Our president sounds like he's whining all the time. Is this a anti-Texan bias, or is he in fact whining all the time?
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Mr. President, is this nepotism?
No, I simply picked one of my friends.
Also, he doesn't have a litmus test either. Apparently it's impossible to determine a friend's political beliefs without the aid of chemistry.
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10:40:39 AM,
Tuesday 4 October 2005
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Went to Halibut Point on Sunday. Took lots of pictures of the ocean. Might edit them one day. Waves were maybe 4' high, smashing against blocks of granite. Saw a seal, briefly, swimming, and any number of cormorants. Took at least 4 pictures showing either a cormorants tail vanishing below the water, or the following splash. None of the diving motion itself, which is what I was after. Halibut Point is a colonial granite quarry, only $2, and a wonderful rocky shore. The only trouble is the roads in Gloucester manage to make me motion sick even when I'm driving, an unique accomplishment.
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09:57:11 PM,
Monday 3 October 2005
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"We do not believe there should be a litmus test." They're absolutely right. It's absurd to suggest testing the pH of political appointees. They aren't aquariums. It's probably discriminatory against people who brush with baking soda.
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02:25:43 PM,
Monday 3 October 2005
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Tried to cycle up to the Park Circle yesterday. Wimped out. However, looking at the topo map, I nearly made it to the top while trying to go around. Went up Turkey Hill instead, and discovered a golf course that I was completely unaware of.
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10:26:48 AM,
Monday 3 October 2005
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One of the names floated for the Supreme Court in Slate... Alice M. Batchelder, from Ohio. It looks like there's some resemblence there... anyone know if our Ms. Batchelder of Ohio is related?
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12:26:25 AM,
Saturday 1 October 2005
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Hake is not yummy. Cheap, and on the good alternative list, but mushy and generally not yummy. The sauce was a couple days old too, which didn't help. What next? Tilapia? I live next to the ocean! I shouldn't have to eat goldfish! Give up and start buying frozen? Croaker? Black Sea Bass? You have to cook those whole...
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10:45:02 PM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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Awwww. I have a plastic box just like that.
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04:34:27 PM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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My Work Ivy has it's leaves pressed mournfully against the rain-coated window. It would be a good picture. I wish I weren't too self-conscious to drag my camera around with me like a safety blanket.
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03:12:33 PM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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I saw Iraq as the flip-side of Afghanistan. There, war seemed better than anarchy. In Iraq, war seemed better than tyranny and oppression. The trouble was, that it seemed those who said that the only way to hold Iraq together was tyranny were right. That leaves us with the choice of tyrannizing Iraq and letting it split apart. I am terrified that we are choosing the former.
Of course, letting it split apart isn't good either. When countries split apart, there is always the trouble of those on the wrong side of the fracture line. The traditional solution is ethnic cleansing. Iraq may be a country that can neither be governed nor divided. Better to let it divide than hold it together the way it has been held together.
Perhaps it isn't our business? But then I'm reading a book about Rwanda, which makes that argument hard to take. It seems we should be able to do something, but it isn't clear what it is.
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02:39:10 PM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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Triage Nurse: Are you hearing voices?
Patient: *worried* ...yes
Triage Nurse: *serious* What are they saying?
Patient: Dr. Whosit, please report to room 111. (continues playing back PA system verbatim until interrupted)
Hallucinations aren't just hearing or seeing things that other people don't, confusing imagination with reality. It's assigning completely incorrect meaning to sensations. I'm not sure if she realized at some level what the PA system was, but she knew that it was talking to her, and what it was saying was fraught with meaning. It was similar with the Red Sox announcers, and the conversations across the waiting room. Having a two way conversation with a TV isn't much better than having one with a plant. The culture treats hallucinations as a bright line, a threshold between the mentally infirm and the crazy; It isn't. I think they take on that importance because the idea of hallucinations is easier conceptually; it shifts the problem outside the soul, back to the input stream.
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02:06:18 PM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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My building is creaking in the wind. One does not expect buildings to creak. Earlier there were 3 6' long pieces of insulation flying around outside; the wind would scoop them up and then drop them. Eventually some good souls ruined the entertainment by taking them inside.
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11:49:38 AM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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This morning there was a woodpecker with an admirably progressive outlook working away on the tomato stakes in the Garden of the Landlord.
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11:21:51 AM,
Thursday 29 September 2005
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