Merry Xmas!
Posted on December 25, 2002 - Filed Under culture-society-history, food & drink | Leave a Comment
Having admirably taken part in the annual perfunctory, yet prolonged, shopping orgy, our fearless author proceeds to be attracted to colorful and shiny objects, and wraps said procured goods in varying shades of glittery gift wrap and puts them under her plastic Christmas tree with mirth and glee. Incidentally, the disinterested Lutheran-born does not understand […]
Read More..>>Arab Internment Camps - The Aftermath
Posted on December 20, 2002 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
Here’s a reaction I got from someone who clearly didn’t like what I had to say yesterday:
I don’t care what Islamists think about America..I already know ..they hate us. OK. Press on. The reason [you] really had to dig for these articles is they have no credibility.
Gee, with that show of openmindedness, who could ever […]
Arab Internment Camps
Posted on December 19, 2002 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
Jill Serjeant’s Reuters Article:
Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars. Shocked and frustrated Islamic and immigrant groups estimate that more than 500 people have been […]
Read More..>>A whole LOTTa ruckus going on
Posted on December 17, 2002 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
The worrying thing about the booting of Lott is that the Republicans who want him out aren’t doing it simply to save face with the black voting populace of this country, but mostly to get rid of an ineffectual leader who isn’t conservative enough. Lott may make stupid remarks, but he was a liability for […]
Read More..>>Woman?
Posted on December 14, 2002 - Filed Under family & friends | Leave a Comment
In the psychological sense of the word, I never really made the transition to womanhood. Seeing myself as a grown-up when I still feel like a girl seems to me a lot like a kid trying on her mother’s stilletos and clumsily stumbling around in them while trying to act adult-like. It’s one of two […]
Read More..>>Of School Pictures and William S. Burroughs a.k.a. Kidnap This
Posted on December 11, 2002 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history, family & friends, funny, kuwait | Leave a Comment
I remember once watching a late-night cop show that warned viewers not to put up pictures of our family members in our places of work. Someone who gets pathologically obsessed with us may exact revenge by stalking, kidnapping, or killing those near and dear to us. The rationale: If they know your vulnerability, they can […]
Read More..>>Mea Culpa
Posted on December 4, 2002 - Filed Under culture-society-history, funny, science & technology | Leave a Comment
“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” — M. Cartmill
Seldom can an individual’s existence be described exactly by one borrowed statement, axiom, […]
