Archive for April, 2005

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

New Pope

So let me see if I have this straight, (Note: all information taken from www.dailykos.com). They have a new Pope who due to an unfortunate circumstance of time and place had to serve in the WWII German army, a Pope who attacked “liberation theology” theologians, denounced homosexuality and gay marriage and pressured Asian priests who [...]

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Thursday, April 14th, 2005

What’s Wrong with Religion

from the onion
Heaven Less Opulent
Than Vatican, Reports
Disappointed Pope
I also loved the overwhelming verbal platitudes offered to the former Pope. Was he good man….Yeah….did he do some good things……Yeah……did he reign over a period in Catholicism where membership precipitously drop as more and more people throughout the world felt that the current Catholic message no longer [...]

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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

A Portrait of a Violation

I would like to take this publicly viewable space to castigate a professor, known only as A. Through considerable ability, she was able to both waste an entire 120 minutes and rush the class such that we were unable to complete the one task that she badly mumbled to us. I would also like to [...]

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Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Tasteless but Funny…if you know anything about divine papal rights

Pope’s Renal System Proves Fallible
www.theonion.com

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Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Reflections on the President

There is a reason there is no give and take in American political discourse. The extremity of the president doesn’t allow for such. For a growing number of the opposition, the president is the closest thing to ‘pure evil’ they have encountered in the extremely antiseptic reality of post-modern, safe American existence. Growing numbers of [...]

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Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Best heterosexual moment EVER!

I am hammered and stagger up to an Aussie barman and state, “I need to hear a George Michael song right now”! He puts it on. I dance, my sexuality, once again, is assuredly questioned.

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Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Non-Native Speakers

There are just some conversations that you can’t have with anyone other than a non-native English speaker. For example, yesterday I was talking to my Japanese friend and she asked me about slang words for drugs. But before I launched into a litany or readily available terms that flowed right off the top of [...]

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