Well said, Gideon. I'll be honest. It does not surprise me in the least that highschoolers know less than they should about the First Amendment; but the fact that 50% believe the government should have editing and/or sanctioning power over what you say or write strikes me as unbelievable. Stodgy old codgers like me are supposed to be cynical, not sixteen year old children!
You silly, silly people. What have you done now? All of your focus on saving poor, defenseless American flags has blinded the educational system and warped your children's sense of values. They all believe that killing Iraqi civilians is freedom, while seeing a blurry, surgery-enhanced nipple is worse than. . ..No. It's so bad that there's nothing worse, anywhere.
yes we can, or most of us can. it seems un-funny. sometimes the satire works. check out theonion.com or chris rock if you're in the mood, but there's something about going through it yourself that opens the door to legitimate satirical humor. hemingway once wrote that "A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book." im not sure that this guy qualifies.
i have a question. im just this one guy, so i dont know anything. id say 75-80 percent of my girlfriends have read cosmo on a semi-regular basis. im not "familiar" with the publication, but i have a "working knowledge" of the content. but i am surprised at your reactions to the magazine. i imagined that the reason women bought the magazine was so they could: 1)dress like they were old
you need a job, bro.
Horrors are easy to come by these days. Horrors arrive in torrential rains or waves, or rise from the earth when subterranean rock plates collide. There is something altogether different--a sense of truth, perhaps--when one human kills another, however; you wonder about reasons and God, morality and faith. Horror derives from a lack of apocalyptic finalit
you're right shovel. i just read your article, and inject your post back into the active forum. thanks. TBT
my brother always says: "There are only two kinds of people in the world: people who know they have worms, and people who don't know they have worms." TBT
and it's a very fair thing to say, shovel. i have no direct connection to OKC, and though i experienced the bombing as one experiences tragedy, nevertheless it's not the same. i don't blame you or anyone for such passionate responses. . .i just wish, in general, we could look at murderers and other criminals we see as the "worst sort" as human beings who come from somewhere. if we don't do something to fix the "somewhere", then there will be more TM
may whatever gods exist have mercy on your soul. TBT
me=bleeding heart liberal. what makes someone do something terrible? does TM kill all those people because he's an a-hole, or because something is wrong with him? before i say the other thing on my mind, i should say that for the most part i always enjoy your posts, dharma, and more often than not i'm simpatico with your intent. i also like the poem and always have. but i do
Reason: the ability to judge based on experience and to hypothesize future occurrence. Everyone uses reason differently. West ern Civ. is based on a religious devotion to reason--and that is also dangerous. Still, we are too smart, and we cannot absolve ourselves by saying, "emotions got the best of me". We learn our emotional responses just as we learn our logical, conscious thought process. As far as change goes: "I know as w
what i mean is this: when you feel that rush of hate and it washes away reason, you need to wonder why. the hate is just something you learn throughout your life in order to prevent yourself from changing. it's a bad thing--not a healthy expression of feeling. TBT
i did too, but i also thought the first two (roger and me and the big one) were the best. they felt more honest to me than these last two movies. for me, MM was at his best when he kept things simple and straightforward. all of the cuts and slants and heavyhanded editorials are hard for me to stomach. TBT
Take care, Heather. I wish her well. TBT
People who have read my blog know that i have less of a problem with MM than conservatives and more of a problem with MM than liberals, as a rule. 9/11 disappointed me, mostly because i thought he tried to pass off his takes as journalism, and his journalism was shoddy at best. I also thought the music selection was tasteless and unprofessional. Moreover, while i dont give two whits about the academy awards these days, I'm glad that that the
It's not the same for everyone, but most people who are colorblind are males, and most see colors, just not shades of red and green. That isnt to say we dont see red or green, but when the red or green mixes with other colors, things start to look gray or brown. . .sort of. Danny: yeah, it's pretty childish. Even if i did cheat, what are they going to do, get me banned from the worldwide federation of puzzle doers? Manopeace: for th
My mother's father, Reuben Hoffman (you can look him up), had a defect in his color-responsive cells, the cones of his retina--making him colorblind. He passed the X-chromosome to my mother, and she forwarded the darned thing on to me, and to my younger brother, too. You get a lot of you-know from people--friends, family--everyone, for the most part, when they find
consider your life right now. it probably isn't too bad. if you put it in perspective, it probably feels, at worst, okay. but most people also deal with doubt, purpose, and misgivings throughout every day. something like a blackhole may seem frightening, but in my mind it is something unknown, something that proves that we don't know everything now (and probably never will), but one day we (or h
it's a good thought. i have a belief, though, that words shape our reality. labels and thought patterns both tend to recreate reality. good post, zoo.
sorry. i must not have understood: Somehow in this society people have somehow become so obsessed with what others say or what they read that somehow they can become so enraged or saddened by words, just words...I can understand the emotion behind it if uttered in an angry and/or condescending way.....but the words can'
hey, why not put some hope in the fact that we know nothing? i know there are people who are people of FAITH, and i suppose no new scientific news could disturb such contentment. but for the rest of us, life is about chaos and wishing for purpose. when we encounter something like a blackhole, it proves that more exists than we previously have given credit. cavemen looked at stars. the ancients looked at stars. copernicus looked at stars.
something about words: there are plenty of theories which suggest there is no thought without language. language does not have to be the english system, or the french system. it can be a sign language system, or even a grunt system. any system in which two components exist is enough: sign and symbol. take the word "tree" for example. "tree" is a sign for a specific classifaction of plant life that grows from a seed, and all sorts of side
im going to say that those engineers are going to have to rework some of the basic toilet design ratios: there is no WAY that this poor fellah is going to be able to read the sport section from that position. TBT
im just curious: ive used a computer for the last eight years of my life. . .only as a typewriter with a screen. when email became popular, i thought of my computer as a typewriter with a screen and a telephone. recently, i decided i wanted to learn how to build websites. i didnt have a business in mind, i just wanted to learn. i discovered that the html was both easy and difficult. the basics are about as basic as things get, and i start
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