I wonder when evolution will be taught in schools. They preface the shit out of you and say that it is just a theory (as if it is just as likely as the bible). Has no one pointed out to certain folks that the term "theory" is not synonymous with "hypothesis?" We say "theory" when explaining a certain process that consists of multiple processes. It ( Read more... )

There are some books you just know you need to own before you ever read them. This is why I bought Brave New World before I ever read it. I figured that I'd read the story and then come back some time later for all of the essays about the story which comprise the "revisited" portion of the book. It took a few years, but I finally got around to it ( Read more... )

The New Yorker has entered a swirling nexus of redundancy. It is one of the last reliable outlets for literary criticism, and they have decided to exhume a classic that is more often revered than any work. I concede that translation is imperative in regards to foreign literature; so when I saw there was a piece on the new translation of Tolstoy's ( Read more... )

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It is ironic for me to say this, but I am trying to not be negative. I am a rather depressed person, and I tend to see the more disappointing aspects of life as being the way things really are...however, I can't help but notice what happens to people in their 20's. Everyone becomes so jaded and distrusting and gaurded. Everyone gets burned at some ( Read more... )

I notice that all of my friends have one quirk which annoys the group. One is too sensitive, and another is argumentative, and another is sometimes too obnoxious...everybody has some trait that everyone complains about. There are these little spats between two friends that are really over nothing, but they continue because each person is ( Read more... )

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LJing or blogging is a weird activity. I am not sure how people perceive it. You think what you have to say is so important that you post it for others? You think people want to hear about your life? You think that you somehow enlighten people ( Read more... )

Philip Larkin said, "Life is first fear, then boredom ( Read more... )

Why is it that political opinion and personal feelings are so intertwined? Most people, when it comes to religion, will respect someone's differing viewpoint and will even think it interesting to have met a person who subscribes to a different outlook. Most decent human beings of various philosophical persuasions will adopt a live and let live ( Read more... )