November 2011
16 posts
Posthumous publication
Plato wrote the last days of Socrates, and describes within that document how Socrates comes to accept his death is 399 B.C. The text was written the years following his death but wasn’t officially published by Penguin Classics until 1954.
Works cited
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
The ancient keytar
A keyboard instrument that was around before the piano was the keytar.
The Pastrami's
This is not the only time in history men were castrated. In my music class I found out that eons of years ago male children were castrated so they could become soprano’s. Soprano’s were highly thought of by society and since they were castrated as very small children, they were raised as soprano’s. This group of men were called the pastrami’s. Look it up, very interesting.
Profiled as the whiniest races
Racial profiling has been around forever and can happen to any race, of any kind, at any time. However African Americans, Hispanics, and descendants from the Middle East are far more likely to complain about it than any other race.
Game of War
The Korean War was a battle between North and South Vietnam. They were fighting over who would contain the other in a mad game of Dominoes.
The others get crazy.
He didn’t really want to go to the others’ bedroom because he didn’t even want to think what kind of dirty orgasm lived there.
Shalom, motherf*ckers
Our house was a constant target for drive-by shootings and mazel tov cocktails.
Start 'em young
Las Vegas has already legalized gambling, prostitution (in some areas) and other entertainment for children.
I'm my own grandpa.
Oedipus married his mother, who also happened to be his wife.
A muse for the ages
After hearing the music of the French troubadours, Petrarch began to write sonnets about courtney love.
Making connections
If slavery wasn’t abolished women wouldn’t be able to vote, we wouldn’t have things such as the refrigerator, and women wouldn’t be able to work.
I've been working on the railroad
I think Harriet Tubman was courageous because being an underground construction worker was very dangerous. That is why I think she was courageous.
Joy of Parenting
Having a child is not all that bad; they bring like some kind of undesirable happiness to a parent that really cares.
Only 75% of people from Mass. are white.
The black buy represents the stereotype given to African Americans, which is that every African American wears Jordan sneakers and cares a lot about them. The white guy represents the stereotype given to Caucasians which is that everyone from Massachusetts is a Caucasian.
Kardashians, take note.
Divorce rates are going to be lower if you are not getting married.
