… I have only a few minor updates to mention. One is that I definitely must get my hands on those Bluiett Baritone Nation CDs that are all easily ordered, but never in stock anywhere I go. Second, I’m almost finished building a website, and I’ll probably link to it this weekend. Third, I heard from Charlie, and it’s all good. He’s off to the Great Sandy Desert tomorrow, which is just nuts, but cool. And he knows way too much for his own good about old, bad Canadian TV. Speaking of which, I’ll give a cookie to the first …
Month: October 2005
Republican Mammonite Haiku
Found a lovely haiku in the comments section of a post at Daily Kos on The Lies & Depraved Indifference of Republicans. It goes like this: every turtle knows Bush and the Republicans worship just Mammon It’s always in verse that the truest truth is spoken. Okay, not always, but this poem’s dead-on.
News From Up North
Found this among a pile of old links I planned to blog. Source unknown, but I’d guess it’s from the Marmot sometime back. North Korean TV really sucks. Trust me. Or see for yourself.
St Paul as a Duped Henchman of Satan?
… [these] are things which Mormon women submit to because their religion teaches them that the more wives a man has on earth, and the more children he rears, the higher the place they will all have in the world to come—and the warmer, maybe, though they do not seem to say anything about that. — Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter XV It’s always struck me as odd that mainstream people–religious or otherwise–laugh at the antics of street preachers, but take the conversions of the members of the early Church seriously. Take Paul, for instance. The guy hunted Christians, till …
Oh yeah!
The Megapass Connection was set up despite the fact that Hanaro’s connection was set up. The technician just flipped some kind of switch down at the control box. And the good news is that my connection is blisteringly fast! Here’s hoping it stays that way.