Re: Where I Went Wrong

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A columnist on the Guardian has found Enver Hoxha's New Year address to the Albanian people from 1967:

"This year will be harder than last year," the Albanian leader informed his people. "It will, however, be easier than next year."

It somehow seems on topic. Let's hope otherwise.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 5:48 AM
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man, I want this year to be easier than last year.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 6:20 AM
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I've been telling myself for at least a term of indentured servitude that the next year would have to be better than the last and been disappointed. I may need to change my strategerical thinking.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 6:46 AM
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no, no; it's just that the metric was flawed such that it will be true about 2012, despite not having been true about earlier years. you're fine.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 8:06 AM
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My favourite here is number 48.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 8:40 AM
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I don't know if this is the right mood or not, but I've recently decided that "Disorder In The House" is a song about rage (combined with wry amusement, since it is Warren Zevon) at one's failing body.

I hadn't picked up on that before but, once I did, I think it's a really good song. So, if it amuses you to think of the bacteria as "Zombies on the lawn staggering around" there is a song for you.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 10:31 AM
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I'll do it here.

Tiger Moms vs Wolf Dads ...The Last Psychiatrist on Amy Chua and parenting memes

(PS:Not in this post, but relevant to it, TLP says:"We don't believe word, we believe identity.' This is Narcissism. Remember Alex's catalogue of Bobs?)

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Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 11:01 AM
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6: I do think of them that way already! the philosopher kings are locked in the citadel but have no army, and are just watching things burn outside.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 9:37 PM
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Visualize a revolver shotgun, Ala.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 12-31-11 9:45 PM
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