http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/02/20/i-refuse-to-use-the-word-b-g-from-now-on/ A graduate student in mathematics and a modern languages major take on politics and culture with the following aspirational motto: ‘Deregulate your mind.’ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:42:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/02/20/i-refuse-to-use-the-word-b-g-from-now-on/#comment-2292 Curt Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:35:01 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/02/20/i-refuse-to-use-the-word-b-g-from-now-on/#comment-2292 <p>Right, that's why I think the guy was sort of stupidly imagining that everybody with a website would be trying to run a one-man newspaper. If that were the case, I would indeed be quite harried. I'd also do a lousy job at it and not get anything else done. I'd look at it as a kind of degradation too.</p> Right, that’s why I think the guy was sort of stupidly imagining that everybody with a website would be trying to run a one-man newspaper. If that were the case, I would indeed be quite harried. I’d also do a lousy job at it and not get anything else done. I’d look at it as a kind of degradation too.

]]> http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/02/20/i-refuse-to-use-the-word-b-g-from-now-on/#comment-2291 Dave Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:52:13 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/02/20/i-refuse-to-use-the-word-b-g-from-now-on/#comment-2291 <p>Actually it is the newspaper columnist, not the blo—er , who treat each “news” event as manna from heaven. Otherwise why do boilerplate editorials, featuring each writer’s political prejudices, appear as predictably as maggots on a dead rat a few days after each news story breaks? You almost don’t have to read them to know what they will say. In fact if I had time I could write a simple algorithm, a sort of editorial generator, where you could put in phrases such as ,( Cheney shoots lawyer, or Bush sells Port to Arabs) for each newspaper or magazine writer. One click of the computer and out comes a complete editorial containing all the usual buzzwords</p> Actually it is the newspaper columnist, not the blo—er , who treat each “news” event as manna from heaven. Otherwise why do boilerplate editorials, featuring each writer’s political prejudices, appear as predictably as maggots on a dead rat a few days after each news story breaks? You almost don’t have to read them to know what they will say. In fact if I had time I could write a simple algorithm, a sort of editorial generator, where you could put in phrases such as ,( Cheney shoots lawyer, or Bush sells Port to Arabs) for each newspaper or magazine writer. One click of the computer and out comes a complete editorial containing all the usual buzzwords

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