Archive for April, 2008

Can we make ‘elite’ not a dirty word again?

Ah jeez…
Rep. John Duncan, a Tennessee Republican, said that it seems “rather elitist” that people with academic degrees in health think they know better than parents what type of sex education is appropriate. “I don’t think it’s something we should abandon,” he said of abstinence-only funding.

Yes, elitism is people who have studied things extensively using [...]


I’m not going to vote anymore.

Jesus. I’m done.


Airports and a hatred there of.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, ‘as pretty as an airport.’ Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.
-Douglas Adams

As I write this, I have [...]