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Stumbling Along the Edge of Forever
The Merry Cynic's Journal: Since 28 April 2003
Created on 2003-04-28 20:20:47 (#1031494), last updated 2009-07-14
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Basic Info| Name: | Bobby |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1981-05-24 |
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/canadianbobby |
BioMy name is Bobby. I grew up in Southern Illinois (yes, we capitalize it), about 55 miles southeast of St. Louis, MO. I've lived in the countryside for most of my life.
I had a strange childhood, but then again, is there really a normal one? I was raised almost single-handedly by my mom, while my dad worked and went to college full-time. I spent lots of time with my maternal grandparents as well, who lived in an even smaller town than the one I grew up by. It was the sort of place where you could only get two channels on the rabbit ears.
Growing up I always had eccentric interests, such as maps, geography, history and ghosts. While other kids were drawing hearts with arrows through them, I was drawing Kazakhstan and writing fan letters to the President of Nauru.
Nowadays, I'm an underemployed educator waiting for the "big break." If you can provide it, don't hesitate to talk to me ;)
I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in the humanities (magna cum laude) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with emphases in history, political science, and psychology.
I also hold a Master of Arts degree from the University of Windsor.
This journal is semi-friends only. I'm pretty fickle about which entries are friends-only and which are not. I like to meet new people, so feel free to add me. I'm not an elitist who insists on reading your journal for weeks/months before I decide that I may add you back, so fear not.
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife
"If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcomes enslavement?"
-- Caractacus
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
“You know how bad the situation is when the president's choice for attorney general has to formally pledge not to support torture anymore.”
-– Maureen Dowd
"Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies."
-- Nawal El Saadawi
"I cannot mount on horseback against ideas."
-- King of Wurttemberg (on the Revolutions of 1848)
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
-- Pierre Trudeau
"If you don't stop that, I'll kick you right in the ass."
-- Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to a kid pelting him with wheat, 1969
"The courts have to overthrow legislation, because governments continue to breach constitutions. That's why you have a judicial branch to be umpires, to say when governments go too far. That's why you need judges who can't be fired!"
--Fmr. Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
"To have a referendum to decide on the fate of the minority, it's a problem. It's why we have constitutions – to protect the rights of the minority. It's why we have the Charter of Rights. So if it is always the majority vote by referendum, who will defend the minorities?"
-- Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister of Canada, speaking on a possible same-sex marriage referendum
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-- Dawson's Creek
"The devil came here yesterday. It still smells of sulphur today"
-- Hugo Chavez speaking about George W. Bush at the U.N.
"Stalin: stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."
-- Josef Broz "Tito" in a memo to Josef Stalin of the USSR
I had a strange childhood, but then again, is there really a normal one? I was raised almost single-handedly by my mom, while my dad worked and went to college full-time. I spent lots of time with my maternal grandparents as well, who lived in an even smaller town than the one I grew up by. It was the sort of place where you could only get two channels on the rabbit ears.
Growing up I always had eccentric interests, such as maps, geography, history and ghosts. While other kids were drawing hearts with arrows through them, I was drawing Kazakhstan and writing fan letters to the President of Nauru.
Nowadays, I'm an underemployed educator waiting for the "big break." If you can provide it, don't hesitate to talk to me ;)
I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in the humanities (magna cum laude) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with emphases in history, political science, and psychology.
I also hold a Master of Arts degree from the University of Windsor.
This journal is semi-friends only. I'm pretty fickle about which entries are friends-only and which are not. I like to meet new people, so feel free to add me. I'm not an elitist who insists on reading your journal for weeks/months before I decide that I may add you back, so fear not.
On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!
Click here to post this on your page or 'blog
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
-- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife
"If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcomes enslavement?"
-- Caractacus
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
“You know how bad the situation is when the president's choice for attorney general has to formally pledge not to support torture anymore.”
-– Maureen Dowd
"Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies."
-- Nawal El Saadawi
"I cannot mount on horseback against ideas."
-- King of Wurttemberg (on the Revolutions of 1848)
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
-- Pierre Trudeau
"If you don't stop that, I'll kick you right in the ass."
-- Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, to a kid pelting him with wheat, 1969
"The courts have to overthrow legislation, because governments continue to breach constitutions. That's why you have a judicial branch to be umpires, to say when governments go too far. That's why you need judges who can't be fired!"
--Fmr. Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis
"To have a referendum to decide on the fate of the minority, it's a problem. It's why we have constitutions – to protect the rights of the minority. It's why we have the Charter of Rights. So if it is always the majority vote by referendum, who will defend the minorities?"
-- Jean Chretien, former Prime Minister of Canada, speaking on a possible same-sex marriage referendum
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-- Dawson's Creek
"The devil came here yesterday. It still smells of sulphur today"
-- Hugo Chavez speaking about George W. Bush at the U.N.
"Stalin: stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."
-- Josef Broz "Tito" in a memo to Josef Stalin of the USSR
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Southwestern Illinois College - Belleville - Belleville, IL (1999 - 2001)Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, IL (2002 - 2004)
University of Windsor - Windsor, ON, Canada (2004 - 2005)
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