What are you scared of?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Fear, itself.
Also, Exploding Peeps. LINK: Peeps in microwave.
honestly I’m scared I’ll not make enough money by blogging to survive… and since my visa is quite restrictive it’s not like I can just go get a crappy job flipping burgers or something… whew.
But somehow I never let fear overwhelm me. Makes me human though…
Pax
you and me, both.
Do you have a visa?
WORDS that are typed in ALL CAPITAL letters that are found on NSA keyword lists.
Oh and bilious, bristly bloggers.
They are slithy toves and borogoves.
Mimsy, were they?
We are very high in google on Baloney recipes. That is kinda scary.
did something like that happen?
That is very scary. I wonder who could have done such a thing.
Boo, I was just clicking on the ads and got this message for the “4 rooms free” dish ad:
Error : -Invalid Offer ,Please contact site owner about this!
So, I’m contacting “site owner.” Unless it means that site. Oh, I’m so confused.
Same thing happens with Overstock.com.
I’ll reinstall them and let you know when I’m done … they do that sometimes … I don’t understand why.
Will e-mail them later and ask what’s up. I also have trouble with the iTunes links — sometimes they open ITunes and sometimes they don’t.
Try them now. I reinstalled the code, and tried them.
I’ll check all the other ads too.
Please let me know if you run into any problems.
(btw, we don’t get anything for clicks on those, just sales … HOWEVER, it’s very helpful to me to see which ads people click on the most so I can judge which ads might be most effective.)
THANK YOU!
ah. thank you. Susan is in charge of those types of thingies. She is getting her car fixed, I think. I’m let her know that the link is broken.
Is that one of her official titles?
Superintendent of Thingies.
It is now.
She can handle it. She fixed a similar problem with a Netflix ad before Christmas so I could order Netflix for my daughter and the site would get credit for it.
Commitment. Or of being committed. Take your pick.
i asked my boyfriend that very question this morning
its going to be our topic of conversation tonite too
im not afraid of many things….when you overcome obstacle after obstacle you learn not to sweat ther little stuff and its all little stuff….i have some economic fears mainly beacause i am being forced to quit my favorite all time job and the one that made me the most money ever…but i have a real estate license so i can fall back on that….unfortunately the market sucks and my license is in jersey so i will have to commute or move…and i really like living in delaware…but these are such little things….my main fears are about my kids…the older one has bad health and the younger one is a teen and doing stupid things…i fear for them….for their futures…esp if i am not around for them….not that i can do much for them now other than worry….the youngest one is now driving….my heart jumps every time the phone rings late at night….people should not be allowed to drive till they are 30…all the other things i am afraid of like flying and terrorism and the environmental disaster we are heading for….are so out of my control i just logically put the fear away….thats really it isnt it? fearing things that are out of our control…and what isnt out of our control?
Health problems. ‘Nuff said.
I just got back from a week in Puerto Vallarta with my extended family, half of whom live in Mexico City, Guanajuato, and León. So hopefully we avoided the worst pitfalls of being gringos in a tourist zone.
I did not read a newspaper nor turn on a TV the entire time. Instead, I took my nephews Javier and José Pablo out with my son Darwin seaward every morning to continue our dedicated study of sandcastle engineering and boogie-boarding.
I’m your standard white American exurb-dweller (sorry, BooMan, there’s not much of the day-to-day scary in Boulder), so the mixing of the two cultures in our family was an entirely healthy reality jolt for me. I get one of these at least twice a year. And my Spanish continues to improve.
I know it will be minutes before The Fear returns, at least in the large, as I am reminded of the evils of King George. But not right now. I hope you’re all having a great week. 2006 is our year.
I’m afraid of what Cheney has planned for the 2008 presidential election (or lack thereof) – oh, and you know he has a plan.
And I’m also afraid that the citizens of the US will accept our president saying a big FU to the constitution – because he has made them afraid.
In the last open thread sbj linked to an excllent op-ed by Robert Steinback that contained this quote:
Who would have remembered Patrick Henry had he written, “What’s wrong with giving up a little liberty if it protects me from death?”
I am afraid that my move is disintergrating with delays in everything, from electricity to water connection and including phone connection which is now delayed until power delay is completed.
So I may very well be moving into a void, with no internet connection for who knows how long. Now I do need a cell phone.
Whatever will I do.
