Year: 2002
Rupture and Reflection
Posted on October 26, 2002 in Travels - So Cal Weather
Poor Blaz. He left just before things got good here.
Roaches (Insects)
Posted on October 25, 2002 in College North Carolina
Barbara Fletcher wrote about facing her first live roach. The occasion caused me to rhapsodize upon one of my own favorite roach horror stories.
Why Pacifists Don’t Support War?
Posted on October 25, 2002 in Peace Roach-B-Gone
“Duh!” is the most succinct and apt response.
Paul Wellstone Dead
Posted on October 25, 2002 in Courage & Activism Liberals & Progressives
Just two weeks ago, Wellstone put his political future on the line by saying “No” to George W. Bush’s war.
Blaz on the USA
Posted on October 25, 2002 in Encounters
American readers should note the comparisons he makes between the United States today and the communism he used to live under.
Guest Map
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Site News Whimsies
I’d seen this around on a few blogs, so I decided to add it to my own for kicks and giggles. Click on the icon that says “View My Guestmap”, wait for the window to open, and push in a pin where you live.
Use the zoom function to get a closer fix on where you want your pin.
Srebenica, the Sniper, and the Right Thing
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Peace
Now that the sniper has turned out to be a black muslim, what’s next? Insistance that we should never have freed the slaves?
Rule 17
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Irony & Sarcasm
Whoever posted the topic in Dalnet #politics the other day needed to apply Rule 17 from Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style, which is “Omit needless words.“
John Allen Muhammad et. al.
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Scoundrels
Americans have more to fear from our well-armed homegrown sociopaths with a cause than from Saddam Hussein.
Aortal – Cunningly Prosed
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Aortal
Cunningly Prosed offers brave vistas into the mind of an intelligent and compassionate woman trying to live in the 21th century.
Uncool Me
Posted on October 24, 2002 in Addictions IRC/Chat
It embarasses me that I turned into a burden because I hadn’t been observant of my need for tagamet following the habenero-spiced lunch treat, but aside from that, a lot of good things happened and we parted friends.
