Bornfamous

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
–Ambrose Redmoon

And just like that, the problem is solved. Apparently, I made a template mistake:
$MTEntries author=”bornfamous”
…without mentioning lastn=”10″ for the number of entries I wanted to show up on the main page. Though I thought the blog configuration took care of that, maybe the author variable confused MT.
Anyway, it’s all fixed now… and I figured [...]

I’ve been messing with the site– maybe not such a good thing because when I try to edit and save or post an entry, or rebuild the index, I get the dreaded 500 Server error page. [Well, it wouldn't be quite so dreaded if I were male. If you've seen it, you know what I [...]

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
–Robert Fritz

Check out the comment I got this morning.
“hi my name is arash i am 26 years old i live in iran. i am a student in colleg . i am looking for american woman to marry . if you are o.k please send e-mail for me.”
Hmm… I am kinda lonely lately. What do you [...]

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At all times, and especially in wartime, truth becomes a lifeline.
The Pentagon recently bought up the exclusive rights to commercial satellite images showing civilian dead in Afghanistan. The U.S. government is trying to control what the entire country–including the [...]

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Buy your mouse a drink: Mouse turns 21 today

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
–Franz Kafka

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
– Benjamin Franklin

Alternet.org:
“Abusive parents, sexual molesters, pedophiles — none have written memoirs. There are memoirs by teenage prostitutes, but not johns. There are memoirs by battered wives, but not batterers.”

Okay, I know I’m not supposed to pass along messages posted to a private discussion list, but I couldn’t help myself. [I've removed the name and email address of the sender.]
This is from Hawaii… I don’t think I’m gonna fantasize about moving there any more:

I woke up this morning and had a reflex, “I don’t wanna wake– wait, that’s right. It’s finished!” Amazing how my depression has just disappeared.

Test yourself for hidden bias

It’s crunch time on the disability application. I’m done with everything except the dreaded list of physicians — dreaded because a] it goes back so many years and I’ve forgotten so many names, addresses and other details required and b] the details required are so detailed that– well, it scares me. I know it’s dumb, [...]