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This morning, I was listening to Dan O’Brien’s talk at OSCon about evil.. Highly recommended listening, and *very* funny. One of the things he talked about was the quote by Mohandas Ghandi (o...

https://drbacchus.com/wah-wah-i-didnt-think-of-it-first/

I need a cup of coffee I’ll feel better Name that quote. And no fair using the internet. Very hard getting up this morning, and I’m not sure why. I wasn’t up terribly late, but I really had...

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I’m working hard to pay the rent And support my government … You can laugh but it’s no joke And you can’t get blood from a stone Hooters- Nervous Night: Can’t get blood from a stone

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Last night I watched Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I got two boxes of DVDs for Christmas – one of old westerns, and the other of old “Science Fiction” movies, although at least half of...

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When the sun goes down and it’s getting late You say it’s time for bed She just takes her time Acting like she never heard a word you said Little baby wanna hold you tight She don’t ever wa...

https://drbacchus.com/daddys-girl/

… and finally … This one is actually related to the song. I don’t know what high school music teachers usually use as their songs to teach with. Mine used Beatles songs. And, as very few of...

https://drbacchus.com/dont-make-it-bad/

… continued Who’s come to slay the dragon? Come to watch him fall? Making arrows out of pointed words Giant killers at the call? Too much fuss and bother Too much contradiction and confusion ...

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Certain songs take me very powerfully to times in the past, and I’ve had opportunity to experience this a number of times in the last few weeks. Usually, the song itself has nothing whatever to...

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As I may have mentioned, my “alarm clock” is a Perl script which chooses one of my digitized CDs, in either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, and plays it to wake me up. This morning’s wake-up music was v...

https://drbacchus.com/brother-dont-you-walk-away/

Tradition is democracy extended through time. Tradition means giving the vote to that most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. Tradition is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to subm...

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