http://blog.shrub.com Because we care about stuff Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:38:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-25_449 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-25_449#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:00:44 +0000 tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-25_449 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-11-25_449/feed 1 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-26_186 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-26_186#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:14:29 +0000 tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-26_186 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-03-26_186/feed 8 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-22_94 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-22_94#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:07:23 +0000 tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/?p=94 Continue reading →]]> http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-22_94/feed 0 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-20_93 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-20_93#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:27:26 +0000 tekanji http://blog.shrub.com/?p=93 War on Christmas. Because, you know, Christians in America are an oppressed group. Unlike Jews, Muslims, pagans of various stripes, or atheists. It's not like their God is in the pledge that children have to speak every day... oh, wait, it is. Well, it's not like the majority of their religious holidays are national holidays... oh, wait, they are. Uh. Er. They're oppressed, really! I mean, prayer in school has been outlawed, evolution is taught in science class, the god-given commandments are not allowed to be in public buildings, and now... now they have to put up with "PC" phrases such as "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" being said alongside "Merry Christmas". If this continues, people of other faiths (or lack of faith) might start thinking that their beliefs are equal to those of the God Warriors! I, myself, became a casualty of this vicious war when I was dealing with a credit card issue just a few days ago. I was on the phone with the representative and after we had resolved everything she said, "Ha... Merry Christmas." I replied, "And a Happy Holidays to you." Truth be told, what I really had wanted to say was, "Where the hell do you get off assuming that I celebrate Christmas?" But, really, it might not have been the rep's fault. From the way she started saying something else, it sounds like it's company policy. And that, my friends, is just not cool. Continue reading →]]> http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2005-12-20_93/feed 6