May 2005
The Archives
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Imagining a European Century
05.31.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Imagining a European CenturyAuthor Mark Leonard makes an optimistic and methinks persuasive case for the ascendancy of the European Union over the next century. (Hat tip.) While the article doesn’t deal explicitly with the recent French "non" toward the EU constitutional treaty, its May 27 dating makes it an obvious rejoinder. Why EU ascendancy? The EU’s power is […]
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My neighborhood is cooler than your neighborhood
05.31.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on My neighborhood is cooler than your neighborhoodQuick article about my hood. But they fail to mention the imminent opening of Graveyard Tavern, soon to be my favorite bar.
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Update Alert Bonus Edition: Rocket baby
05.28.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAfter further reflection (and more beer) I have realized that I have beat Robyn and sA on, not one, but two counts. One: Fearing hellfire and damnation (and feeling a bit destructive—and handy), I backmasked Def Leppard’s Hysteria myself. Just to check. (No red lights, sorry.) Two: For my eighth grade Honors Biology science fair […]
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Rocket baby
05.28.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAnd I want. And I need. And I love. Animal. When you make love, do you look in the mirror? Who do you think of? Does he look like me? (I am so, so ashamed.) You got the peaches. I got the cream. Do you take the sugar? One lump or two? Ooh ooh ooh. […]
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Phillipians 4:4-6 (New Commodified Version)
05.27.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Phillipians 4:4-6 (New Commodified Version)4Rejoice in the Market always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5Let your ambition be known to all men. The Market is at hand. 6Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your desires be made known to Market; 7and the peace of Market, which surpasses all understanding, will guard […]
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But they have to make money!
Isn’t it offensive that health care is a market commodity? (Like, you know, string cheese, a bass boat, or an iPod.) "But doctors have to make money!" Yes, they certainly do, and the market-based health care system we currently have is the only available way to make sure that happens. Why, in the socialized health […]
