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Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65 - Yahoo! News

tis the season

for octoberfest!!! this is my first sam adams octoberfest of the season. it is tasty but still young. of course all varieties of this delicious seasonal brew are not quite as good without the season itself. that is one of about three drawbacks of living in texas. the pros still outweigh the cons.

RNC

i tried to be open minded tonight and watch a little of the red-staters big event. not to far into my viewing mike huckabee convinced me that my americanismfacation (see, i can make up words too) may be in question for a few of the following reasons.

i don't own any toby keith albums
my dad was an accountant, not a laborer*
i didn't bath in lava soap as a youth. we had lava soap but i didn't wash my balls with it.

he then proceeded to tell a story about some teacher who didn't give her students desks on the first day of class until they declared what tasks they needed to complete in order to earn a desk. at the end of the day after not one student had successfully guessed her answer, a group of veterans entered her classroom with the desks and placed them in neat rows. her day concluded with a statement resembling "you don't have to earn them because they did it for you". i have complete respect for veterans but...


perhaps if educators would avoid wasting instructional time with political propaganda we might not have "no child left behind" (which smells like damn big government to me). you are paid to stamp out ignorance and stupidity by way of thorough and intense instruction.

*he did labor hard working through college and served in the navy during the vietnam war. does this increase my americanismfication-worth?