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  Hydrogen T
  by Gregoryno6

  US$27.93

  It’s been another one of those weeks where everyone has just been driving me mad. / An incident on the way home tonight pretty much capped it off. A woman stepped off the curb and walked straight out in front of the bus. She made such a show of ignoring the driver’s blast on the horn I think she might have been hoping he’d hit her. / And there’s still Friday to get through yet.

• I have a reputation for misanthropy
  by Gregoryno6

  ... which the T shirt I’ll be adding tonight will do nothing to diminish. / Stay tuned.

  ... which the T shirt I’ll be adding tonight will do nothing to diminish. / Stay tuned.

• Back to the Stone Age: Visa Argentina says no to Paypal and other oddities (Anger Overload)
  by AbyssalSoul

  And I say we are absolutely screwed. That’s it. Officially, I can’t purchase, get paid or anything through Paypal using a Visa credit car…

  And I say we are absolutely screwed. That’s it. Officially, I can’t purchase, get paid or anything through Paypal using a Visa credit card (sadly those are the only ones we have in our family…) This also turns my paypal account into an “unverified” one (no credit card), ergo I have that lame limit for transferences. Not only our money isn’t worth a penny outside of the country, not only the official postal service doesn’t let you make International Postal Money Orders without using a third-party service (Western union, which many sites seem to dislike a lot), not only they won’t let you pay in dollars. WTF? You are the official postal service for god’s sake and you cannot accept dollars? HOW THE HELL DO YOU KEEP TOURISTS HAPPY? DO I NEED TO SHOW A DIFFERENT NATIONALITY (preferably european) TO BE TREATED BETTER? God, I’m so fed up. My simple, stupid, plain and retarded, even childish and naive idea was to actually do the following: 1) Purchase music cd from a site (options were PayPal and IPMO) / 2) Purchase a poster from Redbubble through PayPal Easy, right? Yes, in a serious country. I can’t do any of those. First, because for PayPal I would need a credit card in order to transfer money from a bank account to PayPal or to posses a USA bank account. Now, the only credit cards we have are from Visa, ergo, we are screwed because our Central Bank and Visa don’t like their citizens to buy stuff from other countries (usually cheaper, hell the cd I’m trying to get would cost four/five times its real price here) Then I’m beginning to think I won’t even be able to send a postal money order for the simple fact that the seller might not appreciate Western Union at all (hopefully it’s a popular seller with good reputation and has been operating since 2001) I’m crossing my fingers, hoping they won’t mind me to pay through that source which is, actually MY LAST RESOURCE. WHO THE HOLY RECONTRA F-- I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE POSSIBLE SOURCE OF PAYMENT? Which is also hindered because I AM going to get ripped off by Western Union’s obscene taxes for international orders. (21% here, 2% there, 2usd of extra charges and what not) What kind of shit is this? (to hell with self-censoring I’m angry now) What the fuck is wrong with this government? They think they are puppeteers or something, lying with the inflation index, lying with the prices, lying with everything. I know most governments lie but these guys put Pinnocchio (sp?) in shame. I’ll kill the next person that spits the “but you have to like where you live”, “progress there, build something” crap. I don’t buy it anymore. This is cyclic. FREAKING CYCLIC! It happens every ten years or so, for the love of god this movie happened in 1989 (hyperinflation), 1998-1999 (deflation, recession, my father was fired and we entered in an economic debacle that hit its peak in 2001 and reached the worst point in 2002 with the devaluation…) We are in 2008. Time for another crisis? Look at the newspapers, oh the irony, GLOBAL ECONOMIC MAYHEM. And what does the government say here? We are protected because we have superavit. What the hell? You call superavit ripping everyone off with obscene taxes to the point we are years delayed in terms of technology? Jeez. I want to get out of here but I can’t even do that. 120 flights cancelled since December. And apparently that actually made it to the news of other countries… Yes, because tourists were affected by that. Oh, yeah, even getting the passport can be THE odyssey. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, you got to kill to stay alive. Yes, Iron Maiden rules. Selah. No wonder tango is popular here. The music for the melancholic and the lonely. Yes, it’s quite hard to purchase stuff online here.

