tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59558142011-04-21T12:25:36.774-07:00If This is a Man ~ The TruceMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1108162717459845802005-02-11T14:57:00.000-08:002005-02-11T15:09:21.270-08:00This keeps getting better and better. In the latest development of the Bush administration's Reich Ministryof Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, I mean, um, U.S. Department of Education, I mean wait no the White House Press Corps, yet another individual has been found guilty of recieving special treatment, to say the least, from the Bush Administration.That's right, Mr. Jeff Gannon 's true Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1099728490657330562004-11-06T01:06:00.000-08:002004-11-06T00:10:34.033-08:00The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so"profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet,which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic(absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1094796594704447672004-09-09T22:36:00.000-07:002004-09-10T07:28:13.520-07:00WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
In a new development on the ongoing monitoring of Iranian nuclear weapons capabilities, Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian defector, reports that Iran is using "existing differences between the U.S. and Europe to their advantage and tries to drag out talks with the EU to buy time."
Reuters also reports that "the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1094417789327219272004-09-05T13:56:00.000-07:002004-09-05T14:48:08.750-07:00The U.S. is stuck between a rock and a hard spot with the crisis in Sudan. Something obviously needs to be done about the escalating humanitarian crisis. Well, why haven’t the U.S. and global community done more to stop the deaths of innocent men, women and children?It's a complicated situation. First, the United States must cope with a sticky history of intervention in foreign countries and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1090275522027503632004-07-19T15:17:00.000-07:002004-07-20T08:14:44.163-07:00JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS?: Martha Stewart, in a recent court decision ,was sentenced to five months in prison followed by five months of house arrest for lying about a sketchy stock deal. The queen of home economics remarked that "today is a shameful day." Following her conviction however, Martha Stewart Living stock prices jumped, suggesting that Martha's time in prison may not ruin her life after Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089756452924650672004-07-13T15:04:00.000-07:002004-07-13T15:10:23.786-07:00Even if the culprit is Osama bin Laden, and we track him down, and we kill him and destroy his network, he's won.
That's because he is ready to die, and the people who support him are ready to die. Americans aren't ready to die. Under those circumstances, you begin to see some of the cracks in a determinedly bourgeois civilization, which is basically about securing safety rather than securing Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089587214078888302004-07-11T15:44:00.000-07:002004-07-11T16:10:10.766-07:00SOMETHING LEFT OUT: Greg Behrman, in an article from the International Herald Tribune, kindly posted on Oxblog, outlines AIDS as a threat to global security.
So often in the discussion of AIDS as a global epidemic, one key point is left out; Behrman's article begs the question throughout: why does AIDS spread so fast in developing countries?
The most common answer is obvious: because it's a Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089454428307243472004-07-10T02:55:00.004-07:002004-07-11T16:48:03.633-07:00FALSE SHUFFLE: Four years ago the Bush campaign appealed to the desire to restore moral dignity and honor to the presidency; which, conservatives claim, we lost under America's eight years with Clinton.
But the release of the Abu Ghraib photos swept the rug of moral superiority out from underneath the Bush administration. Barking dogs at the faces of naked prisoners. The nightmare of handcuffed,Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089421635147361842004-07-09T18:06:00.000-07:002004-07-09T18:07:15.146-07:00
Amen.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089421308528477882004-07-09T17:57:00.000-07:002004-07-09T18:01:48.530-07:00GENOCIDE IN OUR TIME: Maybe the Germans have learned from the horror of carrying out genocide, but the rest of the world sure hasn't. Congress approved $311 million for "food, clothing and other disaster aid; $70 million to improve agriculture and roads; $53 million to help people who have fled to camps in Sudan."
It sounds really lovely and I'm glad we're offering it. But offering people food Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1089420763429954532004-07-09T17:44:00.000-07:002004-07-09T17:52:43.430-07:00MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IS AN OXYMORON: They're changing their song. This recent senate report on the failure of the CIA in accurately analyzing intelligence data points to the politization of the intelligence services. Such politization might be harmful for accurate intelligence gathering. But if anything it points to the fact that Clinton's "if it feels good let's do it" approach to foreign Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-108794947723402922004-06-22T16:55:00.000-07:002004-06-22T17:11:17.233-07:00Iraqi terrorists behead S. Korean
Bush believed he had to waive International Torture Laws.
Fahrenheit 9/11 gets an "R" rating.
It's the Impunity, stupid.
The National Review has yet another incoherent criticism of Michael Moore.
