(hello? Hello?? HELLO??? Why hello there! Where have you been? Pouring my soul into my work. Oh, I see. Well, welcome back! Grazie!)
Oh, happy day!
It’s taken only 36 hours to hit me. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic party presidential nomination.
I watched his Minnesota rally speech live two nights ago, and as stirring as [...]
Posts under ‘Reading’
Dreams from Barack Obama
In search of understanding
I think curiousity could play a great role in helping us to understand why others behave as they do, but also to examine our own rituals and purposes.
- Adrienne Clarkson, Canadian journalist and former Governor-General of Canada, “The Society of Difference,” 2007 Lecture of the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium
After almost four months of travel in India, I [...]
Some of 197: A passive study in spam
Irving
prepare yourself for this
Louis
The head of your ppenis is so sensitive
demise
chassis doldrums
Marian
Gift Someone
roadhous archive
boniface
priest: small one said desperately the time Ponyets was already been
been saved lately
tells you to do so If your medical doctor or dentist has ordered statuette
Just take this and become a real man!
canteen heliotrope Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:41:03 +0600
gravitational forces. [...]
A look in the mirror for the “guardian” of human rights
From the LETTERS section of the 21 March 2006 Harper’s Weekly:
TO: Harper’s Weekly
FROM: M Henri Day, PhD, MD
Readers intrigued by the US State Department´s report on the human rights situation obtaining [sic] around the world (but not in the US) may also find the Chinese response of some interest — here´s a link [...]
These Made Me Laugh
Two links made me laugh quite a bit this morning. Enjoy.
The first is a rundown of IL Senator Barack Obama’s side-splitting speech at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington this weekend. The link provides the context as well as the speech.
The second comes from an Alaskan-American who lives with his Chinese wife and their child [...]
Around the Net
Some things I saw online today…
- It’s hard for me to figure out how a special committee looking at Negro League era baseball players could put 17 people into the Hall of Fame and not include Minnie Minoso. He simply deserves to be there. Thank you Phil Rogers for pointing that out.
- Various issues about [...]
Two Food Source Models
My partner in crime (err, food shopping) found this article today on AlterNet (she also mentioned it in the comments of my previous post). It provides some evidence that Whole Foods really is Whole Paycheck Market, as well as the contradiction between how Whole Foods markets itself (as a natural food retailer that is good [...]
Meat! (etc.)
I was cruising past a food blog I enjoy and noticed they had posted the winners of the 2005 Food Blog Awards. I don’t really know how wide a circle food blogging is, or how wide the award-givers cast their nominee net, but at the very least I figured the winners may have some fun-to-read [...]
