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| Thursday, April 6, 2006 |
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Looks are everything 
| | Now that Sam (three time undefeated champion) is gone (though his Mom Susie's blog lives on), the World's Ugliest Dog title is up for grabs. You might think odds favor Sam's girlfriend Tator Tot (above), who has been a strong runner-up in past contests. But you've gotta like contestants like Lucille Bald (below) as well. |
| | Susie herself favors Pee Wee... |
| | ... about whom the ballot says, |
| | Pee Wee Martini is know by some as "Pee Wee, Son of Sam" (a nickname given to him by Susie, mother of Sam). He is a two year old Chinese Crested / Japanese Chin mix. His crooked face, naked body, long tongue (that hangs out the side of his mouth 24/7), long nasty nails and punk rock mohawk say it all when asked why he should win this year's contest. He would be honored to carry the title "Ugliest Dog in the World" once held by our precious Sammy, who is missed dearly by all. Let's keep Sam's spirit alive by voting for "Pee Wee, Son of Sam"! |
Mo'ball
| | I've already posted pointers to where others have responded to the piece. But the Snowball Effect is about more than pointage. It's about taking a basic idea, or a group of related ideas — and editing, improving or otherwise enlarging them. |
| | Dan Siemon draws out some pionts made in a comment titled "Wake the Dragon" (unfortunately, I can't point to individual comments... go here and scroll down... all the comments are worthwhile) |
| | The response that blows my mind most at the moment is AKMA's Morality 2.0. An excerpt: |
| | I believe in the kind of interactions that Doc describes as a "morality of generosity," to the extent that I¹d want to call into question the propriety of calling the other approaches "morality" in the truest sense. As a theologian, I affirm the priority of grace (generosity, gratuity, giving) over other modes of interaction. "Balancing books," an economy of interaction grounded in equal action (Doc's "morality of accounting") has going for it an intuitive sense of the fairness that matters deeply to U. S. ideological history — but it enmeshes us in an endless series of struggles over the nature of fairness, who gets to decide, and so on (struggles that constitute an economic drag as well as a practical impediment). "Self-interest" doesn't even approximate a morality, as far as I'm concerned; even when "enlightened," self-interest rarely approaches the degree ethical grandeur of animal life. More often, it devolves into an appallingly degraded struggle of the rich and powerful to protect and extend their sphere of power at the cost of others' livelihoods and lives. |
| | I love "affirm the priority of grace", plus AKMA's casual definition (generosity, gratuity, giving) of a term I've always liked yet have rarely heard the priesthood define. Whether or not the dismal science can brook the concept (and we're a long way from finding out), I do think grace is a big aspect of What's Going On. (A positive way we all get to play God, you might say.) |
| | He discerns at work on the web the invisible hand not of Adam Smith but of God... |
| | Nick, the verb was play. fwiw. |
Guilty as charged
| | Tell me about it. Last night (Tuesday night, as I write this at 10pm Wednesday) I hit the sack at 1:30am EDST, got up at 3, showered, packed, drove to the airport at 4, spent almost two hours on various lines between the rental car return and the jetway, slept 1.5 hours to Chicago, worked in an airport lounge, slept most of the 2.5 hours to San Antonio, and have mostly worked since then. It's now 10pm. I pick up my wife and kid at the airport in an hour, and hopefully we'll be asleep before 1am here (2am EDST). |
| | But, since today (Wednesday) was a Big Deadline and I'm not quite done, I'll get up early and work again. |
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