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I'd like ta ask Mr. Mime Primister if Mr. Martini is a poop.
Posted Jan 28, 2003
I am now resolved to watch British Parliament every Sunday night on C-SPAN. It is a beautiful spectacle, and I think all politics should work this way. It's so entertaining to watch because it's carried out like a town hall meeting, but in reality, this is an entire nation's lawmaking process.
US Congress is so stiff in comparison. There's no head-to-head debate between the president and the speaker of the house. There's no applause or obnoxious "here here"'s. No one is allowed to make wisecracks at fellow lawmakers. There's generally no laughing out loud at the stupidity of other congressmen. Typically, the House of Commons seems comparable to Congress with a two-drink minimum.
Tony Blair is fun to watch. Sometimes, when he has a strong opinion on an issue, he really lets them have it. But there are other times when you sense that he has no idea what a member of parliament has just asked him, and he goes into this whole babbling fountain of choice diplomatic diction and builds to, for lack of a better term, a conclusion. Still, Blair is a political demigod of eloquence in comparison to George Bush.
Bush would not have an easy time in British Parliament. There's no way he could handle the unrehearsed accusations, and I don't think he would pick up on most of the clever insults aimed his way. Just watch the State of the Union address. The man pauses after words of four syllables, either in pride or disorientation. And the congress is way too sympethetic. They clap at everything they agree with for perpetuity, and they never clatter when he makes an outlandish comment.
Last year, he established the Axis of Evil. Some people thought that was too vague. Don't be surprised if this year he categorizes people into two groups: dudes I doesn't like, and dudes I does.
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Triannual Journal Update
Posted Jan 26, 2003
Now a little about myself. My name is Ryan. I think my parents thought Ryan was a cool, original name when they thought it up, but just like anything that's cool and original, it was overexploited and now everyone in the US is named either Ryan or Matt. Not that I don't like my name. It'll do.
I live in Indiana. The Hoosier state. Don't ask me the origin of the word Hoosier, because, quite honetly, no one in Indiana really knows for sure. More specifically, I live in Valparaiso, Indiana. Valpo for short. Valparaiso, in spanish, translates to "Vale of Paradise." The horrible truth is that Valparaiso, Indiana, is nothing more than a small-farm-town-turned-suburb-of-Chicago that celebrates the miracle of popcorn in a yearly one-day festival. Do you know what makes popcorn pop? There's water contained within the kernel, and when it heats up, it expands, and pops the shell.
I'm at the age where everyone wants me to go to college and be successful. Everyone's worried about me being unhappy with my life except for me. They tell me, think outside the box. Take the road less traveled. Don't go with the crowd. But for the love of God, go to college and get a decent job.
My dad worries sometimes. He doesn't ever see me getting a job. I tell him I'm writing the great American novel, and that he has nothing to worry about. You can't reason with the wry.
People want me to make a difference in the world. I told my counselor I wanted to be a teacher. He said it would be wise to pick a back up plan. Essentially, a back up plan to making a difference.
Really, I want to be a rock star.
Really, I'm just a whiny teenager that thinks he knows everything about the universe but really has no clue.
Any questions so far?
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A thought to ponder upon...
Posted Nov 26, 2000
How come Generation "Y" is so adverse? Are teens just trying too hard to stand out? Maybe we should send two groups of teens to two different places; one to a huge mansion in California, and the other group to a shack in Rwanda. The mansion group can drink wine, and the shack group can drink their own urine. And the mansion group can sleep on beds, as the shack group is forced to sleep on top of each other on a parasite-infested pile of crap. By looking at the two groups, an obvious question is arroused: Which group would be the first to complain about the complimentary caviar in the main kitchen?
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A thought to ponder upon...
Posted Nov 26, 2000
How come Generation "Y" is so adverse? Are teens just trying too hard to stand out? Maybe we should send two groups of teens to two different places; one to a huge mansion in California, and the other group to a shack in Rwanda. The mansion group can drink wine, and the shack group can drink their own urine. And the mansion group can sleep on beds, as the shack group is forced to sleep on top of each other on a parasite-infested pile of crap. By looking at the two groups, an obvious question is arroused: Which group would be the first to complain about the complimentary caviar in the main kitchen?
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A thought to ponder upon...
Posted Nov 26, 2000
How come Generation "Y" is so adverse? Are teens just trying too hard to stand out? Maybe we should send two groups of teens to two different places; one to a huge mansion in California, and the other group to a shack in Rwanda. The mansion group can drink wine, and the shack group can drink their own urine. And the mansion group can sleep on beds, as the shack group is forced to sleep on top of each other on a parasite-infested pile of crap. By looking at the two groups, an obvious question is arroused: Which group would be the first to complain about the complimentary caviar in the main kitchen?
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