Now that LOST is over, we can render the awards to those characters that best exemplified things that I feel deserve an award.

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Having things a little slow in the office has lent me to start throwing down on forum posts in various places, one of my favorites is being one of the atheists on Washington Posts On Faith forum (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/Read more... )

The Washington Post had an interesting case study conducted on a few clergy members who had lost their belief in God over the years, and yet still remained in their original places, being unable to easily reconcile being intellectually honest and eat ( Read more... )

Went up to Ohio for my niece Reese's 4th birthday, and discovered they they make robot hamsters now.  Reese got 3 of them, along with hamster balls and cars and the like, perhaps a much better solution to the ever present fear of hamster implosion than the living versions.  I also picked up The Lost Books of the Odyssey, which makes me think it ( Read more... )

Its always funny seeing your home town turn up in the news.  Its even stranger when it turns up in the blog of one of the New Atheists, PZ Meyers ( Read more... )

Its obvious that the US seems to have a problem with spending more than it takes in.  And a lot of times, rather than taxing necessities, which hits the poor more than the rich, we resort to taxing the luxuries, which hits the rich more, and makes them angry and vote for republicans who seem more inclined to continue borrowing from China.
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I finally got around to Avatar, ( and I over thought it, quite a bit )

So I was thinking about Braveheart, and how one of the characters got hit with an arrow, and he had it pulled out and cauterized with a burning brand.  I've seen this a fair bit, along with people pouring spirits on their wounds, and I had to wonder, did people really know to use hot irons or alcohol to clean wounds before germ theory?  Especially ( Read more... )

So, I've been ignoring the LJ updates for a while, so I figured I should post a little more about this years Trip to Germany, post clusterfuckery. ( Read more... )

So, our initial plan was to visit Salzburg, Austria for a few days before Christmas, renting a van so that Ellen's brother and his wife and kids, and Ellen and I could all take a single vehicle down from Dresden. First kink, the kids got a bit sick, and we weren't sure if they'd be well by the day, but fortunately they did, and we were on the road ( Read more... )