Donald Rumsfeld ordered prisoners hid from the Red Cross.
What would a John Kerry foreign policy look like? A George H.W. Bush foreign policy would be alot better Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1087819265467161332004-06-21T04:59:00.000-07:002004-06-21T05:01:05.466-07:00I thought this was really interesting:
Top Donations to President Bush's Campaign:
Enron Corp. $602,625
MBNA Corp. $597,041
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. $564,404
Pricewaterhouse Coopers $485,448
Vinson & Elkins $476,400
UBS AG Inc $474,300
Credit Suisse First Boston $473,650
Goldman Sachs Group $409,449
Bass Brothers Enterprises $397,427
Ernst & Young LLP $384,154
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1087643745599763582004-06-19T04:15:00.000-07:002004-06-19T04:15:45.600-07:00"The rich have the right to buy more homes than anyone else. They have the right to buy more cars than anyone else, more gizmos than anyone else, more clothes and vacations than anyone else. But they do not have the right to buy more democracy than anyone else."Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1087591208000630732004-06-18T13:39:00.000-07:002004-06-18T13:40:08.000-07:00Morgen frueh oder nie
Morgen schon.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1087401358359871062004-06-16T08:54:00.000-07:002004-06-16T08:55:58.360-07:00I think this says something more important about the state of moral character in America than this.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1087217608080217912004-06-14T05:53:00.000-07:002004-06-14T05:53:28.080-07:00Fight terrorism with DemocracyMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1086615743117995312004-06-07T06:41:00.000-07:002004-06-07T06:42:23.116-07:00,,Die Menschen koennten besser schlafen, wenn sie nicht wuessten, was in der Wurst und in der Politik sei." Otto von BismarckMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1086227836836293362004-06-02T18:53:00.000-07:002004-06-02T19:17:51.326-07:00I have a favorite way to sum up the differences between American and Germany culture: in America you have a constitutional right to own a gun. In Germany, you have a constitutional right to study at the University.
I think this quip emphasizes a sum of cultural differences between Europeans and Americans not only in terms of gun culture but also the importance of education, economics, health Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1085521951641332052004-05-25T14:49:00.000-07:002004-05-25T14:52:31.640-07:00der letzte Boden, der vom Geiste der Gerechtigkeit erobert wird, ist der Boden des reaktiven Gefuehls!
the last territory to be conquered by the spirit of justice is the land of the reactive emotions!
-Zur Genealogie der Moral, Zweite Abhandl,: ,,Schuld", ,,schlechtes Gewissen", Verwandtes" Friedrich Nietzsche.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1085359960835435782004-05-23T17:50:00.000-07:002004-05-23T17:52:40.836-07:00I think if Bush gets re-elected. There's going to be a draft.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1085094588178529782004-05-20T16:09:00.000-07:002004-05-20T16:10:44.600-07:00Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land beMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1084228853557203522004-05-10T15:38:00.000-07:002004-05-11T12:42:03.933-07:00Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083856730725767292004-05-06T08:18:00.000-07:002004-05-06T08:23:17.390-07:00ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT did it for me today, the New York Times that is. After a recent conversation on the economy reality underlining MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds Ad, I've been keeping an eye out for a nice internet economic explanation of why running huge deficits is bad for the economy in the long term. I hadn't found any good articles. But Alan Greenspan denounced the enormous Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083791622957725852004-05-05T14:13:00.000-07:002004-05-06T08:09:01.686-07:00Die Existenz revoluntionärer Gedanken in einer bestimmten Epoche setzt bereits die Existenz einer revoluntionären Klasse Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083714078635565792004-05-04T16:41:00.000-07:002004-05-04T17:02:53.200-07:00The full text of a letter from some 50 retired US diplomats urging President Bush to reverse his Middle East policy.
Dear Mr President:
We former US diplomats applaud our 52 British colleagues who recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair criticising his Middle East policy and calling on Britain to exert more influence over the United States.
As retired foreign service officers we Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083713993528448152004-05-04T16:39:00.000-07:002004-05-04T16:43:42.280-07:00The pictures of American soldiers torturing Iraqis might be fake.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083675806470537612004-05-04T06:03:00.000-07:002004-05-06T08:09:19.686-07:00THE PRICE OF OIL hit the highest peak since 1990 today. What does this mean for all of us that don't own automobiles? It means, that if history is any key, and if Oil Prices stay high, a democrat might win the presidency. More about that here.
