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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
(Introduction)
I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes
- Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
posted by Harvey at 7:35:08 PM permalink HOME
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TODAY’S GRAFFITI
CURRENCY
[PRINCESS & BABY 4 EVA... BABY & PRINCESS 4 EVA]
My guess is that she's high maintenance, and he finds wearing adult diapers to be sexually stimulating.
posted by Harvey at 7:33:16 PM permalink HOME
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CELEBRATING DIVERSITY
Yet another excellent fisking by the Emperor. This one on the topic of African-American studies programs being biased. In it somebody mentioned that it was Black History Month, the original purpose of which was:
"an attempt to instill some pride
because there was a belief that American history in general and world
history did not appropriately recognize the contributions of blacks,"
said Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial
Equality, one of America's oldest civil rights groups.
I've heard that argument before, and I don't believe it. Outside of the
very few blacks whose accomplishments I've already heard of (George
Washington Carver springs to mind, but not really anyone else), I don't
think blacks really accomplished a whole lot of note.
Why not?
It's not because they weren't capable or intelligent.
It's because THEY WERE OPPRESSED!
It's not like thousands of blacks did millions of great deeds and then
whitey hushed it all up. They weren't ALLOWED to attain greatness. They
were excluded from institutions of higher learning, and productive
business ventures, and professional sports and the military, and
elective government offices. In what field were they supposed to get anything accomplished? What little that was
accomplished was minor and not noteworthy. I wouldn't expect to find
those acts worthy of study any more than I would expect to find worth
in studying the minor, non-noteworthy accomplishments of the pale
persuasion.
And, quite frankly, out of respect for the value of my own time, I would prefer not to study anyone's minor accomplishments.
Better we should declare February "Successful American Month" and spend
our time looking up to the movers, shakers, heros, and doers that made
this country great, skin color be damned. And if you're black and it
bugs you that "too many" of the great Americans were white, then get
off your ass and be better than they were, instead of trying to water down the criteria for greatness.
posted by Harvey at 7:21:26 PM permalink HOME
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BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES #31
is crackling merrily at Outside the Beltway.
While I was perusing the list of horrors, I re-read something I'd seen
at Susie's place before. As I read it, it occurred to me I should make
a clarification:
*AHEM*
The "not short" "post" Susie was "working on" was not mine.
You heard the denial here first.
posted by Harvey at 7:04:59 PM permalink HOME
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FRANK'S RIGHT
Even though I've only been to New Jersey once, I have to agree with Frank J. of IMAO:
So far, I think the most representative quarter is the New Jersey
quarter. It has the image of George Washington crossing the Delaware.
Take it from someone who lived in New Jersey for nine years: there is
no more apropos an image for Jersey than a bunch of people leaving it.
posted by Harvey at 6:47:33 AM permalink HOME
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TOLD YA HE WAS SMART
Steven of USS Clueless, in an atypically concise post, had perhaps THE best observation about this year's Superbowl:
The biggest story was the one we didn't read: "Terrorist attack causes
30,000 deaths". It is the deafening silence, the dog not barking in the
night. For the third straight year since 9/11, a crowd the size of a
small city concentrated itself in a stadium and sat for several hours
to watch the most heavily televised live event of the year. And then
that crowd dispersed and went home.
posted by Harvey at 6:41:14 AM permalink HOME
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