Don’t over use alliteration. In fact if you don’t have it built into your name like James Joyce, don’t use it at all.

…Or was it that he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of language many colored and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?

the troubling odors of long corridors…

…a din of meaningless words drove his reasoned thoughts hither and thither confusedly.

James Joyce

Poetry is no less mysterious than the other elements of the earth. A lucky line here and there should not make us think any higher of ourselves, for such lines are the gift of Chance or of the Spirit; only the mistakes are our own. I hope the reader may find in my pages something that merits being remembered; in this world, beauty is so common.

Jorge Luis Borges

If he is so smart why is he dead? and another thing, how can we be evolving and still have reality TV? Huh? I wish evolution would weed out a few more reality TV producers and also Flava Flav.

It is true that Islam constitutes a systematic and coherent ideology, just like liberalism and communism, with its own code of morality and doctrine of political justice. The appeal of Islam is potentially universal, reaching out to all men as men, and not just members of a particular ethnic or national group. And Islam has indeed defeated liberal democracy in many parts of the Islamic world, posing a grave threat to liberal practices even in countries where it has not achieved political power directly. The end of the Cold War in Europe was followed by a challange to the west from Iraq, in which islam was arguably a factor.

Despite the power demonstrated by Islam in its current revival, however, it remains the case that this religion has virtually no appeal outside those areas that were culturally Islamic to begin with. The days of Islam’s cultural conquests, it would seem, are over: it can win back lapsed adherents, but has no resonance for young people in Berlin, Tokyo, or Moscow. And while nearly a billion people are Islamic -one fifth the worlds population- they cannot challenge liberal democracy on its own territory on the level of ideas. Indeed, the Islamic world would seem more vulnerable to liberal ideas in the long run than the reverse, since such liberalism has attracted numerous and powerful Muslim adherents over the past century and a half. Part of the reason for the current, fundamentalist revival is the strength of the perceived threat from liberal, Western values to traditional Islamic societies.

- Francis Fukuyama 1992

First: Find a solid colored t-shirt. I chose my white, Fruit of the Loom, tagless tee because they don’t itch my face when I’m trying to kill someone.

Second: Peer menacingly out the neck hole, making sure that the tag is facing down.

Third: Tie the sleeves in a death defying knot behind your head.

Fourth: Tuck the collar up under and pull it down as far as possible so that your shiny forehead is showing as little as possible.

Fifth: Roll the bottom tag area in and pull it over your nose. This is when you will notice whether or not the shirt was washed in gain.

Now you are a Ninja. Strike a deadly pose and remember you are now legally required to kick ass.