2005.12.29
Answering the Challenge
So finally, just days before the end of the month, I am answering the December Blogging Challenge. It’s not good to issue a challenge and not meet it yourself! The challenge is to pick out five posts you are particularly proud of. I started digging through the whole site and gave up. There is, honestly, just too much here!
Instead I limited myself to items in the past year. This itself has proven a bit difficult, so I’m going to divide them into two groups. One is original stuff and the other is “political” in nature. Without further delay, here are the two lists:
Original Posts:
1: Happy Holidays or What? covers my gripe with everyone prepending “happy” to almost every holiday and the expectations it breeds. What a bother.
2: Hairism in America talks about a not so new prejudice that has, to my knowledge, never been addressed.
3: The Problem with Religious Conservatives in America. Actually that should be religious zealots or christian fanatics. Essentially these evangelical idiots today would kill Jesus if he were standing before them today because he doesn’t really say what they want to hear. Sad but true.
4: Prepending “Christian” to Your Business Name. I had an epiphany that if you merely put the word “christian” in front of your business name you could rake in loads of extra money. You laugh, but it would work!
5: Diagnosis In: It’s Terminal!. A rather tongue in cheek visit to the doctor based on a real visit.
“Political” Posts:
1: Open Source Voting Machines. Here I rant and rave about the ludicrous state of electronic voting and defend the proposition that open source voting machines are our best bet for fair and incorruptible electronic voting system.
2: Devising Four Pillars for the Future. This is quite a long entry dealing with establishing a simple message for the masses from the liberal POV. It’s a job that has yet to be completed to satisfaction.
3: Once Upon a Time in America. This article is an introduction to a series I started and haven’t touched in a long time. They are all about values as they should be, not as people too often think they are today. I feel it’s time we took back our values instead of letting some politicians and religious wingnuts dictate what they should be to us.
4: Who’s Afraid of the Terrorists and Newspaper Statistics. Two articles that are very closely related concerning statistics and their usage in main stream media.
5: Who’s Afraid of the Dominionist? In this post I point out who is, for me, the scariest group in modern politics. Read it; I’m sure you’ll agree.
One of my favorite terms I (think I) created this year was people pearls for kidney stones. One of the best pictures I posted was this one from the VIZ Holiday Party. And that’s it for 2005. Here’s to looking forward to 2006!
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2 Responses to “Answering the Challenge”
- Uncle Roger says (December 29th, 2005 at 13:22:38 )
I’m in
I haven’t finished, but I’m working on this. (And I’ve added a new comment to #3 in the first list.)- dugh daren says (December 29th, 2005 at 23:01:41 )
I saw the comment…
And I added my own basically saying I like the song!For those of you interested (if there are any!) in reading everything from 2005 then click on this link and you’ll get everything. It’s slow to load, but might be worth it.