Look at the past elections. With Carter, a Democrat, oil prices were up and he won. Reagan, oil prices were down so he won- a Republican. With Bush the Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083502126660041712004-05-02T05:48:00.000-07:002004-05-02T05:55:45.200-07:00THIS JUST IN 1,361 Iraqis killed in April.
A new report by Amnesty International declares that the ridiculing of Iraqi prisoners was not an isolated event.
The presidency is no longer about who the best person for the job is. It's about how cool you are.
Bill Mayer said it perfectly: the American public hears about the ridiculous debate of John Kerry's medals, and George Bush skipping out onMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083256722217444802004-04-29T09:38:00.000-07:002004-04-29T09:42:59.233-07:00It's always good to know what a large majority of the world thinks of the United States.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083090577508812252004-04-27T11:29:00.000-07:002004-04-27T11:36:04.030-07:00GO AWAY KANT, YOU'RE BOTHERING ME I began the attempt at reading Philosophy in German, an assigned text for my Thursday class titled "Moral Criticism." The first reading my lovely Professor assigned for us is a selection from Max Stirner's book Ego and his Own. It's fun to try to read Philosophy in German. Although I will say that because it is in German, and because the book was published in Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083012028714818562004-04-26T13:40:00.000-07:002004-04-26T13:44:41.670-07:00What do we do now?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1083003953632867762004-04-26T11:25:00.000-07:002004-04-26T11:33:10.140-07:00Excerpts from letters to his wife from Second Lt. Todd J. Bryant, 23, of Riverside, Calif. Lieutenant Bryant was killed on Oct. 31 by a homemade bomb while on patrol near Fallujah.
Friday, Sept. 19, 2003
I lack the words to express the whirlwind of emotions I am going through right now. We are still in Iraq, one day from getting to our base camp. So far the road has been safe, but tomorrow we Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082940502996692322004-04-25T17:48:00.000-07:002004-04-25T18:11:11.700-07:00Americans need to learn to how to talk about politics. I think the fundamental problem that underscores the lack of real political debate in America (and outside the states) is that we don't learn a correct grammar for discussing politics in a rational, constructive way. So instead, we talk about how we don't like a candidate because they're from some state, or look a particular way, or said Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082854512389791302004-04-24T17:55:00.000-07:002004-04-24T18:20:35.153-07:00"Iraq is not Vietnam. Iraq is worse" said my Syrian roommate to me Thursday night. This reminded me of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam." It provides an eerie warning, and sounds eerily like what America is doing in Iraq today (edited for length):
And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond in Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082592685208983142004-04-21T17:11:00.000-07:002004-04-21T17:17:01.216-07:00conservative
SYLLABICATION: con·ser·va·tive
PRONUNCIATION: kn-sûrv-tv
ADJECTIVE: 1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. 2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit. 3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate. 4a. Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism. b. Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement. 5. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082583589439441152004-04-21T14:39:00.000-07:002004-04-21T15:00:00.483-07:00I think it says something about the nature of the United States and our goals in Iraq that we currently have more mercenary soldiers fighting for America than British. I think a better name for the Coalition of the Willing would have been the "Coalition of the Corporations."
I mean, it's a war argued for, fought by, and fought for, the corporations of America. They bought out the Presidency, Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082406376665910802004-04-19T09:02:00.000-07:002004-04-19T14:20:42.966-07:00Today, ladies in gentlemen in case you didn't realize it, is April 19th. On April 19th 1995 at 9:02 a.m. Timothy McVeigh and others blew up a Ryder truck filled with a fertilizer bomb 12 miles from my house, killing 168 people and wounding many others. For those of you who don't know much about it, you can read a bit here
For those of you who will never have the opportunity to visit the Okc Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082379759768504472004-04-19T06:02:00.000-07:002004-04-19T06:09:08.560-07:00I think Woodward's CBS interview clears up one thing: Bush is a nightmare. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082296243002086322004-04-18T06:50:00.000-07:002004-04-18T08:51:49.590-07:00Air America, a new radio station by Al Franken and others, is hip. Granted we always have NPR and a host of others, but NPR is still (and yes I know it's liberal) a little to conservative, and tied to the machine to actually say what needs to be said. Plus, as far as internet radio goes, it's pretty good quality.
