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Hourly pay in US not keeping pace with price rises
07.18.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Hourly pay in US not keeping pace with price risesNo shit, Dick Tracy. Where’d you park the squad car?
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Only just the night before, about eight o’clock
07.15.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Only just the night before, about eight o’clockI’m so proud of my versification of the Boring Prophet from Life of Brian from this comment thread that I’m giving it its own post. May Otis the (Almost) Prophet live on! 1There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, erm, And there shall be a great confusion as to where things […]
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If Jesus was to preach like he preached in Galillee
07.14.04 | Permalink | 5 CommentsLeaves a Mark has a great piece (first of three) on the role of the prophet. Will Shetterly posts some Woodie Guthrie lyrics that go right to the point of it. What I want to know: Do prophets have a choice about being prophets? Jeremiah sure didn’t.
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On institutionalism and old fuddy-duddies
07.13.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on On institutionalism and old fuddy-duddiesI’ve been impressed (depressed?) lately with the slide of a middle-aged friend into the moralism of an old fuddy-duddy. Specifically, she is convinced that “young people today” (YPT) have no sense of the common good and no meaningful sexual mores. Let’s take these two complaints in reverse order. Then we’ll look at what her complaints […]
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Demons attack Ugandan students
Unleashed by a local ne’er-do-well who could not afford to feed them the 300 virgin girls they demanded, several disgruntled demons attacked students in a nearby school. A police investigation soon followed, and the Ugandan anti-demon lobby is calling for tougher legislation against the irresponsible employment of naughty demons. (Really.)
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Please move along. There’s no election here, folks.
07.11.04 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHere we go. Tom Ridge is talking about delaying the election if there’s a terrorist attack. We managed to hold elections in the middle of World War II and the Civil War, and we were certainly in more danger then. But let some terrorists blow up a building again, and we’ve got to shut down […]
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