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Greetings, Quotaholics:
I
suppose there hasn’t been anything throughout history that has caused
as much divisiveness as religion.
These days people are offended by the omission of religion or religious
symbolism in about the same numbers as those who are offended by the display
of the same. But let’s face it, there are places where you are very
likely to encounter religious symbolism.
I remember when my dad was in the hospital. The name of the hospital is
St. Joseph, and guess what? There are a lot of items, crosses, pictures,
stained glass, etc., in the hospital that remind you of the fact that
it is a Catholic hospital.
I think maybe if you elect to go to this hospital, either for care or
to visit, you should prepare yourself for some exposure to religious ideas.
Likewise, if you go to a school that is run by a religious organization
I would assume that you might be prepared to be exposed to religion. A
good number of such schools would probably expect you to take formal religion
classes, but I guess not all.
One such school is Boston College. An recent article in the Boston
Herald said, “Some Boston College professors and students are
raising a holy ruckus over the Catholic school’s return to its religious
roots by hanging crucifixes in all its classrooms, calling the move ‘offensive’
and a break from the Jesuit tradition of tolerance.”
“‘There is no choice if you don’t think it’s appropriate.
You can’t turn it around,’ said biology professor Dan Kirschner,
faculty adviser for BC’s chapter of Hillel, a Jewish student group.
‘I think it is being insensitive to the people of other faith traditions
here.’”
“The display of crucifixes - some of them hand-carved works brought
back by students from volunteer missions overseas - is an outgrowth of
the college’s Committee on Christian Art, formed in 2002 to promote
Christian artworks on campus.”
A spokesman for Boston College said,“‘As a Catholic university,
we view the crucifix as a sacred symbol and its placement reflects our
commitment to our religious heritage. We hope that those who do not share
our faith tradition can respect our intentions.’”
The article goes on to say that there were many religious icons around
campus already. It appears that the trouble is centered on the fact that
the college administrators didn’t consult with the staff before
putting the crucifixes up and they were places in, of all places, science
labs!!
It sounds to me like sours grapes on the part of the professors who weren’t
consulted ahead of time, and people who are looking very hard to find
something to be offended by.
As usual, I don’t want to get a big religious argument going here,
so please don’t go there. But what do you think? Shouldn’t
a Catholic college have the right, if not the duty, to display religious
items? If a student elects to go to a Catholic school, do they have any
right to complain about such displays? Shouldn’t the staff at religiously
affiliated schools be expected to tolerate such displays as part of the
working environment? If students or staff are offended, shouldn’t
they find a school that suits their beliefs instead of expecting the school
to change?
Disbelievingly,
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“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean
you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” - Edward
R. Murrow, American journalist (1908-1965)
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
- Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (1908-1965)
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Red-Eye Flight
[Thanks to Bonnie
in Louisiana]
Two voices, male
and female, on an overnight "red eye" plane flight: "I
think everyone’s asleep, let’s go"
Sound of steps.
"This one’s
empty. No one is looking. You go in first"
"It’s a bit
cramped, let me sit down"
"Have you got
the condom? Quick, put it on"
Sniff sniff "Ah
perfume! You think of everything."
"This is great…"
(long sigh)
Static on the loud
speaker then a new voice. "This is the captain speaking, to those
two people in the rear toilet. We know what you’re doing, and it is
expressly forbidden by the Government that YOU elected. Now, put those
cigarettes out and take the condom off the smoke detector!"
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“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction
of knowin that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most
out of what you had to give.” - Howard Cosell, American sport journalist
(1918-1995)
“A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.”
- Marcel Marceau, French mime artist
“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price
of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”
- Erich Fromm, German born American social philosopher and psychoanalyst
(1900-1980)
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E-Mail
the Imp
It has been said that humans are creatures of habit. We tend to do the
same, or similar, things over and over without even thinking about it.
Think about breakfast. The average person has about thee different breakfast
menus programmed into their brain and they always chose one of them.
We may think we’re very cosmopolitan and make variations thinking we
don’t have a rut we’ve slid into when it comes to eating our first meal
of the day, or maybe the last one of the day if you’ve been out drinking
all night.
One menu is cereal. We substitute hot for cold, flakes for clumps, wheat
for corn, and vary the type of dried or fresh fruit we throw in. But
it’s still cereal.
Another menu is eggs. We have them over easy, sunny side up, scrambled,
in an omelet, soft or hard boiled, and with or with out cheese, onion,
peppers, and ham. We vary the sides with hash browns, cottage fries,
and grits. We nibble on ham, bacon, sausage, steak, pork chop, hamburger
patty. We’ll have toast (a dozen different kinds of bread), biscuits,
rolls or muffins to go along with a plateful of artery clogging delights.
