Donk me
Work saps my energy to blog. This is unfortunate. I watched Helvetica the other week which was funny because I work at a very Helvetica-esque company. Trust me… it’s hard to keep my credentials as an anarchist when I’m working as a corporate drone. Plus, not being a bum means I have to pay taxes. [...]
Where’s your lapel pin?
Jul 6, 2008 politics
Nearly 85,000 days have passed since John Hancock signed our Declaration of Independence. Yesterday we celebrated with triumphant patriotism and copious amounts of gunpowder, imported from our chief creditor. One of the ironies of this is that our nation was borne out of the Enlightenment, a true product of its age. Fingerprints of the zeitgeist [...]
Tags: Enlightenment, nationalism, patriotism
Don’t Blink Now
Jul 4, 2008 personal
Don’t blink or you might miss this: I’m actually kind of happy right now. I got the job with Exel (pays $11.75/hr) and I start training Monday @ 10am. My replacement motherboard arrived and my computer is back up with almost full functionality — I lost 1/4 of my memory sticks, and my onboard ethernet [...]
Truth is Outrageous and Offensive
Jul 1, 2008 politics
For all of 2007, the big three network newscasts devoted 1,157 minutes for the war in Iraq. Halfway through 2008, they’ve offered up a meager 181 minutes. Instead, the mainstream media inflates generic non-issues into The Most Pressing News Story of the Week. The latest hullabaloo is over one sentence by Gen. Wesley Clark, during [...]
Tags: Kevin DeWine, McCain, Mike DeWine, Obama, Wesley Clark