Intelligence

Isn't based on what you know. It's based on how you use what you know. You wouldn't call Socrates an idiot because he'd never heard of a computer, would you?

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A Good Day

After over 7 years of fighting and the loss of 4,415 American soldiers the last combat brigade has finally left Iraq. Now we need to get out of Afghanistan.

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A Composite

Denial is delicious, isn't it? I have no problem feeding it to you.

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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Review

I've wanted to read this book for years now. For some reason I never got around to it. I've got this weird thing where I resent paying Borders full price for a book. I'm not usually a cheap bastard. I buy a crap-load of DVD's at full price so who knows. I generally shop for books in this little used bookstore near work that is packed with classics that only cost 50 cents apiece.Then back in July I got hooked on Ebay for a few weeks and ended up scoring a box full of Hunter S. Thompson stuff for only 14 bucks! I rule.

After that much buildup you'd think I'd be in for a letdown but Hunter did not disappoint. Yes, we are on a first name basis. I've had a man crush on him since I first watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas stoned out of my mind back when I was 14. If I was going to bang a dead writer that wasn't Russian it'd be him. Hell, he's even been portrayed in film by two of my other long-standing man-crushes Johnny Depp and Bill 'mutha-fuckin' Murray. There's a synergy about the whole thing.

The book is amazing. It's objective, biased, horrifying and profound. At times you feel like you're reading a nature book on some brutish animal and at other times you feel like you're peeking into the soul of all mankind. There is never a dull moment and at times you feel scared for the author. At other times you feel jealous that he's partying with Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey and the Hell's Angels while everyone is out of their gourd on LSD.

It was definitely a different time. A time I'd love to visit and this is a book that lets me do just that. Check it out, even if you have to pay full price.

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Daisy

She kissed me. She likes to kiss. I do too, just not her. She's the easy option. She's the cop out. It's not her fault, she's a nice girl. Annoying at times, but who isn't? Soon I'll pluck her first petal. She loves me. Then the next. She loves me not. I'll work my way around her body. She loves me. Dissecting her piece by piece. She loves me not. Eventually I'll get bored. She loves me. My deft touch will yank that last petal and set it sailing in the wind, never to be heard from again. She loves me not.
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