Author Archives: Joe Larabell

Nirvana for the masses…

Posted on 2009/08/26 by Joe Larabell

Ya know… when organized religion gets hold of a good idea, more often than not the idea becomes perturbed in such a way as to ensure the ultimate indispensability of the organization formed to promulgate the idea. Miguel de Molinos, … Continue reading →

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Politics as usual in Japan

Posted on 2009/07/03 by Joe Larabell

Well… it’s erection time again in Tokyo. Oops… I meant “election” (get your mind out of the gutter for once, will you?). How do I know, given that foreigners can’t vote in public elections? I know because my otherwise quiet … Continue reading →

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News as Entertainment

Posted on 2009/06/04 by Joe Larabell

I was just reading an editorial article on the recent “rise-and-fall” of media reports concerning the novel A/H1N1 outbreak. The author seems to confuse a lack of panic with “scoffing” at the alarmist stance taken by the media at the … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with it all…

Posted on 2009/05/28 by Joe Larabell

When I consider my age in “Internet years”, it feels like I’ve been around for quite a while. I graduated High School in 1974 and college in 1978. Back then, the Internet was something only the grad students in the … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on 2009/05/27 by Joe Larabell

Welcome to my personal social experiment. Isn’t that what all blogs start out as (and what most of them still are)? This evening I stumbled across a forum on a relatively arcane subject (which, for now, shall be unnamed, for … Continue reading →

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