Take a deep breath, go for a walk or out to luch or something just to get away from it for a bit. I deal with the idiots that connect utilities on a daily basis here at my job managing the apartment complex. I swear sometimes they just don’t give a damn how they inconvenience the customer. That they can say “We will be there between 9am and 5pm is absurd. Who the hell can wait all day for them. I moved from one apartment to another just up a flight of stairs last year and it took SBC three days to get my connection. I ordered it switched two weeks in advance just so that wouldn’t happen.Sorry you are having such troubles Diane.Hopefully it will all be staightened out by the end of the day.
Well thanks Aloha, not a glitch from the companies but a glitch from the planner which in the case is the owner who is my ex….so we can’t have power till power pole is in, “hole is just being dug today””…then you know has to get an inspection, then they connect the power and then telephone can connect the telephone and dsl. I told telephone when I called for services that property was unimproved and they told me no problem, worker would advise when he came out, he came out and said, you need power pole first.
Why you ask, didn’t this all get done 2 months ago when plan of move was first hatched, my question exactly, well it turns out plans for all the things didn’t get started till first of Dec. and are still lagging along.
I am taking it all pretty well, all things considered, and have resigned myself to living primative for a week or two…wish I would have been given the planning job, but no, not until the end.
Thanks for the kind thoughts Aloha and have a good day.
I try hard to stay out of fear which is so difficult living under this fascist government. There’s a saying in AA Fear+Fuck Everything And Run! I did that for too long and am unwilling to live in fear. I must stay aware and well informed and do whatever I am capable of to protect my family, friends and the innocents of this world. I will fight to the death for our rights and liberties and the Constitution but I refuse to be afraid. That is what “they” want. I refuse!
Remember the words that stood out from everything else in 1984 because they scared the crap out of me:
So my room 101 is this: Suddenly one day I wake up and find out that, even though I’ve worked as a tech contractor for the past 10 years and am pretty good at the stuff I do, I can’t get a job anymore because I’ve hit a particular age. Whether that age is 60 or 55 or has already passed and I don’t know it yet, I have no way of knowing. I am hoping to land a non-contract (i.e. permanent) job before that happens, just so I’ll have the security of knowing that I won’t have to look for work when I hit that glass ceiling.
If this country had rational health care policies and we owned our house, we could make do on one of our incomes; but universal health care has eluded us so far and we can’t move into the house we are buying until one of our best friends dies, which we’re in no hurry for. (She is selling the house to us and one of the conditions is, she gets to live there as long as she is able.) Since we’re type II diabetics and I have a family history of heart problems, not having insurance is not an option.
I keep hoping I could support myself by freelance writing and programming, but it ain’t happened yet. sigh
Rational fears as of late: Not being able to support myself on my own… fear of not finding a permanent job, or of crunching the numbers and finding out my temporary one isn’t going to cut it; fear of getting sick and not having health insurance (which my parents, god bless them, are helping me out with at the moment); fear of being an adult who cannot take care of herself; fear of having to ask for help if I might ever need it; fear of where this country is headed…
Irrational fears as of late: Plummeting off of a bridge in my car into the water; fear of driving at high speeds on the highway (I actually had to get off at a random exit on my way to CT for the holidays, cuz I felt so odd. I couldn’t continue to drive like that. I’m prone to anxiety attacks and all… I so fear having a debilitating one while driving. Fuck.) I fear my lil Jasper doggie girl dying… though she is alive and well, so is also old. I can’t imagine how I am going to get through that.
That all said, I don’t live in fear. I fight it. I will not live by being afraid. Fuck that.
this question was asked. I am afraid that the children I see at play outside my window, and those far away, will not have the chance to know so many of the beautiful things life offers, from the joy of learning, to the wonder of love, the mysteries of watching their own children grow.
And my worst fear is that it is too late, and my fear for the children is not so much a fear, but a simple but profound sadness.
I’ve noticed that same sad resignation becoming more prevalent. It’s not a fear but a realization that others’ fears can overpower the efforts of hope.
And each of us has the power to control what we do. That we can count on.
We can hope that by example, we can make others think, and that could save one life. 🙂
another term of Repugs……
That GW Bush has created millions of terrorists that would have never have existed, by invading Iraq and saying assholic things like “This Crusade, the war on Terrorism is going to take a while…” using a loaded term that recalls the Christians’ Medieval wars against Muslims in the so-called Holy Land. Osama’s followers were manageable until GW came along and helped create millions of young people that will continue to plaque the United States for Hundreds of years. I fear that suicide bombers will become common in the US. I fear for every generation to come and I fear we have become the enemy.