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Irony detection software
01.22.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Irony detection softwareHaving trouble telling irony from sarcasm from just-full-of-shit? Wouldn’t know a parody from a pastiche if your life depended on it? Help is on the way. Irony detection software package #1. Irony detection software package #2.
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Unitarians adding God to P&P?
01.21.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsApparently Unitarian Universalist president Bill Sinkford is proposing that we add God™ to our Purposes & Principles. [By the way, the redesign looks nice, but you’ve completely buried the P&P. Not what I’d call “user friendly.” And, no, burying it in a section marked “newcomers” doesn’t make it any better.] Sinkford says that God’s™ absense […]
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Fundamentalism is. . .
Do you know it when you see it? There’s been a helluva lot of serious work done on fundamentalism over the past decade, and I’m not talking about anti-cultists. The best definition I’ve found so far come from religoius scholar and former nun Karen Armstrong. To be fundamentalism, it should meet all seven criteria; otherwise, […]
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Snap, crackle and pop
01.20.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Snap, crackle and popWent to the chiropractor today for my first “alignment.” I don’t think my neck knows what to do with itself now. The x-ray he took of my neck looked hell: instead of a nice curvy curve, my neck was straight as a board. Not good. At least if I’m going to be stiff-necked, I’ll be […]
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Some signs I’d like to see at the protests tomorrow
01.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Some signs I’d like to see at the protests tomorrowUncle Sam gets into the game. Dubya turns to the Dark Side. Homeland Security. Your rights as an American. Many more at Liberal Arts Mafia. If folks would start using protest signs like these, it would go a long way toward ending the (deserved) stereotype that liberals have no sense of humor. It might help […]
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Cleaning up shit for Istook
It just so happens that in high school I worked a fast food pizza job with two sons of Okie congressman Ernest Istook. Chad & Butch, his two youngest, I believe. Butch trained me, and I in turn trained Chad. Ernest, in turn, proposes the Religious Freedom Amendment every session of Congress even though it […]
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