Dating was invented within the last 200 years. Prior to that time, marriage always involved much more input from the parents, and "trial relationships" leading up to marriage (what we now call "dating") were not conducted at all.
Heh... I got a new pickup line "Hey baby, you wanna go out on a trial relationship with me?" ::sigh:: Why don't people talk like that anymore? Am I the only one who longs for the good old days when we had "trial relationships", much like today's free 30 day trials for house hold applainces, and weight loss pills? And am I mistaken, or does "much more input from the parents" sound suspiciously similiar to "Men using daughters as marry-away currency to strengthen their own business relations?" Anyhow, there's more:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
I'm still writing the code that will make this new link library the greatest contribution to mankind -- ever. Or perhaps that is overstating the significance of it.... Anyhow, what I've done is written some simple PHP scripts to fetch my del.icio.us RSS feeds, and convert them into collections of links that display on this blog automatically. Once the code is in place, the page will forever update along with your del.icio.us bookmarks.
Anyhow, once I can figure out how to display descriptions and the date the links were posted, I'll be sure to share my script with the world. Right now, however, I'm still making sure that I haven't done something incredibily stupid. Regardless, check it out; it will continue to grow as I add more and more bookmarks.
"I abhor the law and the parasites that practice it. They are the handmaidens of the social and ideological repression imposed on us by those in unelected or fraudulently elected power elites, pimps for the rich and powerful." - Dave Pollard  Â
p.s. I recommend reading the essay from which that quote was extracted: Resolving Conflict
Robert Love writes a great essay in Columbia Journalism Review: A Technical Guide for Editing Gonzo. In it, he reflects upoin the horrors and moments of clarity that arise when fact checking Hunter S. Thompson.
Independent Woman's Forum instructs: "It is time for every honest feminist worth her salt to stand up for Priscilla Owen." Gee, I didn't know that those who opposed Owens judicial nomination were being dishonest. Allow me to be the first to thank the Republican hacks running the "Independent Woman's Forum" for alerting me that 40 national groups ranging from planned parenthood, to Friends of the Earth, to the United Autoworkers are being dishonest in their opposition of her. After all, as we can see from Owen's sparking record, ONE court case involving a minor bypassing parental notification for an abortion isn't cause to oppose her.
Let’s begin with Justice Owen’s long history of supporting the rights of Woman. In one case, Read v. Scott Fetzer Co, the vacuum company Kirby did not think that it should require its employees to undergo background checks. Unfortunately, as a result it hired Mickey Carter, who had been fired from numerous jobs for sexual harassment, and had been arrested for indecency in front of a child. On one of his door-to-door vacuum-selling visits, Carter raped a woman named D.K.R. As a result, she and her family sued Kirby for negligence. The Texas Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote, ruled that Kirby was negligent, and paid D.K.R’s family $160,000 dollars. Of course, Owen dissented. She did not think that Kirby should be held liable for a rape that resulted from them sending a convicted sex offender to someone’s home. Owens, stands up for woman, after all. I think all honest feminists would agree that the woman in question “was asking for it†when she opened the door for a Kirby salesman. Â
Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review posted a good summery of BlogNashville. I wanted to highlight a couple of the good ideas he mentioned
Full-time local TV station bloggers.
The first of which is Brittney Gilbert who writes the blog Nashville Is Talking for WKRN-TV Channel 2. There are many people who work in TV who blog, but apparently she's the first to actually receive a check for sitting at a computer and blogging.
"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone
said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire,
but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.' " - George Carlin
