Vox Newman
Are We Not Athenians?
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Oh here’s a meta-moment for you. I’m thinking about blogs: I’m writing my thoughts about this on my blog. In doing so, I’m creating a new category called ‘Truth Diary’. That’s sort of in opposition to my ‘Liar’s Digest’ and while I think I’ll be waxing philosophic here, it’s not quite ‘Newman Logic’ because this will reveal truths about an individual rather than muse about Life, The Universe and Everything. And by the way if you have a fundamental truth about yourself you want to reveal in blog form contact me. 
I remember back when the blogosphere was the next big thing. Back before the Huffington Post, Perez Hilton and Stuff White People Like they talked about this revolution: people would be sharing themselves with the world, their lives would be broadcast and then scrutinized and the most popular blogs would be the most honest ones. That didn’t seem to happen.
Tags: blog, blogging, community, gamer, games, gaming, huffington post, newman logic, outsiders, perez hilton, philosophy, sharing, stuff white people like, thinking, writing
Emperor Harper
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It’s the day after the English language leaders’ debate for the Canadian federal election. What I wonder is if the issue that should be paramount in voters’ minds is getting the traction it needs. The issue I’m talking about is tied to how the Harper government failed, triggering an election. The minority government of Stephen Harper’s Conservative party was defeated by an unprecedented parliamentary motion. What happened needs restating: the Harper government was not only dissolved by a vote of non-confidence, it was also found in contempt of Parliament. This is the first time a sitting Prime Minister’s government has been found in contempt of Parliament. 
Is this serious? Yes. And is it something that should be an election issue? Harper doesn’t seem to think so but then again he likes to mislead Canadians anyway.
“Whoa! What does that mean?†you ask.
And my answer is that Harper fabricated a myth when he first faced the wrath of the opposition parties in the winter of 2008/09. I remember, during that time-period speaking with a friend who had voted for the Conservative party in the previous election. She was very concerned that the Liberals and NDP were acting illegally. I was extremely confused by her reaction because up until that moment I was under the impression that the workings of our Parliamentary system were common knowledge at least as far as minority governments were concerned. Of course, what happened to Joe Clark has been separated by 30 years of relatively stable majority federal governments, but I had assumed up until that point that the meat of the tale were still part of our national zeitgeist.
It turns out that I was wrong.
Tags: AECL, afghan detainees, bloc quebecois, canada, canadian, chalk river, chernobyl, CNSC, coalition, community, compromise, conservatives, contempt of parliament, election, emperor, F-35, fukushima, government, harper, joe clark, liberals, lies, lying, medical isotopes, ndp, nero, nuclear reactor, palpatine, parliament, politics, prorogue, red light: green light, seperatists
The Black Market
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Don’t miss it! Today only, the criminal underworld is having a garage sale: a market on the shores of the Black Sea. Setting aside their differences, members of the Yakuza, Triads, United Nations, Hell’s Angels, Russian and Italian mobs etc have put aside their differences to bring you this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Need spare pieces for a kneecap? Look no further. We’ve got everything you need, such as Sun Tzu’s lesser known work: the ‘Art of the Drive by’.   If you’re in need of cash, all of our vendors can spot you: prime plus 1000.
Tags: Al Pacino, black market, community, criminal underworld, drive by, drug trade, fun, garage sale, hells angels, hoffa, jabba the hutt, jimmy, kneecap, mafia, organized crime, party, tony montana, triad, united nations, yakuza
He’s so Jimmy
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Jimmy here: sorry I didn’t return your text/email/call/tit flash in the club, but I was busy getting laid i.e. winning. I might get back to you later, if I need a booty call when my girlfriend’s out of town. She’s a model, so she goes out of town a lot which means that you might be winning sometime soon. Keep in mind though, that I have an epic contact list. Don’t worry, it’s not organized alphabetically, it’s ordered by the magnitude of what I imagine you can do with your lips.
Of course, making out with your girl friend can only help your case. But don’t think it settles matters: there’s all kinds of trampy ways for hot girls to get my attention. And really, that’s what I’m all about, getting attention: if you give me the right amount and I’m drunk enough, things will naturally progress from there.
Tags: adventure, bitches be pumpin', boy, community, dog with a bone, fun, girl, jimmy, love, making out, newman logic, tao of steve, winning
Changing the world
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Based on my personal observation of human interaction these days, pessimism is running rampant. It seems to me that a great many people blame ‘the world’ for their current circumstances, presupposing that their current circumstances are bad and comparing the situations of poorly defined others who have ‘better’ lives and/or the imagining of another era (that never existed) in which things would be ‘better’. 
I’ve never really understood this idea of blaming everyone else for not ‘getting ahead’. It seems to me that if you were to give up on a goal because it’s too hard to achieve due to the obstacles ‘others’ have placed in your path, then you’ve traded a difficult task for an insurmountable one: how is whining about it going to change the world around you to suit your needs? Isn’t it easier to circumvent the obstacles in your path rather than to point at them hoping that someone will remove them for you? In addition to that, it is necessary sometimes to acknowledge that an obstacle cannot be removed or a goal cannot be reached and move on to something else.
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