I also find it comical that the Cheney & Bush for president now has a Dbunker Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082158530675313592004-04-16T16:35:00.000-07:002004-04-16T16:39:30.246-07:00What I really want to know, is what the hell does "stay the course" really mean? And, do they really think that it's going to just work and handy dandy pass it over to Iraq on June 30th? Iraq is getting worse and worse every day, unfortunately, and I'm curious to know the details of the U.S. government plan for Iraq, but apparently we still don't have one, other than the latest idea of the Bush Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1082157304300512932004-04-16T16:15:00.000-07:002004-04-16T16:19:03.996-07:00I have returned. I embarked on a Month long journey on March 20th, heading to Munich and environs to see Dachau. I took the night train to Paris, and spent the week living off of chocolate nutella crepes and famous art. I managed to swing up to Amsterdam to watch (watch, that is) all the pot smokers and to catch a tour of the Anne Frank House, which was moving and quite larger than I thought it Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1079652683498704842004-03-18T15:31:00.000-08:002004-04-11T11:16:47.153-07:00You're all dressed up
and ready to go
here I come
tattered and slow
It's music for me
It's music for you
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1079198713086280522004-03-13T09:25:00.000-08:002004-03-13T09:51:20.856-08:00Alright I realize that I'm not the quickest with blog updates, but I will try to krank em out more often. I think there's a phenomenon of diminishing marginal returns existent in the online world of blogging: It starts with a honeymoon phase "Yeah Look At Me I have a blog!!" then detracts into a sort of "well they'll still read it If I just post once a week," then that drops to once a month, and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1078428968506761662004-03-04T11:36:00.000-08:002004-03-04T11:39:08.700-08:00Alright so it's been a while. Give me a break here, I'm living in a foreign country and there are plenty of distractions.
So I went to Berlin a few weeks ago. Amazing city! Everyone should go at some point in their life. I would argue that perhaps no other city has such recent, visibile, history than Berlin. History that is important to the course of world events that is.
I'm doing well. I Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1076438740543683862004-02-10T10:45:00.000-08:002004-02-10T10:50:29.403-08:00James Fallows, an Atlantic national correspondent and former presidential speechwriter, has provided us with an annotated version of President Bush's State of the Union Address. It's fascinating in that it lets you into the mind of a speechwriter, and opens the door for the subtelties that speechwriters play off of, to elucite various rhetorical effects in the listener. Much of his commentary Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075820250803510062004-02-03T06:57:00.000-08:002004-02-03T06:59:49.936-08:00Quality, value, style, service, selection, convenience, economy, savings, performance, experience, hospitality, low rates, friendly service, name brands, easy terms, affordable prices, money-back guarantee, free installation. Free admission, free appraisal, free alterations, free delivery, free estimates, free home trial, and free parking. No cash? No problem. No kidding! No fuss, no muss, no Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075748778536162782004-02-02T11:06:00.000-08:002004-02-02T11:08:36.450-08:00I said what you wanted to hear
And what I wanted to say
So I will take it back
Are all the dishes intact?
Let them be broken
It’s easy to be
Easy and free
When it doesn’t mean anything
You remain selfless, cold and composed
You’ve done me no favor
To call and be nice
Telling me i
Can take anything I like
You don’t owe me to be so polite
You’ve done no wrong
You’ve done no wrong
Get out of my Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075590297833910972004-01-31T15:04:00.000-08:002004-01-31T15:22:18.763-08:00Watched the State of the Union Address, aside from the fact that I wasn't impressed, that Bush exaggeratted the social impact of his public polcy benefits, AND ripped a oratory metaphor from the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it did remind me of an article by David Hilfiker about how social Charity essentially chokes justice being played out due to the injustice inherent in the system: be it Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075327621271959282004-01-28T14:07:00.000-08:002004-02-04T15:31:06.920-08:00Finally someone said it. With all the hoopla in Congress about "Freedom Fries" and the hushed whispers of the chicken French and sissy Germans, finally someone came out and said the reason Europeans are so opposed to war. Europeans are not cowards, It's that they know war.
The reason Germany doesn't want to get involved in major international conflict is that they started the worst last two.
InMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075237779564074172004-01-27T13:09:00.000-08:002004-01-27T14:00:14.983-08:00Persuasive arguments can be made for either side.
It's just dependent on which books you've read.
Nothing like the hour and a half long English to German translation class to make you feel like you don't know a language.Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075155004719615602004-01-26T14:10:00.000-08:002004-01-26T14:12:13.140-08:00Saturday in Munich, next weekend skiing in the alps, a couple of weekends after that four days in Berlin....
am I dreaming?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1074902300354596692004-01-23T15:58:00.000-08:002004-01-23T16:21:18.140-08:00Grüß Gott! Servus! Guten Tag! Hallo!
