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Schmooze and Partake
Regarding #19: I believe we may have met a few times, once in the presence of Augie Gallego before he was the community college district chancellor. I've been using a2zresource as a handle for ages, since the late 1990s when I was tutoring in courses I'd never taken myself (it was a miracle that all of my organic chemistry clients passed with at least a B). It was the email address from where I'd send my stuff to the City Times back then. About the only place I haven't used a2zresource is in writing and editing mathematical logic articles at wikipedia, where I use another old handle that dates back to my netrek days at USD's math/computer science department. For password security, that's enough I'll say about that... I'll pass on the Bible study. When God wants you to hear what I have to say, you'll find me. On the other hand, I'd be happy to school you on Mendleson's Introduction to Mathematical Logic without charging you what a private university charged me... but that might be a big oops because God resides in the multi-dimensional land of large numbers, a place few puny humans can even imagine without going totally bonkers. This may be why the true Bible-thumpers insist that Jesus must be the intermediary... although I allow that the one way is not necessarily the only way... the only way to explain THAT is to say it's kind of a left-handed tantric thing, and I doubt any self-respecting church is going to allow me to stay in the pews if I open my mouth to speak about it.— September 1, 2008 10:48 p.m.
Booty
... and I earlier posted elsewhere on the Internet the new definition of "to be carolyned" as a verb where the subject of the verb is the population of taxpayer, voters, and other citizens having to pay for both sides of a lawsuit to recover unethical off-budget bonuses paid out during a city wage freeze...— September 1, 2008 9:56 p.m.
Meet Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.
“Theater matters because it’s the only place where one can find hope. Films are manufactured for us, but in the theater, the actors and the audience are getting together to manufacture a narrative, and to me, that’s where hope resides.” — Moises Kaufman, playwright, 33 Variations, The Laramie Project, etc. ---- This appears to be the same rationale that drives video game sales. As for social commitment, there has to be something said for turning the audience into actors without scripts. Potentially, there's a lot of authenticity there... or maybe just bad acting? "The play is the thing..." Union wage scales just conjure up images of Model Ts rolling off the assembly line... Instead of union wage scales in theater, why not pay actors and other theater workers a percentage of the gate? Union wage scales seem to make sense when the play is just another freedom of speech forum, where the general public has mostly exercised its freedom not to show up. A play is a work of art, but there are reasons why the New York Times gushes over a Broadway attendance record of 11.5 million while the motion picture industry moans that 1.4 billion tickets sold are merely a symptom of flat sales.— September 1, 2008 1:58 p.m.
Schmooze and Partake
Regarding #17: I thought Reality TV was show business for the not-so-beautiful, as well as the minor deity of choice for conspicuous consumers two decades or more away from AARP membership...— September 1, 2008 1:13 p.m.
Local Newsweek Correspondent Pleads to Chargers: "Don't Bolt!"
Given the nature of politics in this town, I can only imagine the players at City Hall backing up any public funds to keep the Chargers in town only if the current team owners set up some sort of limited liability thing on the side as a part owner of the team, then hand out "options" to politicians on the City Council, some developer friends, and a few other insiders. The only other thing this needs to work is to call the whole thing a "Mosquito Abatement Agency" or something similar, so it can aggressively and regressively tax parcel owners into the next millennium for a share of Chargers LTD LLC... On the other hand, there may only be public money used to keep the Chargers in town if SEDC gets involved... most likely on an elevated deck constructed above Mount Hope Cemetery. Gee... I hope I just haven't handed Carolyn Smith the one winner of an idea that will certainly get her elected Mayor of Enron by the Sea...— September 1, 2008 12:54 p.m.
Schmooze and Partake
Apparently, any of my comments that gave the illusion of discernment and intelligence were just futile attempts to mask my obvious stupidity... at least it was obvious to All-Discerning Fred. The problem with continuously trying to determine when one means what one says is that others are never sure one says what one means. In any case, I do believe that I may have had some dealings with a Mr. Fred Williams in a previous life, where this Fred Williams was a representative on a local California legislative body. I couldn't figure out then when that person was talking straight or not, either... not a good trait for a people's representative to have when aspiring to higher office at the state level.— September 1, 2008 11:36 a.m.
Schmooze and Partake
Stupid is as stupid does. I did not realize Mr. William's claim that Proposition 8 would not pass on election day was satirical. I guess he's entitled to express his admiration for the ballot initiative in his own special way...— September 1, 2008 10:52 a.m.
Schmooze and Partake
I am amused by the self-proclaimed atheist urging people to pray! This does make some sort of sense in the context of the recent Pew poll that showed as many as 1 out of 5 atheists also professed believing in God or some other deity. One wonders what category the self-proclaimed reverend-without-religious-belief fits into... http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/23/new-pew-sur… As for Prop. 8, I still think there's enough corporate political contributions yet to be made for or against that it's too early to tell if it'll pass or fail. It's all a matter of advertising, and after studying the public reaction to the recent problems-getting-married commercials, the opposition either needs to spend a whole lot more or hopes a lot of us simply won't bother to vote.— September 1, 2008 9:48 a.m.
THE BAD ONES DIE
"Love your neighbor" is why so many of us were eager to go subprime just to live with an HOA and its police politics. Local governments are just so fond of HOAs for relieving those local governments of the cost of code enforcement... If there was an HOA here in old Encanto, then maybe the nabes wouldn't be burning the leftover toxic trash in their yard at night that their junk-hauling business is stuck with as undisposible hazardous material.— September 1, 2008 9:28 a.m.
Booty
The term "booty" may also refer to the dividend prize money Sempra Energy investors might be wishing for whenever SDG&E submits a rate increase request to the CPUC... ... or it is the target of a swift kick owed to public officials who use off-budget bonuses to enrich themselves at the public's expense. Really. Politicians feeding at the public trough one step ahead of the law is booty. Us putting up with it is ghetto booty.— September 1, 2008 9:19 a.m.