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  • googling myself

    The Detroit Lions announced today they have signed me, a free agent LB, to a contract.I am a performer-novelist-lyricist-chain-smoking-master-of-the-universe.I am an active church leader who connects with people as a com…

  • questions

    Comments?1. If it is acceptable to euthanize a given animal, it is also acceptable to use that animal for food.2. If it is inhumane to clip the beaks of baby chickens or to keep livestock in small confines, it is also …

  • springtime!

    this just in: the New International Version translation of the Bible is Gnostic heresy! Or, how the Protestants altered Scripture. More to follow.The sandhill cranes always stop in Alachua County on their northward m…

  • cold

    this morning I got out my jar of peanut oil to fry up bean burritos for breakfast... and the oil was thick as molasses.That's how awful cold it was in my house last night. The freezes have finally got so bad that my tom…

  • alive!

    My landlord is a good man.Yesterday while I was in class, he saved my house from burning down. He used the hose that I keep in the backyard for watering my garden.Other than the fact that all my clothes smell like barbe…

  • Enfranchisemest, and the bat house

    After seven years as an Independent, buddhagazelle has finally given in and enfranchised himself as a Southern Democrat. Now I can vote in the primaries.Two years ago this evening, I got home from work and sat around al…

  • Language Acquisition

    There are entire laboratories at the University of Florida where the working language is Chinese, Korean, Bengali or something else other than English. The lab director is a professor from overseas and selects assistant…

  • feeding the terrorists

  • out of context

    R: Wait, have you ever been good and heartbroken?me: Oh yes.R: Perfect.

  • I watched Boyz N The Hood last night and it's got me all homesick.The first scene takes place on the very intersection in Inglewood where I used to live... and I think it was shot on location. Opening shot, I jump about…

  • while I'm at it

    this is outright stolen from Criosta O Treorai Me, formerly SpaceMonkey of xanga:Bumper Stickers I wish I had:Orthodoxy: If It Aint’ Broke...My Church Wrote Your Bible.Orthodoxy — Ancestors You Can’t Remember Are Part Of…

  • "standard usage"

    I was a student rep on admissions committees at both Notre Dame and Duke, and now I'm a small business owner and adjunct professor. I help out a lot of local kids who are applying to the "name" schools and want advice…

  • whistling past the graveyard

  • B. O.

    My mother just sent me an email gushing about Barack Obama.She hasn't voted for a Democrat since the glory days of Jimmy Carter. I'm kind of amused.On that note, why isn't Carter running for office in 08? Who cares if …

  • surge

    so, a family friend is part of the 'surge' of troops that's been sent off to Kuwait in preparation for surging on in to Iraq.That's what it takes, unfortunately, for politics to hit home.

  • rayun purita

    Because I've been assigned to write an abstract on a thesis about the Yatiri among Bolivia's Aymara, figured I might as well write that abstract in the form of a wikipedia entry. You can find it here: <http://en.wik…

  • plugging

    if you're not reading machomakavu, you should start.Now.Her recent posts on the wall between El Paso and Juarez have been mulling in my mind for a while and were brought to the fore last night when I was listening to an …

  • warmth

    The azaleas are blooming, the sun is shining, and my neighbor has been evicted.H says he'll stay in touch. I hope so. It's lonely to not have his defunct car in front of the house, and not to hear his guitar playing fr…

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