So the last four were ways to say hello in German. Servus and Grüß Gott are Bavarian greetings, and Hallo is common among students. So I finally got internet hooked up in my room, so I can send out e-mails!
So I arrived the Thursday the 15th. At JFK airport, after I said goodbye to my brother, I found a group of 16-17 of the students from the program. The Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1075239482506243642004-01-19T10:35:00.000-08:002004-01-27T13:40:12.013-08:00The following is an excerpt from a speech given by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 3, 1968. Referred to as the "Mountaintop" speech, it openly discusses the difficult problems of the era and offers solutions based on practical action and biblical idealism. It is best known, however, for its ending, where Dr. King prophesizes a vision of the future that is perhaps the most stirring and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1071651976561520452003-12-17T01:06:00.000-08:002003-12-17T01:06:30.770-08:00I will remember you. Will you remember me?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1071651827634973252003-12-17T01:03:00.000-08:002003-12-17T01:04:01.863-08:00So I said I'd update this after I had some more rest. I got ten hours last night, which is a record for me for within the past month.
The last few days have been bittersweet, spending time with people I'm either not going to see again until next August, or not going to see again on a regular basis again. But this is life I guess. Growing up sometimes isn't fun.
On a happier note, I originally Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1071554353465446782003-12-15T21:59:00.000-08:002003-12-15T21:59:26.613-08:00Michael officially wins the award for the longest amount time between blogs. If I had waited another, it would have been a month. Wow. How time flies. I have one final left. The common question lately has been, where did my semester go? Where did the last two and a half years of college go?
Perhaps I'll update this with something more substantial once I've slept for more than four hours.
But Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1069137684973745232003-11-17T22:41:00.000-08:002003-11-17T22:41:31.093-08:00Alright, so it's been a while. My apologies. Time flies when you're having fun. Or something like that, right?
So I'm going to be writing papers until the end of time, or at least non stop for the next four or five weeks. I'll be up all night tonight finishing up the second paper for my aesthetics class.
So last weekend was one of the best ever! Perfect combination of fun, productivity, and Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1068173766543471022003-11-06T18:56:00.000-08:002003-11-06T18:56:09.680-08:00Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1068171648331575652003-11-06T18:20:00.000-08:002003-11-06T18:54:53.090-08:00You can read my article in the latest issue of Orbis, here
So in my logic class today we were examining inductive generalizations that people make in everyday life. The text provided a list of common generalizations. We each wrote a short essay giving arguments for a chosen generalization, and then proceeded to share our arguments with the class.
Needless to say that one of the the inductive Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1067584985486031322003-10-30T23:23:00.000-08:002003-10-31T00:56:51.630-08:00Alright, so it's been a long time I confess. My apologies to anyone who has actually been checking thus far.
So what's new? Well my latest kick is toying with the idea of spending a semester or a year at Vanderbilt as an RA, I figure I could get free room and board, take no classes, and just do extracurriculars for a year! I could write for Orbis, do some worthwhile volunteer work, read all the Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1066546224472622152003-10-18T23:50:00.000-07:002003-10-19T00:02:39.783-07:00The first day of fall break! So sad it has to end. It was a beautiful day here at Vandy, with the leaves on the trees starting to change colors. Although, campus was a little quiet with everybody gone for fall break.
So I slept in until noon. Realizing I had no clean clothes, I went to the bookstore and cashed a check so I'd have some money to do laundry. I got a haircut, grabbed some jimmy Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1066409044547617892003-10-17T22:17:00.000-07:002003-10-17T21:58:14.663-07:00Went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant over on blakemore and 21st. To my suprise, it is now a buffett!
All of my suitemates except David are leaving, so it will be quite around here for the next few days.
Hopefully I'll get some work. But. I doubt it. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-1066428564323920122003-10-17T15:09:00.000-07:002003-10-17T21:53:36.743-07:00Right, so I'm done with class and work, and it is officially now fall break!
I made my deposit today for studying at Regensburg. $200, thankfully today was payday! No backing out now. I'm financially committed.
In Ethics today, my TA told us a story with a great moral for anyone academically studying philosophy:
"My heater broke down the other day, so I had to have the landlord come by to Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5955814.post-106640942427704832003-10-17T09:50:00.000-07:002003-10-17T09:50:23.776-07:00So I had some time in between class today, and just decided to dive into the online world of blogging! For friends and others to know what I'm thinking about today...
On another note, the latest issue of the Vanderbilt Orbis is out, you can read my article here Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439358257360062135noreply@blogger.com