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After the money’s gone – Buyer’s Remorse

By ~LS~ On December 31, 2006 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Geek, Television, What I Did Today

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Internet Addiction

By ~LS~ On December 26, 2006 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes

In an article about Internet Addiction from CNN.com. The article tries to assert that internet addiction is a fact, but it struggles to do so, since there is no real evidence to suggest that it is. The term they use is “clinically addictive.” The article states:

Red flags should start flying, however, if time spent vanquishing electronic enemies or keeping up on e-mail results in reprimands from your employer and arguments with loved ones.

Which is true for anything. Addicts can be addicted to -anything-, whether it is the internet, or television, or anything else. At least the article admits this much. You’d think that, after ten years, the paranoia about the internet would settle down some.

Anyway, my three gratitudes for the day are
1. My new flat-screen monitor
2. Christmas at home
3. Leftover lasagne.

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Gratitudes

By ~LS~ On December 24, 2006 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes

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Hillary Campaign

By ~LS~ On December 24, 2006 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Hillary, Obama, Politics, Sexism

From Human Events, the national conservative weekly since 1944, comes an article called Running Against the Right Hillary. In one of the most bizarre perceptions of Hillary that I think I’ve ever read, this article divides Hillary into two candidates. The senator, who the author believes will be easy to beat, and the media darling first lady, who the author believes will be impossible to beat.

If we run against Hillary Clinton as the former first lady, if we run against her as the wife of Bill Clinton, if we run against the cherished darling of the media who spent eight years all but canonizing her as America’s patron saint, she’ll win.

What the fuck? _Since When_ has Hillary been America’s patron saint. She was lambasted regularly by the media during Bill’s tenure, and Hillary-hating became one of America’s favorite pasttimes. What planet are these guys [...]

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Random Musings

By ~LS~ On December 23, 2006 · Add Comment · In Politics, The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Hillary, Obama, Rape, What I Did Today

* Hillary and Barack are on the cover of Newsweek this week. There’s nothing of real interest in the article; it’s just more speculation about the democratic primaries.

* The Duke Rape Case is being dropped because of lack of dna evidence. I’m sure there’s something Foucaultian to be said here about the money shot and (in)visible signifiers of rape, and the technologies of the legal system, but I’m not quite sure what it would be.

* I have two of four syllabi ready to go for the Spring and I’m slowly making my way through the textbooks. I’m worried, since I’ve thrown out all my stuff in a massive purge, that I don’t have very many resources. It’s going to be a true scramble next semester. I have got to stay on top of the ball and not be a flake.

* Today is mine and Stevie’s [...]

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By ~LS~ On December 22, 2006 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Harry Potter, Pop Culture

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