Paris Burns. Let's Roast Frankfurters!

When the anticipated melding fails and riots ensue, the response is to try to buy, or legislate, the impossible. Invariably the cry arises that the government hasn’t done enough for the indigent arrivals. We must spend more money on welfare, on schools, on special programs to raise the unraisable and mix the ( Read more... )

I've finally successfully compressed endless if-then loops, which would take upwards of minutes to cycle through if there are thousands of database records, into one small MySQL query that takes, at most, a second or two ( Read more... )

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"It is truly weird. America, the most aggressive nation on the planet, the grr, bowwow, woof superpower, is also the most timid. Sure, I know, aggressive because frightened, the bully terrified by sock-puppets that might wait in the closet. But, my god, a kid with a burrito? In Mexico, where I live, lots of kids have burritos. You can carry one, ( Read more... )

One day as the Little Red Hen was scratching in a field, she found a grain of wheat ( Read more... )

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A joy it is, when the strong winds of storm stir up the waters of a mighty sea, to watch from shore the troubles of another. No pleasure this in any man's distress, but joy to see the ills from which you are spared, and joy to see great armies locked in conflict across the plains, yourself free from the danger. But nothing sweeter is than this: to ( Read more... )

Human life.
Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.Then what can guide us ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time telegraphing Alcibiades with Judas, as George Steiner is trying to do.

On another note, I'm wondering when the roundabouts of my life will take a change for the better. Really, though, what's wrong with the hermetic life; why can't I fully subdue my passions and brush aside temptation ( Read more... )