Or you could go deli style, hold the taters and grits and throw everything
else on the toast, rolls, or muffins and have a breakfast sandwich.
Raw eggs blended into a breakfast drink is still an egg breakfast. Last
but not least is the Southern standard sausage gravy on or with anything,
and the venerable military delicacy, Shit on a Shingle. Bottom line,
it’s just variations on eggs for breakfast.
We can’t forget the baked goods/sweet menu. Danish and donuts are popular,
and I include French toast and pancakes in this category. Fruit and
sweet corn fritters fit into this group as well.
You notice I didn’t include the speed bump breakfast menu (breakfast
burritos, wraps, and pocket bread take-outs) since the items are basically
modern extensions of the egg menu. I also didn’t include the dormitory
morning-after-the-kegger breakfast menu. This consists of whatever food
remains on the coffee table…cold pizza, chips and dip, French Fries,
remnants of chili dogs and Big Mac’s, or Buffalo Wings/McNuggets.
True variations to breakfast choices for most of us must wait until
we have the chance to enjoy a brunch. Although the egg menu and the
baked goods/sweet menu are staples of a champagne brunch (drink Mimosa’s
and forget the rest!), there are always a steamship round, Virginia
Ham, gravies and sauces, casseroles, and other lunch or supper type
entrées to choose from.
I like standard breakfasts, sometimes. I prefer to vary what I have
as much as possible. I do enjoy sushi and sashimi with a bowl of Miso
soup on the side. I enjoy steamed clams, oysters, or mussels with drawn
butter to dip them in or even steamed crab claws, craw fish, or rock
lobster.
I like a platter of bean and beef burritos with Andouille on the side
covered with salsa, picante, or enchilada sauce and topped with Monterey
Jack baked to perfection. Lasagna is great and beef stew is a treat.
I really enjoy cooking for family get-togethers in the summer. Getting
the BBQ pit going at zero-dark-early with slabs of ribs and pork butts
cooking slowly, lets me nibble all morning long. Forays into the kitchen
to help with the deviled eggs (one for me, six or so on the platters),
and having to taste and test the tater salad, cole slaw, pans of baked
beans, etc., being made…now that’s my idea of a perfect breakfast!
It’s 5:30 AM as I’m writing this and I’ve worked up an appetite. I think
I’ll peel some shrimp, boil some Ramen noodles, shred some Napa cabbage
and onions, crush some garlic and toss it all in a wok and stir fry
in rendered chicken fat. Top it off with a drizzle of rice wine vinegar
and Hoisin sauce, break out my ohashi and I’ll be in clover!
Bon appétit!
The
Bad Sied 
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On this day in history, February
27, 1922: Leser v. Garnett is decided by the US Supreme Court.
Universal suffrage has been a sought after ideal since democracies began
to reappear. Athens, in 508 BC, became the first well-known democracy.
This form of government is based on the premise that power comes from
the people who are free to express their wishes via a free electoral
system. In ancient Athens free men could vote or have their say. Women
and slaves were excluded from the process.
The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on February 3,
1870, less than a year after it was proposed. Now all men, regardless
of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" could
vote. Women, regardless of race, were still not granted this basic right.
The women campaigned for equality of voting privilege and finally –
50 years later – the 19th Amendment was ratified. On August 18, 1920
the right to vote was no longer predicated on the citizen’s sex. The
last state to ratify the Amendment was Mississippi which finally did
so on March 22, 1984.
On October 12, 1920 Cecelia Streett Waters and Mary D. Randolph registered
to vote in the state of Maryland. The state Constitution limited voting
rights to men only. Oscar Leser and others filed suit against the state
board of registry demanding the women’s names be stricken. The case
listed three reasons for the invalid nature of the 19th Amendment. The
US Supreme Court heard the case January 23-24, 1922 with Chief Justice
William H. Taft presiding. Louis Brandeis wrote the unanimous opinion
of the court. The 19th Amendment was indeed valid and women could vote.
Case closed.
In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count
that votes. - Mogens Jallberg
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy
you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have
to waste your time voting. - Charles Bukowski
I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all,
we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. - Claire Sargent
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“Chaos
in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.”
~ Steve Martin ~
I started this morning in a bit of a blur. I was woken at about three
in the morning by my five-year-old son, who was feeling lonely. I went
and slept with him on the spare bed. I was OK with this, by the way.
