site admin on September 22nd, 2008

You know, I just saw this article in the New York Times about helping kids eat healthy foods, and all I have to say is, New York Times, do you realize that you’ve opposed every parenting book published since 1985 that wasn’t sponsored by the Christian Coalition (motto: nothing like a good smack to help [...]

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site admin on September 14th, 2008

I loved, loved, loved this absolutely fabulous skit from Saturday Night Live. Whenever I feel particularly rabid about politics, I am comforted by the fiction of Douglas Adams, particularly this quote about the two-headed president of the fictitious Imperial Galactic Government (they don’t allow presidents with a whole brain), which is clearly a stab [...]

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site admin on September 3rd, 2008

The world is divided into two types of people. There are people who have really cool skills, and they develop those skills over time and become progressively better at them until they become masters. These are the “got skills” people.
Then there are people who have really excellent, really boring skills. And maybe they major in [...]

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site admin on August 7th, 2008

Please bear with me as I adjust the theme for my website. As I mentioned, I broke it a while back, so I’m trying out some new themes — the look of this page may change radically over the next few days, but it’s still me! So here goes nothing…

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site admin on August 7th, 2008

Today I was looking up an address in my Gmail account when I found this link: Learn to Be Nice to Your Wife, or Pay the Price. The patience of Japanese wives always amazed me. They would live without their husbands for years because of an inconvient job transfer, or they would show [...]

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