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Thursday, October 04, 2001
"Coroner: Object In Fruit Drink Not Penis"
Thank God.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/4/2001
Sorry, folks, I've been happily busy around here. Mostly I've been teaching for Kaplan and hanging out with Tim.
I do have problems with these kids. You'd think they'd be interested in raising their SAT scores, at least sort of? But I have the most problems getting them to SHUT THE FUCK UP. Last night I said, "You can stop talking or you can leave." One of the kids muttered, "we'repayingforthisclasswecandowhatwewant." I said, "Yes, you did pay for this class." The kid looked up, suprised I had heard him, despite the fact he was two meters away. I think they're used to television that can't hear what they say. Anyway, I said, "Yes you paid for this class, but that doesn't mean I can't ask you to leave. People can be removed from movies and broadway plays and airplanes for unruly behavior." So that shut them up for a little while. Then the boys started up with the laughing again. I'm not sure what they were laughing about, but I can guess. So I said, "You guys can laugh all you want now -- you won't be laughing when your scores come." This almost palpable silence fell on the room. Ah-ha, I have found the thing to say to them! They were quiet for fifteen minutes or so.
Of course, class was pretty easy to take last night since I knew someone was at my house making me dinner. Tee hee.
I could tell you some NYC-WTC stories, but I'll start crying again, and I don't want to do that.
.: posted by Loretta 10/4/2001
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.: posted by andy 10/4/2001
Wednesday, October 03, 2001
Some iron workers in NYC working to clear the rubble took two I-beams and made a cross of them. The commentator on MSNBC said "the iron workers have created an Iron-Cross." That seems spooky in some ways, even though I can't really draw any parallels to the german military. It still sounded spooky. I remember an underground internet movement against geocities having something to do with Iron Crosses. It was a very small movement... Almost the size of one whole dorm room.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/3/2001
Jeremy might want to create a kinder, gentler willworkforflooz, but I'm all about putting the hammer down on terrorists. I just read a really interesting article on Jane's about a man named Mughniyeh, who might actually be behind the WTC and Pentagon attacks.
.: posted by andy 10/3/2001
I get the feeling that andy and I scare away potential contributors whenever we get all Hawkish... and for that, I shall turn my attention back to my dog.
Dacshunds have a strong instinctual desire to hunt and kill small subterranian mammals. A good way to trigger this killer in a hot-dog shaped package is to put your hand underneath a blanket and move it around as if it were some sort of furry-underground-creature. He will then start bouncing around the hand, biting and snapping as hard as he can(which doesn't seem very hard through a thick blanket). The interesting thing is that you get to see the precise limit to his intellegence. If you remove the blanket to reveal your hand, he will(or should) immediately transform from a carnivorous frenzy, to a tilt-headed confused state of peace. You can then repeat the process over and over without the dog ever realizing that the hand and the moving lump beneath the blanket are the same. He will always try to kill the lump, and lick the hand.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/3/2001
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
Don't get me wrong, I really hate Bill Maher and his POS tv show, but he's not wrong when he calls past US action against bin Laden cowardly. When bin Laden's followers bombed the US Embassy in Kenya, something like 200 Kenyans were killed and 4000 wounded, not to mention 10-20 Americans.
- Attacking a United States Embassy is an attack on US soil, literally. Embassy grounds are considered part of that nation's territory. So bombing the US Embassy in Kenya was an act of war.
- Clinton's decision to fire some missiles at some possible terrorist training camps in Afghanistan had absolutely no effect. None. Maybe we killed some goats and blew up some material. We sure didn't hit anyone important from al Qaeda.
If we had recognized that act of war for what it was, maybe we would have done something decisive, instead of sitting on our haunches, watching first the USS Cole get blown up, and then the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the same day. You could actually make a graph of the terrorists' bravery increasing, realizing that no one was going to stop them. And the reason we weren't going to do anything was that President Clinton was too afraid of public opinion to protect the citizens of the United States. Better to fire some missiles and hope the terrorists will just go away than make any decisive moves. Well, now we've spent 8 years learning the hard way that you can't bomb people into submission. You'd think we would have learned that 60 years ago during the Battle of Britain.
.: posted by andy 10/2/2001
Monday, October 01, 2001
Ok, I know I have no original thoughts of my own, but I like to think that I can recognize a good one when I see it. This morning on the way to work I decided that Osama Bin Ladin and Afghanistan aren't my problem. Islamic fundamentalism is my problem. To me, Islamic fundamentalism is just another example of a religion abused by the incumbent power to oppress the people, and justify murder. So I was thinking that the very first reaction I had to this whole thing is still the best idea... we already have an army in Saudi Arabia, we should just take the long way to Afghanistan, through Iraq and Iran, replacing their governments with secular representative-democracies along the way. If the Mullas and Ayatollas and Dictators want to call us Crusaders, let's prove them right. --steps off soap box-- Quit laughing. dammit, i'm serious. Here, this guy(I still read Ayn Rand books 5 years after high school) says 99% of what I was thinking this morning, except in a much more concise and non-stupid way.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/1/2001
An interesting interview with a former russian psy-ops officer.
.: posted by Jeremy 10/1/2001
Sunday, September 30, 2001
Jeremy, I guess you've never seen that movie where the guy's monkey-butler goes crazy and kills all those people. It's a scary dystopian movie, except for the parts with the cute little monkey.
.: posted by andy 9/30/2001
I'd hate to be a quadrapalegic, like Christopher Reeves, but at least then I could have a monkey-butler.
.: posted by Jeremy 9/30/2001
The Colombians have their own version of Forrest Gump, only this one apparently dangerous. Very strange. Kind of also reminds me of Woody Allen's movie, Zelig. Also, the area code in Tijuana is 666, which is funny because Tijuana is the happiest place on earth.
.: posted by andy 9/30/2001
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