Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!
Happy Mardi Gras!
Month: February 2006
Being
You’ve got to be yourself before you can be anything to anyone else.
Wake up call
This is the punchline to this the Paul Campos column this week.
The only difference between the Gulag and Guantanamo is the scale of the crime. (There is one other difference: Stalin’s efforts to keep the homeland secure were not inconvenienced by independent courts or a free press.) The men who ordered this crime to be committed, and who are taking care to ensure that it continues to be committed, call themselves Christians. On the Day of Judgment, will it profit them to point out that they imprisoned and tortured just a few hundred innocent men? And what account will we give of what we did or failed to do when we learned such things were being done in our name?
The full article may be read here.
Video Bomb
Video Bomb
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At the top of the mountain
Father who punched teacher’s aide sues school district
10 News This Morning – Tampa Bay’s 10 News – WTSP
Let me get this straight. Father walks into class and commits assault and battery upon an instructor based on (false) allegations by his daughter. Father learns of the falsity of his daughter’s claims. Father feels like an ass. Father sues school district in an attempt to save face? What a tool.
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Nothing but yourself
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Web-Based Telephony Service Gives VoIP Access To Any Computer: JaJah Web Is Here – Robin Good’s Latest News
This look really interesting. Rates between US cities appear to be $0.0156 per minute. I plan to give this a try soon.
EDIT: Turns out it was too good to be true.
Investing in friends
Nobody sees a flower, really — it is so small – we haven’t time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
~ Georgia O’Keefe