seems to get it.

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Why does none of this surprise me?

A religious idea is just an idea somebody had a long time ago, and claimed to have received from God. It does not have a different status to other ideas; it is not surrounded by an electric fence none of us can pass.

That's why I wrote: "All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do. I don't respect the idea that ( Read more... )

Augh, I'm so useless!
( I have neglected to ramble on about Lost yet this season... )