I was skimming through the New York times today and I stumbled upon this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/world/middleeast/18maliki.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I was thoroughly offended by the lead, which states that Iraq has a, “notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy”, in comparison to, “Western standards”. Now that might be true through the eyes of the Western Standard. Not if you know anything about [...]
Sick for two days, tonnes of school work, waking up late because I cough until like 2 to 3 in the morning. I feel as if I’ve done 100 push ups a day when I wake up after a night of coughing fits. So I decided I would try and go skateboard, you know sweat [...]
I struggle with this question a lot. Why would anyone subject themselves to the mental stress of dedicating important brain cells to put a positive spin on things? I’ll tell you why, because your brain is like a dog. When you get a cute little puppy who has no care in the world other than [...]
Ok I’ve been having crazy writers block for a while but finally something has incited something other than somber bitterness and sadness in me. This picture… (disclaimer, this photo was edited to protect the innocent.)
Now let me put it into perspective. My sister’s friends and her went out for a night on the town to [...]
Sage advice harvested from hours of watching film, given to a loved one:
I love you dearly Reid, but you need to start destroying the rational. In a business sense it will aid you in looking forward
A reflection on a teen hood Acropolis of humor and gasps of air in between it :
These guys tried to [...]
“Wow, I didn’t know that there were those many types of salsa”
” Yeah! I couldn’t believe it myself when i started working at senior Oregano’s, you can make salsa out of anything!”
” Yeah…”
I sighed heavily looking for something else to ask the girl standing next to me, but I was drawing a blank. Is this [...]
Information is defined as knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data. Age is defined as a generation or a series of generations. It is too bad that there is no definition for a terrible way to open a speech/term paper/statement/eulogy. I think this is a perfect opportunity to create a new word. [...]
My body aches, the sun is way too loud, and the ghost of my grandfather snoozed my alarm clock this morning in celebration of his birthday. I woke up around 11:30 scrambling to get to work dialogging with my grandfather about how frustrated I was that he decided it would be a good idea for [...]
Waking up in the morning, snoozing my alarm about 4 to 5 times, getting up, getting into the bathroom, taking a shower, thinking about how ridiculous the hair on my head looks after not cutting it for 6 months, hating the fact that I have no ability to cut my own hair and i cannot [...]