"Toronto: May 30, 1987 - I should know better than to read even as much as a headline in The New York Times; although, as I've often pointed out to my students at Bishop Strachan, this newspaper's use of the semicolon is exemplary ( Read more... )

Funny and scary all at the same time!!!! What more can you ask for?!?!

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Sweet god. I just sat in a chair for 5 1/2 hours writing a philosophy paper on how "ancient texts influenced the philosophical thought of Machiavelli and the Renaissance." My mind is like a gelatenous goo, somewhere between jello and motor oil. I'm having self destructive thoughts, like drinking a six pack of Samuel Adams Winter Lager for example. ( Read more... )

I enjoyed another amazing couple days in mythical Pincado last weekend. Saturday was spent with my niece Taylor scouring the backyard kingdom with magnifying glasses in hand, overturning rocks and moss to investigate the goings on of the worms and bugs. We turned over this big rock and this worm underneath was so startled that he started shitting. ( Read more... )

something is wrong.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1344291,00.html

I woke up this morning and felt the entire world shudder. For as long as I live I will not understand how something so deeply foul could have taken place. How a leader could get more popular votes now, after having proven himself to be the most despised president in the history of the United States, is beyond my comprehension. He did WORSE in the ( Read more... )

FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!

Last night my dreams brought me a haunting tale of the future where we re-created a version of 3rd century Greece, replete with its languages, customs, fashion and food and into this re-creation we placed a cloned Plato. You see, someone found some of his DNA under a rock out in a field near Athens and so these scientists decided to clone him and ( Read more... )