I figured something out ( Read more... )

Something that started running through my head at the gym:

CHORUS:
Chertoff, Bush, and Brown
Drowned New Orleans town.
You may think it was Katrina,
But these three were much, much meaner:
Chertoff, Bush, and Brown.

Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake;"
Michael Brown said "For heaven's sake,
They all were told to evacuate!
If I heard that I wouldn't ( Read more... )

I'd just like to present the following Plain Facts:1. Toilet paper must hang OVER the roll.

2. Toilet paper that hangs under the roll gets stuck to the wall in a soggy mess if you take a shower in the bathroom.

3. Toilet paper must hang over the roll.
4. Households where a kitten roams loose may temporarily hang their paper the WRONG WAY to avoid ( Read more... )

Someday I'm going to write books.  Many books.  I've got all these stories bouncing around in my head, along with other ideas that aren't attached to any story yet.  Someday I'll write them  (yeah, someday).  Meanwhile I thought I'd give an excerpt or two.  Btw: usually I don't care much, but this is Copyright © 2005 by Christopher Hatton.
So after ( Read more... )

A coworker of mine claimed to be a liberal yesterday.

"No, you aren't," I told him. Usually I don't deny people's stated political identity that forcefully, but this guy voted for Bush in 2004 ( Read more... )

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This is April 19, 2005. So far nothing terrible has happened today. But it's not even noon where I am ( Read more... )

It's 4/11. That's Information Day, obviously.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Garrote of Reasoned Discussion.

Get yours.

Semantics is the study of meaning, or the meaning itself. (Trust me, it is.) So when we talk about the semantics of the sentence "Snow is white," for example, we're talking about the meaning of the sentence, which is to identify a particular substance as having a particular color (or lack of color).

Text semantics is, as the name implies, the ( Read more... )