May 2006

Pinky promise.

May 25, 2006

I just saw an ad for a “Nightline” segment titled “Celebrities Unmuzzled”—as if they had actually been censored, or even quiet for a while. Please. … A year ago, one of my students made me promise to attend her graduation, and I made her promise to graduate on time. We certified the promise with the witnessed linking and [...]

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ATTN Bunnifer.

May 22, 2006

I don’t remember much about last night’s dream aside from a rather scary rabbit. It was not violent like the one that thrashed the Knights of the Round Table or the one that subdued Jimmy Carter. It was passive, subtly menacing like the Black Rabbit of Inle. That guy scared the bejeezus out of me when I first saw [...]

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On “hurried history.”

May 18, 2006

Tuesday’s Daily Herald featured an article which caught my eye. It was about how local history teachers manage a particular problem, which is that history never ends. Teachers thus have to decide what historical events and trends should be taught and how deeply they should be examined. A lot of important and/or interesting information is bound to [...]

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Futility.

May 14, 2006

Once upon a time, in the midst of a conversation with one of my college buddies, I had an insight so profound and epochal that it would have changed how we view the nature of good and evil, clarified humanity’s place in the universe, and led to a workable design for cold fusion automobile engines. [...]

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How to make baseball somewhat more tolerable.

May 11, 2006

Baseball is my least favorite of the major sports, because it bores me the most. The seasons last far too long for my taste; knowing that there are 162 games over the course of a season takes a lot of drama out of the vast majority of them. The only games I’ll watch are the [...]

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Reality Show.

May 10, 2006

Today I saw an advertisement for a new reality show called “Solitary.” Contestants will be “pushed to their mental and physical limits while dealing with the primal and universal fear of being isolated.” In short, it’s “who can stay in a room by himself the longest.” The well has run dry; they’ve made a TV [...]

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Day Four.

May 4, 2006

My boycott of Wendy’s is still in force. Despite the cravings, the throbbing pain in my left temple, the itching, the shakes, and the fact that Wendy’s stock is up just over a dollar since my announcement, I will persevere. They’ll see. They’ll see. … They’ve released the first trailer for Casino Royale. After seeing Layer Cake and this [...]

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It’s on.

May 1, 2006

Those who participated in today’s pro-illegal-immigration walkout are not scoring many sympathy points with me. First of all, it disgusts me to hear any analogy between “people who entered the country illegally and are demanding rights, including citizenship” and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, aka “people who demanded respect for and protection of the rights to which they [...]

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