Category: baby

05/07/08 01:07 - 53ºF - ID#44258

Name Redux

As of last sunday, Mr. Wiggles has been officially named Ari Nachshon.

Ari is Hebrew for Lion. We named him this because it was a name we could agree upon. Nachshon is from (WIKIPEDIA - Nachshon), a biblical figure who I've always admired since my childhood Rabbi gave a sermon about him doing great things even though he had a lowly name that meant "snake".

Ari is loud. And very, very demanding.

dcoffee writes at 03:41:56 07/18/08 - Comment #37162: Congratulations! Looks like a cutie. Despite being demanding I hope he's cuddly sometimes. I like the name too, it was hard enough choosing a name for our new kitties, I'm not looking forward to naming children.

museumchick writes at 11:50:50 05/11/08 - Comment #34994: That's a perfect name. I always thought Ari would be a good name for a boy!

tinypliny writes at 11:30:02 05/07/08 - Comment #34836: He looks awesome. His name sounds awesome as well.(and I mean it! I am just having a word-variety crisis because of (e:jon) viral video). It somehow sounds very much Indian and not Indian at the same time. :)

metalpeter writes at 06:42:34 05/07/08 - Comment #34821: I was going to make a Joke about if you named him after the Character on Entourage and what is kinda funny is then I read he is loud and Demanding just like the character. On a serious note for a second sometimes people really are like there names or vice versa. I was some place and they had these writings on paper it would say a persons name and then under neath maybe about a page of writing describing the person and a lot of them where right on about people I knew. Of course with things like that you notice the stuff that is spot on and forget the stuff that isn't like them. nice picture by the way.

jenks writes at 02:39:43 05/07/08 - Comment #34801: oh, thanks for posting this- I'd been meaning to ask!
Looks like he has a swollen eye- hope it's ok!!

libertad writes at 02:04:19 05/07/08 - Comment #34799: I have some friends that just named their daughter Aria Madea. I guess I could assume that means lioness?

mrmike writes at 08:52:18 05/07/08 - Comment #34790: Trust me, this is the easy part. And welcome to the world, Ari

drew writes at 08:33:11 05/07/08 - Comment #34788: Cool name. I liked reading about Nachshon (and feel bad that I didn't already know his story.)

lizabeth writes at 01:28:53 05/07/08 - Comment #34782: Ha! That's babies for you - loud and demanding. :)

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Category: politics

05/01/08 12:51 - 56ºF - ID#44209

Same Ol Same Ol

In response to (e:jason,44190) and (e:dcoffee,44207)

Politics has largely been about stuff tangential to real issues since its inception. We've actually progressed quite a bit considering that voters a century and half ago voted for candidates on the quality of their jawlines and candidates would routinely hold drinking parties to ply voters with booze (which is why alcohol sales on election days are banned in some places). And that's why we require a strong education system, because critical thinking is required to ignore the BS and objectively evaluate candidates' pre-political-compromise-plans for dealing with real issues.