I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
At first glance, the story”s point seems obvious enough. My friend had the will to succeed, the drive to keep going in the face of discouragement and rejection. He had, too, a perception of himself as a writer that refused to fade. In addition, he had a single-mindedness of purpose that enabled him to take chances. Quitting his job on the basis of a few day”s production was probably ill-advised, and I certainly would not recommend it to anyone in a similar situation, but perhaps it was essential for him. p. 77
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
Americans have great difficulty finding parts of our country, let alone being able to find foreign nations with strange and uncertain names. The world needs more people like George Bailey (@ 6:25) dedicated to keeping the National Geographic Society and its ubiquitous yellow spinned magazines thriving.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
It pains me to believe that the people of Haiti are still suffering because once they took their fates in their own hands. And yet, here is Pat Robertson illustrating that the memory of ignorant whites is long. If there is a devil involved here, I would say it has a white skin. How did such a man as this become the voice of evangelism, evangelism that once was on the side of freedom for all? I wonder how Mr. Robertson would react to being whipped in chains.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
I have never been able to shake the perception of myself as a writer. It has kept me chained to this bloody desk for more years than I care to number, and it has made it impossible for me seriously to entertain the idea of doing anything else for long. p. 75
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
As a fledgling nation, the United States adopted a paternal attitude toward other nations in its sphere of influence and sent the message to European nations that their interference was not welcome. Out of remembrance of our own struggle against tyranny, we sought to help others succeed as well.
Newsweek’s Isaac Stone Fish sees something similar going on with China and its own cadre of rogue states, including Myanmar.
China is sometimes cast in the West as a selfish and intransigent child. Looking out for its own interests, this line of reasoning goes, it won’t push Khartoum to curb attacks in Darfur, it won’t deploy carrots or sticks to bring North Korea back to the Six-Party Talks, and it won’t scold the Burmese junta for crackdowns against monks. Just this week, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman reiterated her country’s commitment to distancing itself from the West’s attempts to thwart Iran’s quest for a nuclear bomb: “We don’t believe sanctions could fundamentally solve the problem.” China’s investments and weapon sales to Iran made this seem largely about lust for Iran”s oil. But the truth is that in Iran, as in all of those other places, China’s behavior is about more than just money. It actually has a soft spot for maverick nations that buck the international system, oppress their people, and threaten regional stability. In the end, China needs rogues.
Can we send Sarah Palin to China? Please?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there’ll be a record. — Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
Warning: never trust an Internet quote without checking something other than Google. I’m willing to bet that less than 10 percent of these are real or accurate.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
And some of us go on writing. p. 75
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
Back in December I wrote about Aung San Suu Kyi’s meeting with the more senior (literally) members of the National League for Democracy’s leadership to explore how new, more vigorous, blood might be brought into the organization before this fall’s elections. Now, nine new members have been added.
From Earth Times:
Myanmar’s National League for Democracy opposition party on Thursday announced an expansion of its central executive committee, weeks after Aung San Suu Kyi called for reforms. The NLD has added nine new members to the existing 11-man central executive committee, which has led the party for two decades and includes several octogenarians.
The new party executives are Than Nyein, Ohn Kyaing, Win Myint, Tun Tun Hein, Win Naing, Nyan Win, Han Tha Myint, Thein Nyunt and May Win Myint, a relatively younger lot of elected members of parliament.
Political observers said the move was a transitional step paving the way for the older NLD leaders to resign.
Now it is up to these nine to make a difference.
Dear Jeff,
I’m dashing off this quick note to you to urge you to be what we Americans are known for–generous–not for me, but for Haiti.
According to UPI, the death toll from Haiti’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake Tuesday is at least 100,000 and could be several times that, according to Haitian officials in Port-au-Prince, a city of 2 million which is virtually flattened.
Haiti, part of an island and reachable only by plane or boat, is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. People are injured and thirsty with little available potable water. The quake’s survivors are at great risk.
A good place to give is Doctors Without Borders. (DWB is on the ground in Haiti now.) You can also give to Oxfam America and The Jewish Federations of North America. Huffington Post has a broad list of other organizations as well.Thanks for caring,
Jennifer Brunner
And people wonder why Lee Fisher doesn’t want to be seen on the same stage as Brunner.
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