My boys know they can come to me at any time of the day or night, and
there are way worse things than getting to hug my kids in the middle
of the night. Anyway, about an hour later, I awoke to the sounds of
a commotion coming from the bedroom where my husband was now sleeping
alone. It turned out that our three-year-old had woken up, drifted to
our room, and started hitting my husband on the arm. My husband had
asked him why he was hitting him, and with a three-year-old’s perfect
logic, my son had replied, “You’re not Mommy!”
So anyway, I ended up trying to grab a couple of hours of sleep with
the kids on either side of me. They were wedging me in, so I was not
able to move. Fortunately, when it was time for me to get my bleary-eyed
self out of bed, they were both sleeping so soundly that my efforts
to extricate myself did not wake them.
I was very tired when I got to work, having not slept and all that.
Things are extremely busy at work right now, and I really don’t have
time to be tired. But it was OK. My plan was to dose myself up with
lots of coffee, nap through the one meeting I had scheduled, and spend
the rest of the day getting through all the work I had to do. And the
morning started out as planned. I got to work armed with my extra-large
coffee, settled down at my desk, and had a lovely time for the first
hour doing mindless but essential work.
Then I headed off to my meeting and kind of got through it on auto-pilot.
Right towards the end, though, my dozy serenity was shattered when people
started yelling at each other. It was kind of surreal, really. Usually
meetings at my place of work are very civilized occasions. No-one yells,
no-one argues, if disagreements arise those concerned postpone their
disagreement for later resolution outside of the meeting. So when two
people at this morning’s meeting got into a heated argument, it came
as a complete surprise to the rest of us. And when the arguing escalated
into actual yelling, it was just bizarre. One guy was so upset that
he was almost lunging across the table. When the two of them were yelling
with their faces literally inches from each other, I decided it was
time for me to leave. I muttered a vague statement about needing to
work on my project plan, and I fled back to my desk. Later on in the
day, I was relieved to see both people who had been involved in the
argument (on separate occasions, of course). I was relieved because
I now had evidence that they hadn’t actually killed each other after
I’d left.
The rest of the day passed in a flurry of activitiy. Everything I did
had to be done in a hurry. I ended up working late, and I hardly noticed
the time passing by. I only paused from time to time when I realized
that there was too much blood in my coffee system, and had to do something
about it.
Finally I got home, looking forward to a nice relaxing evening. The
first thing I did was look at a lovely poster of artwork that my son
had done at school. Unfortunately, as I was putting it down, I gave
myself a big paper-cut and started bleeding to death. All I had to seal
the wound was a Winnie the Pooh Band-Aid.
And now it is almost time for the kids to go to bed. Once they are asleep,
I am going to sit back, watch Hell’s Kitchen, and relax with a nice
big glass of red wine. Hopefully I won’t cut my hand on the wine-glass.
It’s been that kind of day.
Kaleidoscopically yours,
Kirsten
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Do you have an annoying neighbor? You know the type of person I’m talking
about. They will stop by when you’re eating dinner, and when you explain
to them that you are eating dinner, they will tell you it only take a
minute. Then they start yapping and you try getting rid of them by asking
what they want but they yap some more even though they aren’t really saying
anything. By the time you are able to get rid of them, your dinner is
cold.
Now that can be mildly annoying, but when they show up the next night
when they know you’re eating dinner, it becomes more annoying. When
they do it again the next night, it becomes really annoying. You can
make it painfully obvious that you are annoyed, and they’ll ask why.
You can tell them you’re eating dinner, but that didn’t work the first
time, so it won’t work now. They’ll still show up the next night when
you’re eating dinner.
They constantly ask to borrow things, most notably money. “I’ll pay
you back on Friday,” they claim. Then Friday comes and goes and they
don’t stop by. You start thinking that lending them money was worth
getting rid of them. At least they won’t disturb your dinner until
they pay you back. Or so you think. A couple of days go by and they
show up with half your money… during dinner. They have an excuse,
of course, and spend an hour telling you their tale of woe. But they
again think you’ve given them a reprieve, and start stopping by every
night during dinner again. You finally get pissed off and tell them
not to stop by between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
So they call you instead. At 6:15 p.m. Or they stop by when you’re
writing and interrupt your train of thought because they want to check
your furnace filter and end up breaking it. You tell them to leave
now, but they aren’t “hearing” you. They want to “fix” it. You explain
you can “fix” it better than they can. They try again and break it
more. You open the door and push them out, and they stick their foot
in the door when you try to shut it. Insurance salesmen aren’t that
annoying.
I don’t have a neighbor like that. My neighbor called me at 2:00
a.m., when I was in deep REM sleep, to ask me if he could borrow a
cigarette.
