Maybe we should blow up the Grand Canyon while we're at it.
I'm still stunned after reading this.

An Enticing Gorge Poses a Deadly Problem


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I'm so glad to know that "K-Fed" is doing something important. After all, we've already got poverty and racial cleansing and genocide and unwarranted phone tapping and torture under control. Someone's got to take care of the other important things.

Kevin Federline has a new cause: saving the penny. Britney Spears’ hubby, along with Virgin Records ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, something comes in the mail that makes me smile, and helps me to stay on track, to keep on going, and it's especially nice when things seem so discouraging, and I start to wonder if I've made the right choices in my life. Well, I'm not sure that they've all been right, but some of them have been. Perhaps.

An old student of ( Read more... )

It always surprises me how, from time to time, bits and pieces of the past seem to make their way to the forefront of the brain and come out in what I  often call "mind farts."

A "mind fart" doesn't necessarily make sense to the conversation at hand. They are just suddenly there, in much the same way a regular fart doesn't make its presence known ( Read more... )

we can set up our own publishing company and come up with real literature, not the pap that's mostly being passed off now.

I love this man, who is unafraid to say "the emperor has no clothes". Peck Rocks! (and this is what he wrote...)

I thought I was ready to read contemporary fiction. Last fall, after a couple of years of sticking to the Greeks, ( Read more... )

Libby court papers: Cheney said Bush OK'd intelligence leak

Thursday, April 6, 2006; Posted: 2:07 p.m. EDT (18:07 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors that his boss said President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed ( Read more... )

Michael Chabon wrote this and I think he makes some very valid points.

One of the problems that I've been seeing in writing workshops is that people not only take themselves and their ideas way too seriously, but at the same time, they tend to not be taking their writing seriously. Perhaps it is just the make up of the workshops that I've had the ( ( Read more... )

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I teach two classes here at the branch campus of my illustrious institution. It is located downtown, which doesn't give people many places to park, but that's another whole set of issues ( Read more... )

I never do that; click on "archive" but feeling blue and lonely and all sorts of pitiful shit this evening, I did.

My lord, I used to write in here on a much more regular basis, and not just posting "stop the war" rants (or something about Bush et al) either.

Why'd I stop?
Because I felt as if I was pissing into the wind?

Yeah, something like that