because of the way the government works

The Washington Post reported on Mitt Romney’s new “Day 1″ ad, adding that Romney put out a more detailed Day 1 plan (or stuff he intends to do immediately) in April, and they said this:

He said he would demand that Congress cut corporate income taxes. and slash $20 billion from the budget, allow states to opt out of parts of the health-care law, rewrite the way all federal regulations are issued and call out China for cheating on international trade. But his ambitious agenda will likely be hard to achieve because of the way the government works.

hahahaha. I like politics.

from To a Commencement of Scoundrels by Samuel Hazo

My boys, they lied to you.
The world by definition stinks
of Cain, no matter what
your teachers told you. Heroes
and the fools of God may rise
like accidental green
on gray saharas, but the sand
stays smotheringly near.

I found this in a notebook somewhere. I remember this being very true.

I am 3, and the physics of vertical crib bars perplexes me

When I pack I just end up reading stuff I’ve written down

with the birth of a son a man has repaid his debt to the ancestors and has enables his forefathers to attain the world of heaven

from An Introduction to Hinduism by Gavin Flood

hostile hostage host etymology fun times

Whoa. Whoa. Hostile : Hostage : Host??

The sinister, political/terrorism sense of hostage, says the <a href=”etymonline.com”>online etymology dictionary</a> [angel noises] comes from around 1970, interestingly. Ok. I can get behind that. Before it was apparently more like “guest.”

Hostile, though – is from latin hostis, “enemy”, also related to the proto-indo-european root ghosti-, meaning “strange”. Hosti, in latin, meaning “host,” is related to (and just one letter away from) hostis, meaning “enemy.”

So you have this enemy=>stranger=>guest=>host connection, which as I overthink it outlines the risks and vulnerability involved in the host-guest relationship, as well as the hostility/hospitality thing w/r/t strangers and relationships with them. and, I guess, to get all kantian, relationships with everyone.

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Yeah find me that will you

Obviously, there is a middle ground between these two perspectives, one that holds that there is an optimal level of emotional regulation—somewhere between total strangulation and completely unfettered expression.

Gross, J. J., & Levenson, R. W. (1997). Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 95-103.

Barackness Monster

1) It’s the 21st century
2) AAAAAAH Stafford loan interest rates are going up?????