Anyone care to venture a guess as to what my answer was?
Tim a’Musing
Having a Ball with Privacy
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For Old Newspaper
roll,
secure in middle with elastic and fringe one end to use to get rid
of cobwebs. - NorCalKat
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That was good, here’s another line from Anne.
Next opening line…
I think that I saw Ellyn’s gnu…
Hints:
Here’s a great new rhyming/composition tool. http://www.writerhymes.com/
There’s also a great rhyming dictionary at http://www.rhymezone.com/
Limerick rules. http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm
Submit
Opening Line
Submit
Limerick
I
once knew a guy from Ukraine
Who developed a terrible pain
In his ass, don’t you know
Because his shit wouldn’t flow
And it finally drove him insane. - Bonnie |
I
once knew a guy from Ukraine
Who normally travelled by train
But Frisco-L.A.
Was just one train a day
Witn a change(!) - so he got on a plane - Julian,
England |
I once knew
a girl from Ukraine
Who I think used air-for-a-brain.
While hunting to relax
She followed some tracks
But was hit from behind by a train. - Anne Onimous |
I once knew
a guy from Ukraine
Who tried to winter in southern Spain.
"Since the fares are sky-high,
I’ll flap my arms to fly
Instead of taking the airplane." - Anne Onimous |
I once knew
a guy from Ukraine
While hunting, saw a nude gal named Jane.
With a smile asked "You game?"
"Yes," replied that dame
So he shot her (which was insane). - Anne Onimous |
I once knew
a girl from Ukraine
Who had an extremely long mane
That when she got married
And her hair she gussied
She gladly used it for her train. - Anne Onimous |
I once knew
a guy from Ukraine
Who built a house on a floodplain
It had a nice design
For a while things were fine
Until the day of the heavy rain.- Anne Onimous |
I once knew
a guy from Ukraine
Who loved to eat chicken chow Mein
He loved its taste but
He had a touchy gut
And generated tons of methane. - E. Cole Aye |
I once knew
a girl from Ukraine
Who said, "Chernobyl has been our bane
Though it makes me sad
But it is not all bad
We get to glow each time it does rain!" - E. Cole Aye |
I once knew
a girl from Ukraine
Orgasms she would often feign
When she was asked why
She’d answer with a sigh
The noise my neighbors will complain. - E. Cole Aye |
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Re: More Technology
Before the fix for the right side of the page being cut off I used to
be able to copy & paste the chuckle of the day I am no longer able
to perform this action as only am able to highlight the opening sentence
after that nothing happens using the latest version of Thunderbird.
- Thanks again, Glenn
[I have not gotten the same
result in either my Outlook or online mail programs. We are looking
into it and one of our "specialists" uses Thunderbird and
will look at the problem with the next issue. - Patti]
[Surely
you aren’t copying and pasting in order to send it to others.
I was able to copy the "Today’s Chuckle"
and paste it into Notepad successfully using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.19
(20081209) which is the latest version (verified from their website
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
)
I went further to check and was successfully able to click & drag
to copy all the text from the 2/25/09 issue, including the automatic
paragraph that is not a part of our publication that Yahoo inserts at
the end of the issue, which states, "To subscribe, please send
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feel that you’ve been subscribed in error, or if you no longer wish
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I use an HP cordless mouse that sometimes loses the "click &
drag", especially when the batteries get low. I’ve experienced
this symptom only when my mouse roars.
Cliff (the High Tech Redneck who doesn’t rate a fancy ’signature pic’)
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Reader
Submission
Since the time Bruce
left the e-zine, I have noticed the language printed by the publication
has taken on a much rougher tone. While I’m not offended by it, I think
the "new tone" is not necessary. I think it has been a wonderful
publication and I’m sorry to see the standard of language has fallen
below the level set by Bruce. I’m not sure of your reasons for this,
but I certainly hate to see you stoop to the levels of some other e-zines
and the generally declining standards of the public as a whole. I felt
the standards established by Bruce were what placed this publication
at a few notches above others. (Just my opinion.) - Wayne
[Wayne,
I haven’t noticed a drastic change. Bruce believed in letting
the readers speak their minds as long as there were no personal attacks,
and I’ve tried to follow his example. As we’ve discussed before,
the limericks tend to be a little more "adult" in nature so
I don’t think that’s not what you’re referring to. If you have
a specific incidence you’re referring to, please let me know.
I don’t think any of the staff writers would deliberately try to offend
anyone, but I will discuss it with them if you feel they have offended
you. Thanks for your comment.]
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