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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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Happy Thanksgiving
Written by Zach in News

I can’t help but think that this animal was created to be beheaded.  I mean, look at its head.

It’s bright red, as if to say, “remove!”  The turkey head, seems to be to be Nature’s own Highlight’s-magazine-one-of-these-things-does-not-belong game.

Traditionally, the President of the United States pardons a turkey at thanksgiving.  These turkeys used to go to the suspiciously named Frying Pan Park.  But for the past 3 years, they’ve gone to live at Disneyland.  Not joking.  I miss the days of Eisenhower.  When somebody sent him a turkey, he ate it. …

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Friday, November 21, 2008
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Dante’s Beatrice
Written by Zach in News


Cory’s Beatrice

 

 

When Dante was nine years old, he fell in love with an eight-year-old girl. Her name was Beatrice, “conferrer of blessing,” and she became one of the most famous women in all of literature.  After their first encounter Dante writes that “Love held sovereign empire over my soul.”  Theodore Martin gives this touching account.

“… Dante, then scarce nine years old, who, with the other children of his own age that were in the house, engaged in the sports appropriate to their years.  …

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Athenians vs. Visigoths
Written by Zach in Art News

 

 

More than any time in my memory, it seems that Americans are interested not just in political or cultural labels, but rather in the mindsets that provoke them.  As the culture divide widens, more and more people try to justify why they find themselves on a particular side of the crack.  Perhaps the differences have always existed, but the discussions concern behavior less than they concern the precommitments that inform behavior.  Some see morality as a limited thing that minimizes harm (Don’t kill; Don’t steal).  Others see morality as a …

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Monday, November 17, 2008
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Cap’n Ahab
Written by Zach in News

 

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destorying but unconquering whale, to the last I grapple with thee: from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.  Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool!  And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale!  THUS, I give up the spear!”

Forgive my rather mediocre rendering of Ahab.  It certainly isn’t worthy of the beauty …

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Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Veteran’s Day Week Post 2
Written by Zach in News

“Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended…then go forward on foot!” General George S. Patton

I talked to my grandpa on the phone earlier this week. I asked him what he thought about General Patton, and he said that Patton was a great man and a terrific general. During WW2, my grandpa saw Patton in person in France when the General proposed a personal inspection of the men. I asked if he wore the ivory handled revolvers that people …

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