A Baudelairean predilection for rotting meat.

Well, we all knew that colleges (except BJU) are filled with hatemongering communist professors… At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs. … Kris Wampler was one of three students who sued the University of North Carolina over a requirement that incoming students [...]

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§473 · December 29, 2004 · 3 comments · Tags: ,


vicious blooming nebulæ attest to factions of their space, which, feeling Her, would captivate; linear in disarray. and there are many crests of salt for every tide that breathed a wave, for every weeper’s hour weeping spent; for every cleft in sea a vein of rime, as sleepers sombre mantle frame with dreams of crusting [...]

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§440 · December 22, 2004 · (No comments) · Tags:


My newspaper, though it occasionally has defensively liberal columns from local writers, syndicates at least two infamous right-wing windbags: first, the sometimes insane, sometimes sensible, often brutal, and always controversial Bill O’Reilly. Secondly, and most distressingly, the completely insane Ann Coulter, the Far Right’s resident Jezebel and perhaps the most cravenly dishonest commentator in history [...]

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§468 · December 17, 2004 · 5 comments · Tags: , ,


Seriocomic links an interesting point about digital media saturation: I’m finding that the “digital photo effect” is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What’s the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends, [...]

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§467 · December 17, 2004 · 1 comment ·


No holiday season would be complete without a few scrooges humbugging about. Way back in seventh grade, my eccentric science teacher, Mike Priesbe, read us The Physics of Santa Claus, which came to the blunt conclusion “He’s dead now.” Here it is, in all of its glory, along with some creative, if unconvincing, rebuttals. 1) [...]

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§463 · December 15, 2004 · 1 comment ·


My somewhat bigoted mother got an email forward from an extended family member. This particular forward (which she called “great”) purports to have been penned by Andy Rooney. Things like I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big campfires. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, [...]

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§465 · December 14, 2004 · 6 comments ·