April 2010
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Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Apr 28th
100 Miles Long, 45 Miles Wide
The size of the oil spilled from last week’s disaster of oil rig Deepwater Horizon is enormous.  That’s just the spillage in one week.  The oil continues to pour from the 5,000 foot deep well.  As of today, the slick is twenty miles from the Louisiana shore.  Soon it will reach the panhandle of Florida and then the rest of the entire Gulf Coast. The Exxon-Valdez spill in 1989 is...
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Apr 27th
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More Bad Journalism
A 23 year old guy was arrested yesterday in an Ohio airport parking lot.  He arrived one minute after Obama’s plane departed and drew suspicion because of his many police scanner antennas.  When approached by authorities it was noted that his vehicle was equipped with a siren, lights and he was carrying (legally) a firearm. Based on the scene and online profiling research done by a local...
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Breaking national news: An eleven year old girl who was missing for five days was found this morning in a swamp pretty close to my Orlando apartment. The solution was sooo obvious.  The missing girl’s sister said she had “gone on an adventure.”  Then the bike was found at the mouth of the woods on the end of a cul-de-sac. This could have been me as recently as last year!  I...
Apr 13th
“When you’ve gone over something again and again and again and again like I...”
– Pee-wee Herman
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Political Games In Middle School
In the news today is a story about some high school kid who was sent home for wearing an asinine Lady Gaga shirt that was deemed disruptive.  This story reminded me of a fond 6th grade memory. Freshly settled into the middle school environment, my friend Josh and I had been reflecting on the monotony of institutional education.  So we hatched a plan to entertain ourselves.  We would set up a...
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
Menus and details of this year’s Epcot Food & Wine Festival will be released soon. I looked at last year’s menu and picked out some things I ordered when I went with Irene.  1) Corn and cheese arepa from Chile;  2) Grilled beef skewer with chimichurri sauce, Argentina;  3) Aged-Irish Cheddar, Dubliner and Vernia cheeses with apple chutney and brown bread, Ireland;  4) Chicken...
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