Quote of the hour

In a news article about President Obama refusing to participate in the National Day of Prayer I found this gem.

But, despite numerous attempts to get a representative from the executive office to attend, "it doesn't appear they are going to fulfill our request," said Becky Armstrong, marketing and media manager of the National Day of Prayer Task Force.

I understand that some can see Obama's refusal as a lack of religiosity. But when the National Day of Prayer has a marketing and media manager and a Task Force, how can we call it prayer? It sounds to me like one of those hyped events to force people into bandwagoning for an empty cause to promote religious affiliation. At what cost would non-participation come? Nothing but being the focus of whispered gossip in your small nook of Anytown, USA.

Gotta start somewhere

Intolerable Beauty

Beautiful photography

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

The eyes of a dialectical thinker

I knew you needed some kind of physiological enhancement to make the both-and move and make it stick.

I recall Burke writing in his Attitudes Toward History in a later foreward or afterword that he had begun seeing everything double for a bit there in early 1980.

So, mudskippers and chameleons might be the wisest creatures in the universe? Talk amongst yourselves.

The anatomy of a joke gone wrong

1.
Dear Friends,

I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a reasonably priced
(affordable to a graduate student) yet reliable plumber?

Thank you,
Matt Vorell

Matthew S. Vorell, MA
Department of Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
UCB 270
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2.
Mario, my building's superintendent , is a reasonable plumber.
.....................
Jason Lesko
Department of Communication, UCB 270
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0270
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3.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the referral. What is Mario's phone number?

Matt


Matthew S. Vorell, MA
Department of Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
UCB 270
Boulder, CO 80309
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4.
I apologize Matt. It was a joke: Mario my superintendent = Mario the Super = Super Mario
Now that guy had a way with plumbing.

The facist ideology of Star Trek

http://www.friesian.com/trek.htm

Brilliance ensues.

Don't fear the reaper

Writer Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself - Police

1 hour, 8 minutes ago Top Stories - Reuters



DENVER (Reuters) - Hunter S. Thompson, the renowned American journalist and novelist who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said. He was 67. "We do have confirmation that Hunter Thompson was found dead this evening of an apparent self-inflicted wound," said Tricia Louthis, spokeswoman for the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office. Thompson was found dead at his home outside the ski resort of Aspen. The Sheriff's Office was unable to provide any further details.

Check out these pics though. I think he was racing the reaper.


May 15, 2001


June 21, 2004

That's either the three hardest years of living or he's cancer filled and fading fast.