With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
February 04, 2008 - 2:23 a.m.
As promised I'm writring this not on MS Word but on Open Office. We'll see how this goes. It would be nice to use something not by microsoft. The test will be do see if I can simply copy and past this onto diaryland without all kinds of weird characters appearing. Laura, the WFUV web master taught me how to work the problem in Word but it would be nice to be able to simply copy and paste.
This has been my computer tuning weekend. I'm also for the first time every backing up my computer. I'm doing it onto my external hard drive. Lets see if I can find a way to do that automatically. That would be nice. A picture of a lightbulb just popped up on the lower right corner of my screen. I wonder what that's about. Right now I'm finding it more cumbsome to use than Word but I'm going to give it a chance. That is exactly the lesson I'm trying to teach my students. When you learn a new method of doing something it might be harder or slower than the methods you know but with practice it will become easier and faster. One student objecting to my making her learn synthetic division. She insisted that long division was faster even though she had never learned synthethic division. That is pretty much impossible as it involves so much less writing and easier calculations. If you could do long division faster than synthetic division you could write your name five times faster than you could write it twice. She just doesn't get the idea that once she learns the method it will be faster.
I don't have much to say about what I did today. The only time I left the house was to do some shopping. I told you about what I've done on the computer. I also managed to rip a lot of CDs. It would be nice if I could keep up this rate. As an added bonus I'm filing the CDs in my CD racks where they belong. I might actually end up getting a handle on my collection.
Tonight was the superbowl. I watched a few minutes of it and none of the commercials. Does that make me unAmerican? As a Jet fan I feel compelled to root against both teams. So from my point of view the big news is that the Patriots lost. I won't think about who won. The best consolation is that Tom Brady wants to run for office as a Republican after he retires and an undefeated season would have looked too good on his resume.
I'm listening to the Snacks's CD now. The Snacks si the Kennedysuse when doing children's shows. It is wonderful.
In the Kennedys' newletter they announced that Maura is missing some shows because she has to take care of an ill family member. I wrote her to get the details and wish her well. She was one of the best people for me to talk to when mother was ill. If you know her that won't suprise you. That's a gift I'd love to have. I do my best. As I've said he before, if you don't know what to say don't worry. Just let the other person know you care. I've been through a lot since I've started writing this, I lost both of my parents and I had cancer myself. I appreciated every kind word and thought you gave me.
The not eating peanut butter seems to be working. I'm starting to itch a bit as I haven't taken my evening dose of prednisone yet but this has been one of the best days I've had. The thing is I don't want to give up peanut butter so part of me is hoping that the dermatitis returns so that I can go back to eating peanut butter. There is a great sale on it this week at Walbaums so I'm going to have to decide by Thursday if the peanut allergy is real.
Tuesday is the New York Democratic Primary, part of Super Tuesday. I realized that I haven't given my official endorsement to anyone. Most of you will not like it. I'm supporting Hillary. It is amazing how the candidate most feared by the right is not embraced by the left. Krugman in the Times has pointed out that on domestic issues she is consistantly more liberal than Obama yet she seems to get no credit for that. Yes she voted to authorize the war. I might have too. To vote against it really meant calling the president a liar. He was one but that was early in his administration and it was not as obvious. She didn't want to be like the Republicans that questioned every move that Bill Clinton made as president. She was trying to be non-partisan. Now I have no real problems with Obama and will support him whole heartedly if he wins the nomination. I have friended him on MySpace. I'll work on his campaign. I will also hope that he goes back on his campaign promise when it comes time to work on Universal Health Care. That is one of the issues he has taken to using Republican rhetoric on, attacking Edwards's and Hillary's plans from the right. Everyone that has seriously studied the issues knows that participation in the program has to be manditory for it to work. You can't have a system that people can opt out of until they get sick as Obama proposes.
OK enough electioneering. I'm not actually trying to convince anyone how to vote, just to get you to understand where I'm coming from.
OK this is absurd. I've written almost a thousand words and this program says I'm still on page one. I don't like that. I hope I end up liking Open Office. Well if nothing else I now have a database program. If I learn how to use it I'm going to put all my concerts on it.
How'd it get so late? I better get to bed. I have to remember to not turn off my computer. It has another 19 hours to go to back up my hard drive.
The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy - October 07, 2008
On the Road to Westchester County - October 06, 2008
Inside the Madison Square Studio - October 05, 2008
I'm a Bosniac and I'm debating like I've never debated before - October 03, 2008
Islands in the Stream of Consciousness - October 02, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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