My Grandfather who died when I was 4 used to tell this joke before my mother was born. It predates his coming to America in 1906. (more…)
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A very old Catholic Joke
Posted: March 10, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, fun, odditiesTags: comedy, family
About that letter to the Bishop concerning Anna Maria College…
Posted: March 1, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, personalTags: family, religion
…apparently he forwarded it to the college president Jack P. Calareso who wrote me a letter that I received yesterday disputing my impression of the college.
You might remember I promised to post the letter I sent, I’m going to hold off a bit until I get permission to post the president’s response at the same time. As his letter was a private letter I’d rather not post it without consulting him first. That way you can get my opinion and his rebuttal at the same time and make up your own mind.
Tim Blair links to an article by John Hawkins about how online stuff has changed the way things are done:
Well, you have individuals from all over the world who can talk anonymously to people with whom they have no personal connection, and they can say absolutely anything without fear of being punched in the nose. Put another way, the Internet takes away all the factors that keep people from saying the rude things that they may be thinking, but wouldn’t blurt out if they were face to face with another human being. On a more sinister note, the Internet allows misfits, sexual deviants, and sociopaths to form communities outside the mainstream where they can reinforce each others’ values.
I once mentioned that everyone has a crazy uncle who has odd ideas. Link them by the net and you have not an Army of Davids but an army of crazy uncles.
Blair has a suggestion:
It’s generally best when writing online – anonymously or otherwise – to observe the “would I say that if the person I was saying it about were right in front of me?” rule.
That wouldn’t make any difference at all if it was my brother who was talking. He thinks “tacit” is what you use to put up things on a bulletin board.
The unions like it
Posted: February 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: economy, family, obama
My wife’s union got a call from her union urging her to call our senators to support the “stimulus” bill. As our Senator’s are Kennedy and Kerry that would be a waste of time as they would support this president if it was a bill to declare English Muffins a war crime, even if she was inclined to support the bill (she’s not).
That is also why I haven’t called since it would be a waste of time in Massachusetts. I’ll do it with my congressman Olver since it is the least liberal district in the state (which isn’t saying much) and from meeting him a nice guy.
This is in my opinion a really lousy bill. It’s not as bad a first move as Clinton’s don’t ask don’t tell goes but its going to be a bad hit for him. Hopefully it will bring him down to earth. The speed of the bill suggests it. And unlike the Patriot act potentially tens of thousands of life are not in immediate danger. And if you think they are, talk to some depression era people about what hard times actually are.
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