• Little Black Sambo
  by Arletta

  I just mentioned the book ‘Little Black Sambo’ in a comment or two, in regards to “buttery” artwork, and I was recommending that the pers…

  I just mentioned the book ‘Little Black Sambo’ in a comment or two, in regards to “buttery” artwork, and I was recommending that the person I was commenting to read it and view the wonderful artwork if they get a chance. Then, I went to look it up online, and what I found is a whole lot of weirdness! None of the books were the one I read as a child. The one I read as a child did call him Little Black Sambo, yes, but there was no Black Mumbo or Black Jumbo and it was completely different artwork. Yet, it was banned, all the same as the other ones. Here is something I did not find, which I think is quite disturbing: the truth! The tale of Little Black Sambo, the real tale, the one that was in the book that I read and which the purported author of Little Black Sambo had obviously heavily based her work on, was not a racist commentary made up by a Scottish woman to entertain her daughters! It is an old, old tale of one of the smartest, most cunning ancestors of an African people: Sambo! It’s about how even as a child he was so smart and brave that he could outwit even the most frightening of their enemies, the man eating tigers, and make them powerless against him. It is a tale of bravery and resourcefulness, an honoring of the ancestors, and a reason for being proud to be of that blood and to carry that name. One of the saddest things I have ever seen is a small family group of two persons, standing in a foreign land, in a library, where they expected freedom of thought and self expression, watching people of other colors and races, insulting their ancestral history ,burning books and crying out that the names of those two persons ancestors was filth and not to even be spoken of in public, .. .and one of them, the little boy, looking up into his mother’s eyes and crying, demanding to know why, if Sambo was so disgusting, she would name him that! That was at a book burning, that was inspired by people seeing that the library had the book ‘Little Black Sambo.” They went crazy, putting burn barrels into the building and lighting all sorts of books up. I risked life and limb to wrestle one of those books away from them and give it to the young man, while explaining to him how stupid some people are that they think just because their ancestors acted badly they have the right to punish everyone else and how Sambo is a wonderful name, that’s why it was made fun of by bad people who dishonored themselves by their actions, because they waned to take away the goodness and nobility of the name among the people they enslaved. Well, they didn’t do it, but congratulations to the book burners and banners for succeeding where the racist bastards failed! However, be aware that there once was a little brown Sambo who clutched the book Little Black Sambo, the good one about his ancestors, to his chest and watched in fear as some of you threatened to tear him and me limb from limb for daring to want to know the story, the dignity, behind the prejudicial silliness. And he did grow up, and I’m still alive, so.. if the truth shall set you free, than he and I have been free for decades, and you still aren’t!

• My Bubble, My Ass
  by Katherine Anderson

  I know the last few entries I’ve posted have been relatively intelligent musings on art and such, but since I can’t access my regular blo…

  I know the last few entries I’ve posted have been relatively intelligent musings on art and such, but since I can’t access my regular blog from work (and in consideration of the fact that my brain seems to have liquefied) I fear I’m going to have to subject you all to what is running through my head right now. Which is… Absolutely nothing. Because I’m sitting in my office on my second to last day working for the Inner Ring of Hell Department Stores, owned by the conglomerate known as Satan’s Playground Retail Systems, listening to the one and only radio station that comes in clearly…yes people…easy listening. The monotony broken only by ads for the New Kids on the Block reunion concert. I’m so TOTALLY getting tickets. I so m still so bored I want to poke myself in the eye just for something to do. Now where is my exacto knife??

• Henry Foghart - A Man of Few Words
  by MicahKB

  A surveillance video plays… A man stands at the back of the store, staring at the cans of spaghetti on the shelf. A woman enters,...

  The mince-maid beguiles brandishable termites….. The meaning is as clear as day. I barely even used adjectives.

• Disgusted with the Downgrading of University Standards
  by XtomJames

  I just recently edited the syllabus of a friend of mine’s. It was written by her prof for a history class. I must say that for a 60 some …

  I just recently edited the syllabus of a friend of mine’s. It was written by her prof for a history class. I must say that for a 60 some year old, his grammar reminds me of a four year olds. The six page reference was filled with more grammar errors than a comic strip done by Mad Magazine. I counted some eighteen run on sentences, misspellings of tons of every day words. And whats worse is the total missuse of semi-colons, colons, commas, apostrophes, and dashes. The lengthy uncomprehensable piece of crap had so many errors I felt my IQ drop fifty points. To be quite honest I feel this prof shouldn’t be teaching.

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  Incomplete Idiot
  by optimusjimbo

  US$23.94