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Back to: Poor Clio; or, back to: Past history
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9.28.2000/18:55 |
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School whacks sweet snax. |
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| 9.28.2000/18:50 |
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| Lots of recipes
for Korean cooking. |
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9.28.2000/18:10 |
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Nice site
about the artist Edward Hopper. |
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9.28.2000/18:05 |
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Palindromes. |
| 9.27.2000/00:45 |
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Since getting back from my first-ever visit to
Tuscon, AZ, I've been keeping a special eye on Tuscon-based weblog Breaching the Web,
especially as blogger Kristie Taylor has been following a story I heard in the radio news quite a bit while I was there
over the weekend.
Tuscon's city council, noting that Boy Scouts now discriminate against gays, voted to withhold $29,000 that was passed along
from the city to the scouts through United Way. According Taylor's site, the city is now considering withholding the
$1.5 million it gives United Way if United Way keeps the scouts on its roster.
Thanks to Kristie for keeping us up to date on that interesting story and providing some links. |
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9.27.2000/00:40 |
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Would you be interested to
know more about a book titled Death to All Cheerleaders? |
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9.27.2000/00:35 |
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Sites That Are What Their URLs Say
They Are Dept.: catholicthings.com. |
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| 9.26.2000/08:15 |
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| Save the coonhounds. |
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9.26.2000/08:05 |
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Interesting take
on a possible direction of reality TV. |
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9.25.2000/09:45 |
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The dry river bed of the Santa Cruz River as
it winds its way through Tuscon. |
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9.25.2000/09:35 |
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Here's a slice
of a whimsical piece of statuary outside a science building at the University of Arizona,
called 25 scientists. Note the cactus motif. |
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9.25.2000/09:25 |
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I'm in Tuscon
for a couple of days, where it is more desert-like that I had guessed that it would be.
There aren't many lawns as the rest of us think of lawns. There are some nice rock
and cactus gardens.
I took a walk around the University of Arizona campus, and where the once and future cental mall of the campus
might have otherwise provided a pleasant walk, I found the construction site of what
will be known as the Integrated Learning Center.
This collection of classrooms, office space and other facilities will tie in several buidings below
ground and return the mall, at least sort of, to its earlier state. I'll be curious
some day to come back and see this completed. |
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9.25.2000/09:15 |
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Monkeys in the news. |
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9.25.2000/09:05 |
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Interesting story in the Post
about those what's-the-best-college rankings. |
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9.24.2000/09:25 |
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Fall colors. |
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9.24.2000/09:20 |
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Looks like
LSU couldn't beat the dogmeat patsies
recruited to soften up the schedule this week between SEC battles. One more lunch
Jackie Lyle owes me. |
| 9.24.2000/09:15 |
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| NPR wag Michael Feldman
termed this attempt at diversity-by-editing at the University of Wisconsin as "affirmative photography." |
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9.22.2000/07:10 |
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Made your Christmas gift list yet? |
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9.22.2000/07:05 |
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Save the orchids. |
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9.2.2000/07:00 |
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Separatist fervor in Quebec. |
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9.22.2000/06:55 |
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They don't have it,
don't need it, don't want it, and don't miss it. |
| 9.21.2000/14:05 |
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| Fight! |
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9.21.2000/06:45 |
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"Few individuals have been more misrepresented and slandered than Madame Blavatsky." |
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| This site sez: "Girls...Now is the time..." |
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9.21.2000/06:30 |
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The next big tourist destination? |
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9.21.2000/06:20 |
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I will be 49 next week, and have
been thinking about the fact in my college and high school years, I studied events of the past that had
happened 25, 30, 40 years ago: the Depression, Pearl Harbor, World War II.
Now I can remember events of the past 25, 30, 40 years ago. Men into space. JFK (his assassination was the
galvanizing moment of history for my generation in the way Pearl Harbor was for my parents'). Vietnam, and the
war protest. The "revolution" of the sixties. Nixon and Watergate.
And it is against this backdrop that I ponder things nearer to today: the Gulf War. The dissipaton of Y2K anxieties
into a cascading series of wonderful celebrations.
But what bothers me is this: What happened in the 1980s? |
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9.20.2000/07:20 |
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Over at Useless Knowledge,
today's quote of the day comes from comic Steven Wright:
"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." |
