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Don’t say it.
But you-
Don’t even say it, because I know.
[in unison]
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging!
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging!
Told you I knew.
Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?
Tags: (in)humanity, blogging, dialogue, excuses, family, HTML, illness, inner critic, judging, Lunarpages, PHP, web host
The mindset represented by this sign is what I mean when I refer to the Orange County city of Irvine as a soulless, planned-community hellscape. If I hadn’t spent 90% of my waking hours at the area’s one oasis of culture, the UCI Fine Arts village, I’d never have stayed there for four years.
Full disclosure: I took this picture in 1993, a little bit before the advent of the cameraphone. Still, I think any reasonable person will agree that it qualifies as a folly. This little roadside want ad stayed up for at least a week or two, which gave me plenty of time to remember to throw my camera in my bag before the next time I drove by.
Tags: (in)humanity, college, Irvine, Orange County, sign
The following is text I composed for the “Additional message to President Obama” field, after I had signed my name to CredoAction.com’s petition “Tell Obama: The public option is not optional.” I urge all of you who read this while the health care reform issue is still current to do the same. Unless you don’t agree with me. No, fuck that — if you don’t agree I still want you to sign it.
Health care reform has been the issue of greatest concern to me for a long time. Therefore, in the following I will make every effort to temper my vehement language and trust that you will pardon me if a mild profanity or two do creep in.
If you punt on the public option, this whole initiative will have been in vain. All that would be left in the bill would be the window dressing. Window dressing, without a bloody *window*! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: (in)humanity, big business, Big Pharma, ethics, health care reform, Obama, profanity, public option, rants
How is it that I still occasionally think that I’ve seen it all? Specifically, with regard to the reflexive disingenuousness of partisan political idiocy? My hope for the reformation of our national miscourse keeps feeling more and more audacious.
At this point I feel compelled to alert you, my esteemed readers, that the remainder of this post will contain expressions garnished with no small amount of profanity. If this does not suit your taste, I hope that you will keep in mind that 1) you were alerted beforehand, and 2) it’s my fucking blog.
As I was saying… today’s attempt to make my head explode comes courtesy of Stephen Hayes and William Kristol at the Weekly Standard:
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Tags: (in)humanity, Ahmadinejad, assholes, hypocrisy, Iran, lies, national miscourse, Obama, profanity, punditiots, rants, Stephen Hayes, STFU, William Kristol
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Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at [...]
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
Don’t say it.
But you-
Don’t even say it, because I know.
[in unison]
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Told you I knew.
Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, d’you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?
A lot of the public doesn’t realize how sophisticated the [pharmaceutical industry's] marketing techniques have become, really over the last 10 years… Essentially when a pharmaceutical company gets FDA approval for a drug, their marketing department can assure their bosses that they are going to be able to sell the drug, really whether the drug [...]
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