W.E. is on Vacation

For those of you that rely upon W.E. for your daily enlightenment, I hate to break it to you, but WhiteEyebrows has gone on this year’s grown up vacation.  He’s been longing for a vacation that isn’t to his mommy’s house, so he is taking it this week.  We are all so happy for him.

But now, what will we all do?  Now that our W.E. is gone? 

AH HA HA HA (evil cackle) !!!

Don’t worry, folks, TLS is on the case! I have commandeered whiteeybrows.com, and W.E. himself doesn’t even know it.  He will probably discover this when his desperate search for a Starbucks with free Wireless Internet becomes fruitful.   (Because he is with Tio on this trip and we all know that Tio is too cheap to pay the $15 a day for in room internet.  (Sorry, Tio, jabs come naturally sometimes.) )

Just you wait Henry Higgins…. Just you wait

(Oh yeah, you may want to reply to this post, saying how excited you are about my guest blogging, so that W.E. doesn’t delete my username and login when he sees this 🙂 )

The Ultimate Self-Reflexive Blog

When I posted on my facebook status that I was having trouble coming up with an original thought for my blog, I got some really interesting responses.  Most of them encouraged me to be self-reflexive… that is, to talk about blogging, originality, thought, or even…ferrets.  (OK, so ferrets have nothing to do with blogging or self-reflexivity.)

However, I was taught in school that answering the question by simply restating the question is a cop-out, and that you can’t use a word in its own definition.  So why, when I say “I can’t find an original thought for my blog”, would people respond to talk about “originality”, “thought” or “blogging”?  Hmm..

But, as you are my readership, I will indulge you this once, and talk about this little blog addiction enterprise endeavor.

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Will America’s Real Enemy Please Stand Up?

Seven years ago, terrorists flew airplanes at us thinking that they could drastically disrupt the United States economic and governmental systems with their actions.  If nothing else, they hoped to send a strong signal to America that it had enemies, and that not everyone in the world approved of our way of life.

In the weeks and months after that tragedy, in spite of the country’s mourning, we proved that we would not be threatened, and we would not live in fear.  We would continue.  Markets opened, the government continued to operate, and the American way continued.  We proved, once again, that no external threat or influence could severely disrupt our way of life for long, and that we would confront our enemies wherever they lived to secure our future.

This last week, however, has unmasked a much more dangerous threat to our American way of life.  It turns out that our worst enemy hasn’t been a bunch of terrorists in a training camp half a world away, turns out the biggest threat to our very way of life has been sitting right under our noses in downtown New York City, parading around in dark suits and expensive shoes.

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