War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of a moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his own safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and ( Read more... )

I hate it when my friends realize how great a book is before I do.

DAMN YOU ALL.

If you haven't been able to tell, I've been ridiculously depressed as of late. Hell, I haven't even been able to get out of bed the last two days or so ( Read more... )

I'm trying to stay on the periphery of politics these days, as I have too much else going on that seems to draw my ire. Still, I couldn't help but see the following gaffe on CNN:

I think we see what happened in 2004, when Al Gore won the popular vote, and where the country has gone and the feelings toward government since then. I put a lot of ( Read more... )

""It goes to show that I would rather have a drunk Conservative than a sober Liberal.""

- "Sir John A. MacDonald"

Incidentally, these days, I am quite fond of gin.

I really want velcro shoes again.

Not that I have much of a problem with shoelaces. Usually I just leave them tied, then slip into them without tying/untying them.

But velcro shoes certainly do have a particular sort of panache.

A thought came to me tonight in the shower, where it seems I do most of my thinking these days ( Read more... )

Apparently, a Japanese official was fired for surfing porn at work. No kidding. I never expected this, not in a million years.

Dekashita!

So that's pretty much how it happened. Bug became 'The Bug Man' and his three childhood friends used the past to humiliate him to gain whatever it is you gain when you humiliate someone ( Read more... )

Trolling through craigslist today to get a reasonable idea of what rent to charge for an apartment, I came across the following:

$299 / 1br - Live-in helper for busy Executive. Prefer College Girls only. (va)Here is the offer ( Read more... )