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December 10 2004. |
STOCK BOY.
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Well, lookie here. Seems that I can pick stocks. CMGI, Yahoo, and
recently acquired Sirius have all done pretty well for me lately. I've actually
made some money. Well, for now...
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MOUNT CARMÉL.
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BLUNT IRONY.
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From the That's Very Very Odd Department: I
woke up this morning singing my old high school fight song.
Fight OOOOON for Mount Car-MEL!
Don't ask me why. It's frickin'
weird. I haven't sung that damn thing since...well...never.
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On
August 6th, 1945 a B29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay
dropped the first atomic bomb used in combat over the city of Hiroshima,
Japan. According to conservative estimates, 140,000 people died as a
result of that bombing.
Last Saturday, I stood underneath the Enola Gay at the
Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Beth's company's Christmas
party. And as I stood there in my suit and tie and drank free wine and
munched on bruschetta
with white truffle oil and olive paste, I couldn't help but to stare up
at the lower bay doors of the plane suspended above me.
It just wasn't right.
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DEAD BEAR.
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Mount
Carmél, Fuck Stick, CMGI, Yahoo, Sirius, The Sweeper, Dead Bear, Blunt
Irony, and the Enola Gay. |
Wow. Jesus, this is hella boring
(maybe the server being down part of the day was a hint). Truly,
crappiness at its finest. Sorry.
Then again, I'm not really that concerned (translation: go blow a dead bear
'cause I don't really care).
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FUCK STICK.
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THE SWEEPER.
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I
know I give Kenny the Rat Bastard a lot of shit and I know I've
mentioned this before, but Kenny always comes through in the clutch:
Yesterday, he referred four clients to me. Four. That's as many clients
as I currently have. You're the man, Kenny.
Thanks,
Fuck Stick (he likes that nickname).
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You wanna know what I just figured out? If I take one of my new tennis
shoes and use it like one of those carpet sweeper thingies, I can pick
up all of the dog hair off the carpet very easily! No muss, no fuss!
Holy balls. I need a hobby.
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THE ENOLA GAY.
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We are not, however, opposed to exhibiting the Enola Gay. Much to the contrary, we welcome any exhibition that will spur an honest and balanced discussion of the atomic bombings of 1945 and of current U.S. nuclear policy. Our greatest concern is that the disturbing issues raised by the atomic bombings in 1945 will not be addressed in
this exhibit and that President Truman's use of atomic weapons will legitimize the Bush administration's current effort to lower the threshold for future use of nuclear weapons. Whatever the National Air and Space Museum's conscious intention, any effort to treat the atomic bombings of 1945 in a celebratory fashion or to display the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb solely as a "magnificent technological achievement" can only dishonor the museum and the nation and serve the purposes of those who seek to normalize nuclear weapons and facilitate their future use.
--Committee for a National Discussion of
Nuclear History and Current Policy
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