Tag: viewpoint

Funny as heck, but probably only to nerds…

I was just trolling around on the Gentoo fora, and found a thread with this amazing link on it: STRONG LANGUAGE and CONTENT — NOT for anyone under 18: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Gentoo If you’re not a huge nerd like me, that content might not be funny at all. However, if you’re into computers and programming, you will …

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A huge loss for comedy

On Sunday, at the age of 71, George Carlin died of heart failure. He was certainly a comedic icon, probably most remembered for “Al the Hippy Dippy Weatherman,” the “7 words you can’t say on television,” or just his general antistructuralistic sentiments. He leaves behind a generation of comics that modeled their humour and their …

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Desire: More than a streetcar?

I’m currently reading the book Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax, MD, PhD. Though I will surely write a detailed review and critique of his work when I finish it, I found a statement in his book so intriguing that I believed immediate mention to be warranted. About halfway through the sixth chapter, which is about …

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