…who have unfortunately found this website – your homework is to read up on the First World War, focusing on the suppression of internal dissent.
Now go back to your skateboards and your slap bracelets and your CapriSuns.
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Followers of the Greek god Bacchus hosted wild parties of excess. Sort of like this blog. Or something like that.
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Hey kids, don’t listen to him. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about anyway. He makes up like 80% of the stuff he says.
By: jadam on May 18, 2006
at 1:40 pm
Just discovered your blog Aaron – what’s with all the Indians posts? The Reds are clearly the superior team. And Carson Palmer is THE MAN (albeit an injured man). Just thought I’d point that out.
I noticed some other posts about places to visit. Not one Texas city mentioned. Dubya would be dissapointed in you. I mean, he’s a two-term president! How could you not want to visit his state? Clearly he must have done a good job to get elected twice. You should be honored to visit Crawford and his stompin’ grounds. I mean, it’s only a half hour from Waco. You could do the ol’ Texas Book Depository to Branch Davidian Compound to Crawford tour! It’s an American classic. And Dubya’s rise was right out of a Horatio Alger rags-to-riches story. I think your history class would appreciate it!
Also noticed several posts related to energy. Interesting ideas about alternative sources, however I agree with John’s comment that the only real “solution” is to use less of it. An Apollo Energy Program could certainly help out and is long overdue (Carter talked about it in the 1970s, unfortunately for him, his implementation was lacking!). But since we haven’t started already, it’s hard to imagine anything like that getting started with sufficient lead time – running the numbers on the actual amounts of energy that we use is staggering, and things like wind/solar/biomass/nuclear would take years to implement at such a wide scale. It’s hard to imagine that any kind of economic shock could be avoided if oil prices continued to increase, and/or supply suddenly began to decline, given the lead-time required to implement new infrastructure or technologies. My hope is that oil/natural gas prices will rise on a slow, continuous basis, and “solve the problem for us” by making alternative sources economically competitive and encouraging their development, as well as encouraging individuals to use less (oil) energy in general, and hopefully these thoserises will be steady enough to avoid a “hard landing” as some have come to call it. This probably will be the single defining issue of the 21st century.
By: bwalsh on May 27, 2006
at 11:51 pm