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You wanna talk environmental time bomb? Check out the stats on Mexico City and air pollution!!!! Anacephalic babies are common now because of the maquiladora industry...but none of this matters because Jesus is comin' soon, right? My evangelical neighbors DENY global warming and categorize CO2 emissions as "junk science"; for them, fuel efficiency standards are, "government imposed birth control". Go figure!!!

Well, Strider...the pleasure is all mine!

Peer pressure censorship!

You are right. Hatred is for suckers. It is just so hard not to get emotional. Norman Mailer was a boxer...He used to take the F train from Brooklyn to lower Manhattan every day just to box!!!

Angie, they made us take a two week course as part of our inservice training on Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (how to restrain violent students without inflicting pain, to secure their safety as well as the safety of other). We were also certified in Love and Logic. Love and Logic works with about 85% of my kiddoes but that emotionally disturbed 15% wears my rear out!!! I am more of a hippie librarian and get away with my hippie look because the principal I work under lets us violate the dress code as long as the scores are high. I hope things work out for you and remember to document, document, document...but you are a veteran, you know how it goes! Keep us posted on your next round!

I voted for Hillary in TX...it was an emotional, irrational, feminist response. I regret my choice. Oh, and you forgot the most famous Hoosier of 'em all: Michael Jackson!

Bumped...they don't need the Eighth Immortal...Bush has Christian Embassy...I know, I know, I am being extremely naive and it is all about oil and the conversion of Muslims to the Christian faith was never part of BushCos agenda. It only served to get support from the public.

They don't see Iraqis as human because they are not Christian...Christian Embassy, sponsored by the DOD and the State Department wants to change this by "evangelizing" in Iraq. This move worked well during the Cold War in Latin America; Protestant missionaries were sponsored by the U.S. Gov't under the guise of the "Instituto Linguistico de Verano" to convert the heathens to Protestantism and combat Marxism. I'm not sure conversion will work in Iraq. My dad claims I am very naive...He says the war is ONLY about oil and to quit blaming Christian Armageddon for everything.
BTW: DateMyCheese??

Christian Embassy: "The Christian Embassy was started in 1974 by Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, and then-congressman for Arizona John Conlan, in order to serve as a spiritual resource to leaders working in Congress, the Executive Branch, and the diplomatic community.

The Christian Embassy runs a number of offices in cities around the world, including Washington D.C. and New York City. It is a Christian ministry, a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit company, and its United Nations office is a recognized Non-Governmental Organization."

A classic text for satire is Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. Yes, it is outdated but still offers some interesting insights into the history of satire. Frye (like Peterson???) believes that satire means to correct or improve an existing social ill;satire is concerned with the integration of society. I don't agree. Satire does not have to offer anything but laughter. Precisely: nothing is sacred, nothing matters and this is the very heart of absurdist satire. Peterson's "low-comedy" is still delicious and uptight critics just don't "get" Sacha Barron Cohen's genius in
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". I will have to read Peterson's book but from your post, I think Mr. Peterson and I will disagree.

Jondude, I tried to sell DateMyPet...so far, no takers...not even in Oklahoma!!!

I agree. However, with me, the meds plus yoga made a BIG difference on my OCD-anxiety-depression hell. It was like having a rotting molar removed for good.

Wal-Mart and its rapacious brethren will begin to fade because people in the more rural parts of America will refuse to pay the 10 or 15 bucks in fuel costs for a round-trip drive to the nearest big box mega-outlet just to get some crackers and shampoo and some nails.And the world will improve. A little. However, I do not underestimate the power of Wal-Mart to viciously alter the time/space continuum for their own benefit, and to figure out a way around the transport issue, perhaps by cutting the pay of their sweatshop workforce from eight cents a month to four and by strapping enormous pallets of crappy ink-jet printers and porcelain Jesus figurines to the backs of trained dolphins and send them over from Shanghai. They are just that kind of malevolent.

Solitaire: I confess to mixing anti-depressants with the best chocolate on the planet: Perugina Bacci. Keeps me going during parent-teacher conference nights.

Hayduke, there is nothing to be ashamed about. I suffered for years with OCD...it runs in my family which makes for hilarious family reunions. My grandfather lived to be 99 and he was FOREVER controlling his environment, had a million rituals he had to go through every day and to tease him I would rearrange the silverware on the dinner table. Drove him nuts. He was also a chronic germophobe. I started taking meds for OCD a year ago. The meds have made a night and day difference in my life. I am more in tune with my students, I've learned to let go, my quality of life is so much better. It is needless to suffer with this condition; it's like walking around with a rotting molar. I basically function because of the meds.

Riefenstahl lost on so many levels...Her rival Dietrich has a street named after her in Berlin.