December 2009
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
I am still eating turkey in copious amounts. Copious as in every meal. And I am about halfway through. I think tomorrow I will make turkey nachos.
I found this audio clip on the website of Media...
October 2009
3 posts
Spring 2010 is my last semester as a graduate student (God willing). I have all my required courses for graduation, but struggle if I should take an additional course recommended by one of my advisers. Tina is the horticultural maven for the research committee of my green roof applied research project. I noticed a paper taped to her office door yesterday of landscape design and horticulture...
“Poised and Ready” - Brendan Benson
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It is interesting how Janet Jackson’s breasts are more offensive to the FCC than Glenn Beck’s violent comments are…
I noticed that now is more than 4 years later than when he spoke the comments …which I guess is why the What Would Jesus Do? instance makes a scoache more sense… but I originally thought that Beck was targeting Moore over “Capitalism: A Love...
September 2009
8 posts
Facebook needs to get its shit together, geographically speaking.
“Where do you live?”: Simple Facebook question raises problems around the world
“The Road to Ensenada” - Lyle Lovett
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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly...”
– Mark Twain
Glenn Beck = 21st-century Joseph McCarthy
It has become apparent not only to me, but to exponentially larger droves of media monitors that FOX News’ Glenn Beck has found his niche: a niche of 5 p.m. Red-Scare tactics. From lambasting AmeriCorps’ community service simply because Obama has a background of community organizing, to assuring his viewers of Obama’s “deep-seated hatred of white people,” to likening...
August 2009
1 post
Boycotting Whole Foods is the Wrong Response
Voting at the checkout line may be effective, but the Whole Foods boycott is affecting the wrong people. Matt Embrey writes at ecopolitology that those who are boycotting the store after CEO John Mackey laid out some constructive criticism of ObamaCare in a WSJ op-ed are aiming to either silence or change Mackey’s opinion. This is an awfully unconstructive way to use your purchasing power....
