Daily Archive: July 18, 2009

Jul 18 2009

What is love? Baby don’t hurt me…

“I hope you’re just going to ignore that loser.” “Nope, I plan on posting about it on my blog.” Jodi let out a resigned, slightly disgusted sigh. I’m sorry dear, but I just can’t let stuff like this go. Zdenny, Christian un-thinker and god-bot par excellence, decided that rather than continuing the argument he started …

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Jul 18 2009

The day journalism died

Walter Cronkite has passed away yesterday at 92 from his long-standing cerebrovascular disease, a complication of dementia. Though I did not grow up through the Watergate scandal, the three political assassinations that he covered, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Viet Nam war, or the Apollo 11 moon landing, when looking at the old archival news …

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Jul 18 2009

“I am prepared to die”, he said, in 1964

The man primarily associated with ending Apartheid, Nelson Mandela, turns 91 today. The long-term human rights activist, in possession of balls of steel that did not rust or tarnish with twenty-seven years in political imprisonment, took a five-year term in office at 75 as the oldest South African president. After retiring, he has spent the …

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