Saturday, June 10, 2006
Hooray for Prince Philip!
Happy Birthday to Mr.Queen of Great Britain! Phil "the Greek" ( though in fact he's actually of German & Danish heritage), first President of the World Wildlife Fund and an avid hunter (!?), was born this day in 1921. Famous for warning a student that if he stayed in China too long he would get "slitty eyes", this fine fellow is a supreme example of the sort of thing that got Mr.Thomas Paine all riled up.
“Dontopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it”
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Fascinating aside:
BORN ON THIS DATE: George Shelley, 1906
DIED ON THIS DATE: Mary Gates, 1994, a woman who has had a greater impact on modern life than almost any other person on the planet. (She had a son she called Billy)
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Friday, June 09, 2006
Hooray for Friday!
Today is June 9th, which also marks the first day of a golf tournament at the University of St.Francis in Joliet, Il.
St.Francis of Assis probably invented 'stigmata', being, I think, the first historical record of this bizarre phenomena around the year 1224. And much in the same fashion as crop circles, stigmata were soon popping up (or oozing out?) on palms all over the place.
Coincidentally, the inventors of post-modern angry and creators of "Stigmata," the band Ministry are touring right now. I think they are in Canada. "Stigmata" was released on a large round flat black plastic 'disc' called a 'record' way back in 1990 (last century!). It still sounds great. Or maybe I'm just getting old...
Fascinating aside:
TODAY IN HISTORY: Donald Duck born 1934
Charles Dickens died 1870
Today is June 9th, which also marks the first day of a golf tournament at the University of St.Francis in Joliet, Il.
St.Francis of Assis probably invented 'stigmata', being, I think, the first historical record of this bizarre phenomena around the year 1224. And much in the same fashion as crop circles, stigmata were soon popping up (or oozing out?) on palms all over the place.
Coincidentally, the inventors of post-modern angry and creators of "Stigmata," the band Ministry are touring right now. I think they are in Canada. "Stigmata" was released on a large round flat black plastic 'disc' called a 'record' way back in 1990 (last century!). It still sounds great. Or maybe I'm just getting old...
Fascinating aside:
TODAY IN HISTORY: Donald Duck born 1934
Charles Dickens died 1870
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Hooray for distractions!
Mr.Bush & his fellows' neatly-planned distraction has faltered. Said the President: "Our nation's founders set a high bar for amending our Constitution and history has shown us that it can take several tries before an amendment builds the two-thirds support it needs in both houses of Congress."
But never mind! Now we don't NEED a distraction. Military technology and the hard work and dedication of our troops & intelligence have succeeded in wiping out that nasty chap, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Hooray, Good News! Camus would be delighted and nonplussed at the same time.
Mr.Bush & his fellows' neatly-planned distraction has faltered. Said the President: "Our nation's founders set a high bar for amending our Constitution and history has shown us that it can take several tries before an amendment builds the two-thirds support it needs in both houses of Congress."
But never mind! Now we don't NEED a distraction. Military technology and the hard work and dedication of our troops & intelligence have succeeded in wiping out that nasty chap, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Hooray, Good News! Camus would be delighted and nonplussed at the same time.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Hooray for Marriage! Maybe!
Onward plods the effort to sully the constitution with an amendment that clearly won't stand any longer than the 18th did. (In fact, if the history books I was a-looking at are accurate, the 18th Amendment did more to promote the "behaviour" it was supposed to put an end to than anything else! Cheers!)
So I went to look at my bible to see what it says about marriage. I use the King James Version, of course. If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. (I wish those last two sentences were mine, but in reality I plagiarized them from a lady in my best friend's writing class). This is what is says in Corinthians:
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. -- 1 Corinthians 7:27
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none. -- 1 Corinthians 7:29
So either unmarried people should not wed, or even if they were planning to they shouldn't bother because the end is nigh, and there isn't enough time! Seems clear to me there should be a law preventing any further marriages, no?
Since divorce is so hard on kids, and so expensive (average around $15,000 in some states, much more if you are Catholic and need the marriage to be "annulled"), perhaps we need legislation to discourage mixed-gender marriages? Clearly this would have a far more positive impact on society. Divorce rates would plummet, wife-beating would all but vanish, adultery would disappear, & no more of those nasty "wifeswapping" activities would be going on...
Onward plods the effort to sully the constitution with an amendment that clearly won't stand any longer than the 18th did. (In fact, if the history books I was a-looking at are accurate, the 18th Amendment did more to promote the "behaviour" it was supposed to put an end to than anything else! Cheers!)
So I went to look at my bible to see what it says about marriage. I use the King James Version, of course. If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. (I wish those last two sentences were mine, but in reality I plagiarized them from a lady in my best friend's writing class). This is what is says in Corinthians:
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. -- 1 Corinthians 7:27
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none. -- 1 Corinthians 7:29
So either unmarried people should not wed, or even if they were planning to they shouldn't bother because the end is nigh, and there isn't enough time! Seems clear to me there should be a law preventing any further marriages, no?
Since divorce is so hard on kids, and so expensive (average around $15,000 in some states, much more if you are Catholic and need the marriage to be "annulled"), perhaps we need legislation to discourage mixed-gender marriages? Clearly this would have a far more positive impact on society. Divorce rates would plummet, wife-beating would all but vanish, adultery would disappear, & no more of those nasty "wifeswapping" activities would be going on...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
NUCULER HOLLERCAUST <= copyrighted picture removed (oops!)
Hooray! Hooray! This didn't happen today!
Hooray for nothing!
We all know, deep in our hearts, that nothing from nothing leaves nothing (this is actually an example of how there can be different sizes of infinity... see this link for a game with the devil in it for proof http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~mileti/museum/infinite.html), so today marks not only a disappointing non-apocalypse on the date bearing the number of the beast, but also sadly marks the passing of Billy Preston. Billy got his start playing piano for Mahalia Jackson (!), I think he was 10 years old or something (!). Mahalia sang "Satan Get Back" by Brother Claude Ely. She brought the blues to gospel, and gospel to the blues.
SHOCKING NEWS: "060606" is also the number for Rome! Right near Popey!
http://www2.comune.roma.it/sovraintendenza/english/albero/143/132/857/scheda.asp
Hooray! Hooray! This didn't happen today!
Hooray for nothing!
We all know, deep in our hearts, that nothing from nothing leaves nothing (this is actually an example of how there can be different sizes of infinity... see this link for a game with the devil in it for proof http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~mileti/museum/infinite.html), so today marks not only a disappointing non-apocalypse on the date bearing the number of the beast, but also sadly marks the passing of Billy Preston. Billy got his start playing piano for Mahalia Jackson (!), I think he was 10 years old or something (!). Mahalia sang "Satan Get Back" by Brother Claude Ely. She brought the blues to gospel, and gospel to the blues.
SHOCKING NEWS: "060606" is also the number for Rome! Right near Popey!
http://www2.comune.roma.it/sovraintendenza/english/albero/143/132/857/scheda.asp
