Category: censored opinions
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The Pot Hole
In the past few years, I’ve seen politicians found campaigns upon the legalization of Mary Jane, encountered books titled everything from Puff or Pass? to Pot, Inc., and heard some of the most logically unsound arguments for any position on any topic ever applied to why we should legalize NOW! People have loaded up on…
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Marching with 50,000 Peacemakers and the Silences that Followed
A single glance at America today can throw me into a rage and my rage prompts me to write. When a piece is born of wrath, I set it out in the windowsill and let it cool. Like a pie. Like rhubarb pie — the kind of pie I detest but must eat anyway because I…
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Like, Literally, and the Ethics of Interviews
It’s less about some snobbish proper usage and more about the life-cycle of words. Words are organisms and on this side of the new creation, organisms die off. There was a time where “lust” meant “delight in one’s beloved” or “love between spouses.” Now it means… well… lust. You know, like billboards of Victoria’s Secrete…
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Warren Buffett Stock Picks :: How He Choses
When Warren figures out that a company holds a durable competitive advantage, he will only invest if it makes “business sense” to him. Since you’re buying pieces of a company, he thinks you should see each share as representative of the whole—you should only buy a share if you’d buy the whole company, in other…
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Why I like the description of God as “jealous”
Often I hear people like Mr. Dawkins ask, “How could I believe in a god who feels such a petty emotion as jealousy?” I’ll set aside my opinion of calling jealousy an emotion for the moment and focus on the thrust of the statement. The statement assumes that coveting — wanting someone else’s possessions or…
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Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit
You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…
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The Internet is not immortal
The way we talk internetology, you’d think we believe the internet’s going to be around forever. The ways we use the cloud, our emails, social networks all point to our basic assumption of internet permanency. But there are things we should consider that factor into the internet’s mortality: Physical property As of now, all internet…
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No, I won’t Google it. I’m asking you.
For the record, I’m not directing this post at you, Levi. See, Levi’s one of the cast members in this top-secret film shoot that 9art photography & I are producing. Poor guy drew the short straw and had to wake before dawn with me to do a sunrise shoot. As bribery, I offered to make…
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Manly VS. Manful
Manliness is an aesthetic. Manfulness is the beauty and truth behind that aesthetic. Manliness, as an aesthetic, can be used for good or bad. It could be a true aesthetic or a false aesthetic. Manfulness, however, is always a form for men to aspire towards. Manliness seeks to robe men in the garb, accents, and…
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Terms of War: Colonist
Make sure you know the rules of engagement before reading on… Anecdote from the Colonist: “They… have brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawk’s bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They do not bear arms and do not know them, for…