My Polemic about Kitty

POLEMIC AGAINST MY BLACK CAT GEORGE:

The cat is evil.

Serving no function other than to

eat us out of house and home,

poop. in a box.

shed,

and, spread

*dramatic pause*

FLEAS...

Anyone of the opinion that the cat is useful had been deluded,

anyone who follows her black-cat-devil ways has been corrupted by her doctrine of self-centeredness.

(Her presence lulls you into doldrums with her.)

Her affections are pathetic and half hearted as well as unimpressive.

She can not even perform at the level of an ordinary cat, cannot jump past the level of a knee.

Any person who feeds her, feeds the black abyss of her never-ending, useless appetite - and feeding her catnip is asking for wrath.

The cat is altogether evil.

(See how the beginning and the end reinforce the fact that the cat is evil?)

"Meta"-Blog

"Meta"-Blogging is common, but not necessarily a good idea. Anyway, here goes.

What do I mean by "Meta"? In Epistemology (the study of knowledge), the prefix meta is used to mean "about it's own category."

Meta-blogging would be blogging about blogging.

It ranges from the very interesting to the extremely mundane, as the author is sucked into metacommentary about themselves and their own thought process, an anbiguous topic at best. On the other hand, sometimes it's hillarious, and adds much needed background to the issue blogged about. Whenever bloggers write about the process that they come to as the blog, they should keep these thoughts in mind:

- If Metacommentary about your "lack of something to write about" takes up your whole blog, you had better be a magician with words, turning that metacommentary into a legendary tale of defeating boredom.

- If "lack of something to write about" turns into a blog about Meta-blogging that no one (except possibly your professor) will chuckle about, that's OK because she's the ONLY one who will ever read your blog.

- Always have three points. Two is too few. Three is a magical number and it rounds out the look of the blog.

Have a wonderful day Professor Bradley.

Facing Race

Discussions of racism and I don't get along well. I hate discussions that put forth race as an inevitable marker that will divide people.

1.) I firmly believe that a person's appearance cannot be an indicator of worth. I'm opposed to affirmative action.

2.) I support interracial dating.

3.) I support espousing whatever culture you are influenced most by rather than the culture of your color

4.) I support mixing cultures and taking the best of whatever you encounter.

5.) I believe in learning from history's mistakes, not punishing or defining people by a physical resemblance that they share with a victim or aggressor in history.

6.) I believe that the history of the world is a communal history and that pride in the accomplishments of someone that looks like you as opposed to those who have a differing eye-shape or skin shade is egocentric as well as ethnocentric.

7.) I don't think that ethnocentrism has any good manifestations.

My opinions are strong and although people may agree with some of them, as a whole I'm in the minority. I have no idea how I will attempt to write a paper that encompasses all that I think about race but I would like to attempt it. Probably not a good idea.