If you’ve watched the world news or read a bit online, you’ve probably seen something about the riots in Kyrgyzstan, a former USSR republic that borders China and just tried to oust its president. Protesting masses took to the streets demanding a change in government, the president fled, hundreds of police were summoned to quell [...]
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Kyrgyz Clashes
Posted in General Mischief, tagged ABC, action, ammunition, appointment, arm, automatic, Bahkiev, Bakiev, Bakiyev, Bishkek, capitol, change, cheat, clash, CNN, concussion grenade, conscience, corrupt, cost, coup, damage, dead, demonstration, depose, determination, excessive, fair, fight, fire, force, freedom, government, governor, guard, gun, handgun, hostage, hurt, injure, interim, justice, killed, Kurmanbek, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, leader, malfeasance, mass, media, moral, news, Nightline, non-lethal, opposition, Otunbayeva, oust, police, politics, populace, population, power, president, price, protest, rebel, republic, resign, resignation, resolution, retaliat, riot, Rosa, Roza, rubber bullet, Russia, sharpshooter, sub-machine, Talas, tear gas, unarm, United States, unjust, USSR, utility, vehicle, video, violence, water cannon, weapon, White House, witness, wound on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Green Shoots
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Humorous, Personal Insights, tagged America, banana, bandwagon, beat, Blue Ball, Blue Devil, box, bruise, bull, Burpee, business, cardboard, caveat emptor, change, chemical, chlorophyll, claim, company, cost, country, crush, died, disgust, display, dollar, drop, E. coli, economist, economy, elbow grease, enforcement, exotic, family, fertilizer, fly, food, fresh, frost, funds, fungicide, garden, genetic engineer, government, Green, ground, Gurney, heirloom, herbicide, honor system, hybrid, Ides of March, ill, import, incident, investment, label, law, layover, lettuce, mango, market, mascot, order, organic, oversight, patch, pathogen, pesticide, plan, plane, plant, plate, plenty, poke, politics, popular, price, produce, regulation, rubbish, rule, season, seed, shoot, shovel, sick, soil, spinach, spray, spring, stipulation, store, summer, sun, supermarket, supplier, supply, Team Blue, test, tomato, variety, vegetable, Victory Garden, wam, Washington, Word War II, WWII on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The phrase used by optimistic economists for the last year is starting to come to life. But I’m not going to talk about the economy, or politics, or even Team Blue (which, by the way, needs a mascot, I think … but Blue Devils is taken and I don’t think Blue Balls would go over [...]
Dear Diary
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged acceptance, acknowledg, apathy, associated, assume, bad, better, blog, broadened, care, change, circle, circumstance, comfortable, conquer, content, contentment, curb, definition, depressing, discourse, dream, drive, eagerness, enough, expect, expectation, experience, fake, figure head, find, first step, fit, grow, happiness, happy, high school, hope, horizon, idealism, important, impotent, individual, job, know, lack, life, low, mean, measure, mental, mentally, moment, morose, non-hope, official, opinionated, people, person, physical, physically, place, post, power, problem, real, result, search, shift, silly, sixteen-year-old, solution, stolen, stubborn, success, time, truth, warp, world on January 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I recently read a blog post about the uncertainty of life, how we change as an individual over time, and how it’s important to live in the moment. I left a reply, which included the thought that sometimes realizing we’ve changed over time isn’t nearly as bad as realizing that we haven’t changed enough. In [...]
Changing the World
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged change, focus, life, sunshine on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I often think my life is small and broken and inconsequential. Actually I know it is. But I’ve pretty well come to terms with that and it doesn’t bother me like it used to. When I was younger – and full of indefatigable spirit fueled by bountiful reserves of naiveté and innocence – I wanted [...]
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