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Archive for June, 2009

Philosophical Smart Aleck

Found a good chuckle buried inside “History of Western Philosophy” this weekend.

The Jewish pattern of history, past and future, is such as to make a powerful appeal to the oppressed and unfortunate at all times. Saint Augustine adapted this pattern to Christianity, Marx to Socialism. To understand Marx  psychologically, one should use the following dictionary:

• Yahweh = Dialectical Materialism
• The Messiah = Marx
• The Elect = The Proletariat
• The Church = The Communist Party
• The Second Coming = The Revolution
• Hell = The Punishment of the Capitalists
• The Millennium = The Communist Commonwealth

Oh Bertrand Russell, I don’t always agree with you, but you are good for the lols, homey.

Meet the new brunch, same as the old brunch

This is actually an old article from last year, but someone already asked me to repost it in the meantime. Sadly, it remains one of the most popular articles here. Happily, my dutch has gotten better since this was first written. Enjoy.

I was trying to decide on what to write about next today while eating a quick lunch. Originally, I was going to write a post about the Dutch penchant for strange time-related idioms but those really aren’t that different. (don’t worry, you’re still going to hear about them later on). Still, I wanted to write about something else. Something with more meat to it. Something more substantial. Something in dire need of mustard. “Ah ha!” I exclaimed, thrusting my hand into the air and promptly losing the salami between my bread to gravity’s nimble fingers. “The dutch obsession with sandwiches! That’d be a great post!” Of course, I’m trying to practice my dutch more in the house so it came out more like: “Ah ha! Het Nederlands…whatever-the-Dutch-word-for-obsession-is…met sandwiches! Or should that be broodjes? No, broodjes are just rolls and stuff. Crap, what IS the dutch word for sandwich?”
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Oh well.

Finally got around to upgrading to a modern version of Wordpress, but it seems something went awry with a table during the upgrade so just nuked it with a fresh install. I’ll get the content back later this week when I get time to update the old theme, or better yet, build a new one. In the meantime, enjoy how clean the site is?