A Funny Thing Happened in the Forum

By Nicholas Sarwark | July 20, 2006 |

The International Stoic Forum, that is. A certain provocateur posted a message about how we forum members were all “peace-nick pacifist care-bears.” Certain members were not familiar with the term “care bear” and its usage in Internet parlance. Which led to this hilarious reply from Robin (emphasis mine): Paul wrote:> — In stoics@yahoogroups.com, “alicorn1976” wrote:>>…

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The Onion: Satire site or Delphic oracle?

By Nicholas Sarwark | September 15, 2005 |

On February 18, 2004, The Onion published a story entitled, “Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades,” describing a fictional Gillette executive’s response to the Schick Quattro, a razor that offered four blades to the Gillette Mach 3‘s paltry three. You think it’s crazy? It is crazy. But I don’t give a shit. From now on,…

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Harlan McCraney: Presidential Speechalist

By Nicholas Sarwark | August 16, 2005 |

The power to craft words into moving speeches is an awesome power, especially when you’re crafting speeches for the President of the United State. Harlan McCraney is that master crafter. As an aside, Andy Dick is quite funny in The Aristocrats, which you should see. Yours truly,Mr. X …me talk pretty one day…

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Corpus Delicti

By Nicholas Sarwark | February 24, 2005 |

According to the ‘Lectric Law Library Lexicon, “corpus delicti” is defined as: The body of the offence; the essence of the crime. It was a general rule not to convict unless the corpus delicti can be established, that is, until the dead body has been found. Instances have occurred of a person being convicted of…

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