Here's my New Year's Resolution for 2008:
Not to laugh at someone's un-funny joke; and, not laugh to ease tension or when I'm uncomfortable.
Seems easy enough, I think I can do that.
All of you trying to lose weight have it wrong: just pick something that annoys others and stop doing that! Your weight doesn't annoy us, but you're crazy habit of incessant nose picking makes us wretched, so stop that. See? The world is already a better place.
It's my birthday today. The day is unsettling so far (am I year old) but it has an aura of excitement - the train into work was exceptionally slow today and the rain seems to be smearing everything when I look outside ::: enough observation ::: tonight is Birthday Night; or collectively agreed upon as Get Drunk Night.
Watch an interview with Naomi Klein by actor John Cusack on her latest book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine.
For work! I'll leave Portland the first week of September. There's a party in the planning. So, we've got that going on.
I'm excited about the new job, but I don't know how long this career will hold my interest - feeling kinda flippant and anxious towards the whole, "grow-up and find your career" thing. I'd like to do something completely opposite of what I've done the last couple of years; so that pretty much means I need to get a construction or hard labor kind-of job ;)
Or maybe I'll be a bartender for a while; or a late-shift card dealer in Las Vegas. The latter is tempting because a) it's Vegas (du'oh) and b) it'd be fun to watch fools and their money part so quickly, and I'm sure the stories told at 3am around a Blackjack table are both scandalous and beyond the pale.
If you missed Frontline's broadcast of the Iraq expose, Endgame, you can watch the full program online at Frontline's website. The sheer volume of incompetence that came (and is coming) out of the Bush administration was and is stunning. Their inability to think strategically and utterly failing in leading should be a case study for all citizens. It wasn't a blunder to go into Iraq, it was a failure to by everyone leading the charge from Washington to realize and internalize the facts on the ground. At this point, I'd say we continue to question everything that is uttered by this administration and only trust and listen to the words spoken by who want to do good but are against Cheney-approved tactics.
What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?
6:45am. Snooze button? Yes and yes; I usually hit it 3 to 4 times.
Thomas Sowell, writer at the National Review, suggested the following:
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.
Wow, Republicans badly lose an election and they start calling for a coup. How sad.
The most ironic part of this article is that Sowell is complaining of Liberal elites, but only a far-right Elite would suggest a MILITARY COUP would actually solve the problems he outlines. Name a military coup that was successful. Right. So somehow HE thinks the right people could pull off a productive military coup in this country - similar to those on the Left who think THEY can implement government programs that have failed in the past. Thomas is being intellectually dishonest and just plain stupid.
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