A Few Quick Thoughts Before I Go Home and Think About Shoes...

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. ~Lord Byron

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

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Name: Sian
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Friday, 07 October 2005

A Few Quick Thoughts Before I Go Home and Think About Shoes...

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There's something about the Terrorist Attack Counter I put up a few days ago that really makes me think about what's going on in the world. I think that something is the fact that it changes every time I look at my blog, and that every single one of those numbers represents a DEADLY terrorist attack. Someone died, they're dead. That's what we're fighting over. It's been about a week, maybe a week and a half, and I've seen the thing go up twenty attacks worth or so. I think I'll start blogs with the number from time to time.

I put up a poll, asking about my headline. Please vote, before you read on.

The word incense means to make very angry. It comes from the Latin to burn. The word insense--spelled intentionally, thank you-- means to educate or instruct. From... **gasp** Old English-- prefix IN + the word sense as in common. Or, these days, not-so-common. This is a pun. Not, I'll admit, the highest form of humor.

Next... out of some especially masochistic impulse, I signed up for the National Novel Writing Month competition. The goal is to write 50,000 words in a month (about 175 pages, according to them. I'll probably use very small words.) I think all of you should sign up to suffer with me. If I do post any of it, it's likely to be on a private blog, because I don't want to spend that much time and effort doing something that would be totally unmarketable, but you're all invited, if you want.

Most of my regular readers can skip this, but there's a very obvious difference between a young man going to college (during the Vietnam era) to get a degree to help him in a (successful) political career, and a young man going to college to jerk off and ultimately wind up teaching unhappily for the rest of his life. Even if you don't agree with his politics, you have to agree that there's a significant difference in motivation and outcome between George Bush and Professor Nostrils. If you have a bitter, conservative professor who would clearly rather sit home and peel the skin off his arms than come to class, by all means, name him. I'm always looking for new academics to load into my catapult.

And as always, if you can't tell when I'm joking, I'm sure as hell not going to tell you. Thank Gd that a Democracy deteriorates into a benevolent oligarchy.

My state doesn't have a place on its voter registration form to check Republican or Democrat. Therefore, I am neither. In the past, I have lived in states where I've checked boxes. I usually check them in the pattern of a bunny rabbit.

If you happen to be one of the people who knows which boxes, be good, or I'll send your wife a nut-cracker and no nuts.