Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: November 2006
O.J. Cries
Posted on November 15, 2006 in Celebrity Hypocrites
So why the f*ck did you write the book if you cared about your kids?
He Flipped Coins for Grades
Posted on November 15, 2006 in Mania
Bipolar’s face in education and how one university doesn’t quite get the nature of the problem:
Torok is portrayed by the university as an arrogant and crass professor who disrespected and intimidated his peers, used profane language in class, flipped coins for grades, assigned grading to students, made flagrant sexual remarks, and even once asked female students if anyone in class had a tampon. One student claimed that Torok had talked about sex on the Internet between priests and nuns.
Borat and Real Kazakhs
Posted on November 14, 2006 in Ettiquette Film Hatred
Sascha Cohen’s depiction of a Kazakh telejournalist afoot in the United States amounts to little more than black face.
Borat and Real Americans
Posted on November 14, 2006 in Ettiquette Film Hatred
These were not actors but real people who agreed to go on camera and give the people of Kazakhstan a glimpse of real Americans.
Memo To Oliver North
Posted on November 12, 2006 in Occupation of Iraq
I want you to get something clear: if the war in Iraq was lost over here, it was lost by you. You and the pathetic scoundrels who seized the Executive Branch in 2000 and propelled us into yet another Vietnam. It was not the anti-war protestors or the liberals in Congress who lost it. We should have learned the lesson after Vietnam, but thanks to you, your cowboy constituency, and vainglory, we didn’t. We got ourselves mired in yet another civil conflict thanks to you.
So when the Congressional hearings come around on this, stay home. Don’t put on your uniform and bleed red white and blue all over the airwaves. It won’t work this time, Ollie.
DBSA News Feed
Posted on November 12, 2006 in DBSA Support Groups and Conferences Pointers
DBSA now features an RSS feed:
http://www.dbsapages.org/newswatch.xml
Friday Anteater Blogging – Rock and Roll!
Posted on November 10, 2006 in Xenartha
Here’s a South African rock group called “Anteater”.
Is the Movie Next?
Posted on November 10, 2006 in Media
Das Kapital has been adapted for the stage:
Eight people – selected from among the few who have read the book from cover to cover – tell their own stories, creating a theatrical collage where Marx forms the common thread.
The play, Kapital: Volume One, is the brainchild of Rimini Protokoll, a collective of young German directors who have made a name for themselves in “documentary theatre”.
In Kapital, the participants make up a diverse bunch. There is a staunch Marxist who rails against Coca-Cola and the evils of consumer society, a socialist singer from the former communist east Germany, and a blind call-centre worker who dreams of going on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Couldn’t be any more silly than Dancing with the Stars or Survivor, can it?
Allen Concedes
Posted on November 9, 2006 in Campaign 2006
We also have the Senate. What a great week for America!
How it Came Out
Posted on November 8, 2006 in California Watch Campaign 2006
| Prop # | Title | How I Voted | How It Came Out |
| Prop 1A | Transportation Funding Protection | No | Yes |
| Prop 1B-1E | Various Bonds | Yes | Yes |
| Prop 83 | Sex Offender Monitoring | No | Yes* |
| Prop 84 | Water Quality, Park Improvement | Yes | Yes |
| Prop 85 | Parental Notification on Abortion | No | No |
| Prop 86 | Tax on Cigarettes | No | No |
| Prop 87 | Alternative Energy Tax | Yes | No |
| Prop 88 | Education Funding, Real Property Tax | No | No |
| Prop 89 | Public Financing of Political Campaigns | No | No |
| Prop 90 | Private Property | No | No |
*I was in a decided minority on this one.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Posted on November 8, 2006 in Campaign 2006
Doesn’t that have a great ring to it? I am proud to be part of this history.
Election bonus: Rumsfeld resigns.
