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Thursday, May 29, 2003
TP Ethics and Grumpiness
By Diana Hsieh @ 3:35 PM PermaLink

It's about time that the blogosphere tackled the difficult ethical questions about the use of toiler paper in public restrooms. Reasonable Man to the rescue!

Oh, and a sick Jacob Levy complains about grumpiness:

Which reminds me: did you see this article about curmudgeons in the Sunday NYT? It has the unmitigated gall to compare Andy Rooney and Art Buchwald-- Art Buchwald!-- to, say, H.L. Mencken and George Carlin. Rooney is termed "curmudgeon in chief."

Mencken: took on the politics and culture of an era. Rooney: complains about the consistency of his earwax.
Carlin: went to the Supreme Court to defend freedom of speech. Buchwald: Dethawed every week to continue writing Maureen Dowd columns without the sex jokes.

In other words: I'm grumpy about the state of media coverage of grumpiness, and about the decline in the quality of grumpiness.

Did I mention I'm sick today?


I've been struggling through a series of deadlines for the entire month of May, so I've been unusually grumpy lately -- particularly in my online communications. (Then again, I haven't been able to leave the house much, so online communications have really been my only communications with people other than Paul.) Well, tonight I should be done with the last May deadline... and then I head down to Taos, New Mexico for a few days of very-very-very-much-vacation with my parents who are RV'ing around the southwest. I desperately hope that I'll be able to set aside some time to ride my horses and garden a bit when I return.

Okay, well, back to work. Augh.
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