Reading. While I still escape to Road & Track and Sport Compact Car for most of my informationalistical intake, I've added some new ingredients to the stew that is my reading material. In the sea of wasted words and asinine attempts to sound articulate, I enjoy exposure to cogent words like these delivered by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger at the SIPA World Leaders Forum with President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Columbia has been blasted by some for hosting Ahmadinejad, and to those I say, with the confidence, accent, and indeed inflection of Simon Pegg, jog off. I would recommend you read Bollinger's entire speech, and below is a thoughtful bit:
"In the moment, the arguments for free speech will never seem to match the power of the arguments against, but what we must remember is that this is precisely because free speech asks us to exercise extraordinary self- restraint against the very natural but often counter-productive impulses that lead us to retreat from engagement with ideas we dislike and fear. In this lies the genius of the American idea of free speech."
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In sports, Pakistan Cricket (friend of the Blahg) was defeated by arch-rival India on Monday. I've launched an investigation to determine if Floyd Landis was on India's roster-stay posted. Blessings on you Blahg-lievers.
1 comment:
i know!! i know which word was made up!!...i think you've been spending too much time with tamara lately. if you need a list of tamara colloquialisms, just let me know, and i'll be happy to provide.
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