Month: July 2005

BoD: Bad Cat

Normally, I get a little twitchy and my teeth begin to chatter when I stand in line at one of the major chain bookstores and I look around and see what appears to be millions of little five, six, and seven dollar gift books, everywhere, peeking around every corner, stacked on every cash register, and…

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BoD: The Cliff Walk

The Cliff Walk: A Job Lost and a Life Found is a warm and emotional memoir from 1997 continues to resonate today with professionals in so many industries either out of work or facing career insecurity. Don Snyder taught at Colgate University and was frequently nominated by the Student Honor Society for the ???professor of…

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BoD: On Bullshit

John picked this thing up in Audiobook form and he unequivocally states that it???s a fun listen/read. While the author, a revered Princeton moralist and crank Harry G. Frankfurt, is a bit dense, On Bullshit is definitely up there with Swift???s Modest Proposal. At points angry and at all times funny, this is a little…

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Just When I Thought They Would Finally Shut Up

[Originally posted on Friday, June 17] I???m sobbing as I type this because I just don???t think I can take anymore?Ķ I hoped and prayed that we had reached a point to where everyone would just shut-up about the whole thing and we could get back on with our lives. So the autopsy results for…

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If We Had Sound on this Website, You’d Hear Me Puking

[Originally posted on Thursday, June 9th] No photo?Ķ I???m not wasting the bandwidth. As I wipe specks of my breakfast from my lips, and contemplate getting drunk at 9:15am, or maybe just jumping off the roof, The New York Daily News brings us this little bit of bile. Gossip columnist Lloyd Grove is hearing rumors…

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