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There's a guy sitting a table over from me at Bollo's complaining about an instructor who pulled the following stunt with ("not mandatory") homework: After a half-hour of lecture, she proclaimed that those students who'd done their homework would stay for the remainder of class to go over it with her and get it correct; the rest of the class would ( Read more... )

Blast it. Anyone who knows me can guess the spark of excitement and extreme disappointment i felt upon seeing this headline. I was so hopeful ( Read more... )

I guess i'm something of a cruel-humor activist. I haven't resigned myself to giving up on humankind, though i've certainly driven all faith in the species from my mind. I don't know how i learned that people would not be swayed by argument, pressure, or any variant of the traditional religious conversion tactics. (Perhaps i just endured too many ( Read more... )

For a few years now i've refined my distaste for religion from a childhood disinterest in the fairy tales of recent millennia (unfair in contrast to my growing appreciation for those of antiquity) to a a refined and scrutinized intolerance for the stunting and controlling role faith (meaning baseless belief) currently plays in human affairs on all ( Read more... )

OK, so i just reread through a certain IM conversation. I'm disturbed, saddened, and remorseful that i find myself able to relate more to Mike than to Davan, or even to this guy.

So, with the understanding that nothing can be undone, i offer a sincere and milkable* apology to everyone at whom i've ever verbally, vocally, or textually exploded ( Read more... )