Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: August 2004
Urination on Hot Days
Posted on August 8, 2004 in Health Hiking
It’s a hot day, you’ve been hiking, and suddenly you feel the desire to urinate.
A Year 2000 Prophecy
Posted on August 8, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Humor? Mailbox
Prophecy can be devastating and bite the recipient in unexpected ways.
Insert a Trite Metaphor About a Corral
Posted on August 7, 2004 in Roundup
This roundup covers the period from 30 July to 5 August 2004.
America’s Chernobyl
Posted on August 6, 2004 in War
Until our citizenry holds the military accountable for its experimentation and demands the full truth about our nuclear testing program as well as chemical and biological warfare, this nation will only be an illusion of liberty.
A Test for Evil: Homosexuality
Posted on August 6, 2004 in Morals & Ethics Sexuality
I’d like to suggest a test for evil and use homosexuality as the subject. The test is simple: an act can be called evil if it causes harm.
Intelligence, Sanity, Good, and Evil
Posted on August 5, 2004 in Accountability Morals & Ethics War
An unchecked faith in our intelligence — just like an unchecked faith in anything — may be our own worst enemy. It is in the name of intelligence, I feel, that we make some of our greatest blunders.
Moveable Type Problem
Posted on August 5, 2004 in Site News
For no explicable reason, the code running my comments, category counts, and titles of recent articles has suddenly stopped working.
Hiroshima Day 2004
Posted on August 5, 2004 in Accountability War
Today, on Hiroshima Day, the nation faces a choice between an “insane” George W. Bush and a “sane” John Kerry.
Botistry
Posted on August 5, 2004 in Bots
The questions people come up with for the bot help reveal both the bot’s limitations and their personal prejudices or inclinations.
Pot-Bellied Buddhism
Posted on August 4, 2004 in Morals & Ethics Myths & Mysticism
The pot-bellied Buddha serves as the Bible does for Fundamentalists when they justify war, violence, and consumerism: to mystify and hide the nonspiritual, sense-bound nature of the hedonist lifestyle.
Emperor Norton Would Be Proud
Posted on August 4, 2004 in Quizzes
Hedonist conformity denies my personhood.
Democats
Posted on August 3, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Cats
It gives me a good feeling to see them clearing the condo of that rat. Let’s send them to the White House!
