praise exasperates me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chekhov on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
A beautiful little film about Anton Chekhov.
Archive for February, 2008
scientologie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fraud on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
“Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.” L. Ron Hubbard. And why write a book when you can plagiarize it?
mccain
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
McCain rated as the worst senator for children. They can’t vote; why should he care?
schadenfreude
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hypocrisy on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
“Even if you infer that various States acting through their legislative process have repealed sodomy laws, there is no protected right to engage in extrasexual - extramarital sexual relations, again, that can trace their roots to history or the traditions of this nation.” Now, no Republican D.A. who said that would ever be caught drinking [...]
a song to start your day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged music on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Emmy Lou Harris and Jesse Winchester. Dixie Chicken.
temple clothing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged LDS on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s short story waiting to be written. “A Lake Point man was arrested on suspicion of luring a developmentally disabled man from his mother at a Deseret Industries store, taking him into a dressing room and putting LDS temple clothing on him earlier this month in Centerville. “ And then it gets weird.
the electron
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged science on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
An amazing bit of film here. “‘It takes about 150 attoseconds for an electron to circle the nucleus of an atom. An attosecond is 10-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe,’ said Johan Mauritsson of Lund [...]
the secret life
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged judges on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Republican judge in drag behaving badly. Chekhov might have been writing about Judge Somma:
“He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through [...]
xkcd
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comics on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
See more here. (via BoingBoing)
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged punctuation on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
“People have lost fortunes and even been put to death because of imprecise punctuation involving semicolons in legal papers. In 2004, a court in San Francisco rejected a conservative group’s challenge to a statute allowing gay marriage because the operative phrases were separated incorrectly by a semicolon instead of by the proper conjunction.” (thanks to [...]
