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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?

    Are you going to prove that marriage has been around since before organized religion, Qi? Because just saying it has doesn't make it so.

    Sep 10, 2005
  • Writing Tips Re: How to Write Critiques

    This is a critique of critiques of stories, and outside of some very basic tenets, is practically useless in the realm of poetry. Nonetheless, it should be quite helpful for ...

    Sep 10, 2005
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Signature Above You.

    10/10. But that's because I'm a postmodernist and I love paradox.

    Sep 10, 2005
  • Other Poetry Re: a poem (warning, this piece has a lot of adult language)

    This may be poetry, but it certainly isn't art, nor does it have artistic merit. It is the standard, normative rants of everyone -- ultimately, it conforms. To conform for ...

    Sep 10, 2005
  • Other Poetry Re: a poem (warning, this piece has a lot of adult language)

    Two fundamental definitions: 1. Journal entry--Writing in which the writer tells the reader what emotions the writer is experiencing about something. 2. Poem--Writing in which the writer causes the re

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Mcdonalds Vs. Obese People

    My own disgust (distrust?) of McDonald's, it is the people's fault. Though you could, I suppose, hit McDonald's on misrepresentation of caloric amount, etc.

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Cosmetic Surgery

    Cosmetic Surgery is, obviously, cosmetic. And the people are usually just as fake on the inside as they are on the out.

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: reflection in the calm waters of a bathtub

    "The image is more important than the plot..." -Jean Baudrillard

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Are humans just animals?

    1. When a dog does something wrong, the owner tends to spank him. 2. When humans do something wrong, the government puts them in white rooms and small cells. 3. ...

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Illegal Drugs

    This is all circumlocutory language around the debate at hand: if you want to take pot, that's your own business, but that is not a valid or rational argument for ...

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Leadership

    A leader should be one who is familiar with tradition -- everything else is orbita dicta and, consequently, irrelevant. Even total chaos, I suppose, has a certain kind of 'traditional' ...

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?

    The real, proper argument against 'gay marriage' is an argument against all marriage. Constitutionally, gay marriage (or the 'normative' heterosexual marriage) is not protected -- nor are your suppose

    Sep 9, 2005
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: reflection in the calm waters of a bathtub

    Which, in essence, is the very point of this piece. It was written for my Postmodernism class; hence, fragmentation and (dis)connects are rampant. Allow me to paraphrase T.S. Eliot for ...

    Sep 8, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Life and Death

    Death is a gift.

    Sep 8, 2005
  • Randomosity Re: What Reviewers Wish They Could Say, but Don't.

    Under the terms of the Clean Water Act, the Stream of Consciousness is hereby declared irremediably polluted . Do not eat any fish caught in these waters. Swimmers: beware.

    Sep 6, 2005


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— Groucho Marx