The police are supposed to 'protect and serve' the public. The public...meaning everyone. Yesterday's May Day demonstrations in LA show that the police are now being used to terrorize and oppress the public, the very people who they are supposed to serve.

This may probably the most important video you'll see this year.

I just rediscovered the crazy joy that is Improv Everywhere. For example, we have the Amazing Hypnotist, Redux.

As seen here:


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I happen to be pro-life, and pro-dignity in a lot of ways. For example, I don't condone of torture, the death penalty, murder, war (murder writ large), or eating meat, under any circumstances ( Read more... )

How do we recognize anything? People, places, memories...those few key things that are indelibly part of our lives, that seems to be the essence of experience ( Read more... )

Taking my Mom to the ER for a potential hernia operation. Please send along your well wishes ( Read more... )

It's becoming harder to think of my family as anything but burdens.

Dinesh D'Souza made a point of saying that atheists are not there when bad things happen.

A professor at Virginia Tech begs to differ, thus proving what a Ph.D. in pw0nage looks like. I'm not sure I've ever read such a moving article.

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In honor of those who died April 18, 2007, we have their memory. None of the shooter. Let him be forgotten by time, and let us instead remember and grieve for those who are no longer with usBrian Bluhm ( Read more... )

People matter. Groups do not.

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