I just got the most interesting and useful piece of spam ever. I never thought I would type those words.

TV Watch Wed, Mar 1, 2006 at 1:10 PM
Reply-To: jim@televisionwatch.org
To: Jonathan Wisniewski According to news reports in the Associated Press and Reuters, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to rule on approximately 40 ( Read more... )

I've always loved short stories; I have an appreciation for literature (and most types of art in general), but there's something really admirable in a writer who can achieve something beautiful in a short amount of time.

Apparently, Terry Brisson is one of those people.

Give it a read-through, it's only about 700 words.

I'm not sure, but this is at least a good approximation of where I've been:


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Oh nooess!!!!!1111 The sky is falling!Liberty has died today! Societal progress has been halted! The venerable Senator Kerry is right - "The vote today is whether or not we will take a stand against ideological court-packing." We might as well pack our bags and run off to the socialist, progressive paradise of Western Europe or Canada. South ( Read more... )

Published this morning:

This. Sigh. I just realized the title. Along with a few minor edits (like removing quotes that dubbed things sarcastically or changing a phrase or two) it changes the whole feel of the article.

Oddly enough, published opposite this with no collaboration.

Help me save Arrested DevelopmentI haven't thought of anything I can do short of buying the DVDs and telling as many people about it as I can ( Read more... )

I've decided to come back to blitz for the sake of convenience. However, I'm going to use gmail still to archive stuff so I can avoid those goddammed error messages. Therefore, I did something special before stopping my messages from being forwarded to my gmail account.

Dartmouth types will appreciate how special this moment is.

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So for a while I've been thinking this, and I'm pretty sure that soon I'm going to shift all my posts over to friends-only. I'll detail the reasons in a future friends-only post, but basically I'm assuming that the only people who read this are my friends on LJ already, and if not and you're an LJ member, let me know and I'll add you so you can ( Read more... )

The rest of the world seems to have forgotten, and the mass media may have decided it is only worth a second rate headline.

But I have not forgotten, and I will not forget.

It will stand as an example of what goes wrong when forces hijack a person's mind. I'll spend my life fighting those forces so more innocent men like myself will never be ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why I think anyone cares to see these, but here are the prescription sunglasses ( here )