Opaque Lucidity
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description: Write about it.
language: en-us
date: 2004-04-01T14:13:00-05:00
generator agent: http://www.movabletype.org/
items: Lone Weekend
items: Air America
items: The Death of the Debate
items: Countdown to the Big D
items: Eternal Sunshine
items: Ghost Town
items: A Match Made In...
items: And Five Years Later...
items: Paper and Fire
items: An Open Letter to Jimmy Carter
items: The Snowboard King
items: The Man Who Knew Too Much
items: Tense
items: Porsche
items: The Indian Connection

Lone Weekend
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description: I leave for Dallas in a little over 24 hours. I'm more excited about this trip than I have been about many of my previous journeys to Texas because the guys I am visiting really seem to be excited by...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-04-01T14:13:00-05:00

Air America
type: item
description: I keep on breaking my own rule about not posting entire articles here, but this one is, well, note-worthy (from the NY Times {see if you can catch Ms. Garofalo's quote on the air and then her quote about liberals...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-31T14:30:06-05:00

The Death of the Debate
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description: I "unsubscribed" myself from an ongoing e-mail thread last night. It was the usual left\right kind of thing, but I found myself making some pretty personal attacks after my main antagonist remarked that I reminded her of her 8-year old...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-30T13:23:39-05:00

Countdown to the Big D
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description: I'm burning music CDs as I write this. You might not think this is a big deal, and normally you'd be right. But this music is different, for it will be packed away in my suitcase and taken to Dallas...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-29T18:25:17-05:00

Eternal Sunshine
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description: Kelli and I went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. I had been looking forward to seeing the film because the concept seemed original. However, to quote Kelli, it made a better concept than it did...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-28T08:36:42-05:00

Ghost Town
type: item
description: I ran across this interesting site linked at slashdot. It's the personal website of a Russian or Ukrainian (she does not specify) woman who is an avid cyclist. The entire site is a photographic journal of her trip through the...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-27T09:29:54-05:00

A Match Made In...
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description: Possible captions: "Mommy, why did you dress us alike?" or "Damn you've got good hair, John!" or "Yeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhoooohhhhh!!!!!!!!" or "How can we screw 'em today?"...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-25T13:49:54-05:00

And Five Years Later...
type: item
description: Today in 1999, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia began. It would last nearly 90 days. I bring this up because, soon after the bombing stop, NATO sent peace-keeping troops to the area. Bill Clinton said that the American component...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-24T10:54:40-05:00

Paper and Fire
type: item
description: My dad is fond of saying that time goes by no matter what you do. It's something that I'm pretty fond of saying myself now, but it's not something that I take to heart very often. My life is full...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-23T07:30:24-05:00

An Open Letter to Jimmy Carter
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description: Mr. President, I hope this letter finds you well. You have been very active in your criticism of the Bush administration and its handling of the war on terror and, more specifically, the war in Iraq. Your latest comments also...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-22T15:01:22-05:00

The Snowboard King
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description: John Kerry is at it again, this time referring to a Secret Service agent as a "son of a bitch". Well, well, Senator, let's see here: U.S. Senator publicly profanes someone sworn to defend him PERSONALLY.....I think that moves you...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-19T18:51:53-05:00

The Man Who Knew Too Much
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description: When I was a Senior in high school, I found out something about an ex-girlfriend that really threw me for a loop. What made things worse was the fact that I had dug and dug and dug for the information...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-19T08:40:19-05:00

Tense
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description: I've been a little grumpy lately and, until this morning, I had no idea why. I have been working days for a month now; that's plenty of time to get used to the idea of getting up at 5:30AM. But...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-18T07:00:33-05:00

Porsche
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description: The first Porsche was shown off at the Geneva International Auto Show today in 1949. Ferdinand Porsche, the man behind the name, had served two years in prison after the Second World War for helping the German war machine (he...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-17T15:08:30-05:00

The Indian Connection
type: item
description: The company I work for exported about a dozen jobs to India in 2002. I knew about it soon after it happened because the department I work in worked closely with some of the people involved. The jobs were considered...
creator: Matthew
date: 2004-03-17T07:16:36-05:00