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Did the Earth move for you? Global Orgasm Day now a yearly event

World Orgasm Day — Dec 22 Hope the big-O went well if you participated on this auspicious Winter Solstice date! Heh … militarism is even reflected in our language — … Continue reading

23 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

You are what you speak

Since I am mostly tri-lingual — English, Arabic and gibberish ;) –I am very interested in the psycho- and socio-linguistics of the notion that we view the world differently according … Continue reading

28 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Wordwatch: incestuous amplification

Incestuous amplification = Believing in your own spin/ propaganda Addendum: Apparently it originated in the DoD before making its way into more common political usage. Incestuous amplification = “A condition … Continue reading

24 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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