When [Pope Benedict XVI] was asked about the rights of animals in a 2002 interview, he said, “That is a very serious question. At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures . . . Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed ( Read more... )

Is there anyone who enjoys just having a good time playing music and would like to join me on a music adventure of starting up a band to play covers of punk songs? No original songs. Not punk covers of songs: covers of punk songs (unless ther's a really good reason to do so ( Read more... )

I just finished printing all of my thesis papers! I'm going to start burning a bajillion copies of my slides on CD. It's almost all over. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it's brilliantFABULOUS!

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Easter is coming up, and you know what that means: a ton of chocolate (wait, there's a religious holiday too?) Well here's something to consider ( Read more... )

EDIT: There's been a bunch of stuff lately that I've been excited to hear by people I normally wouldn't be excited to hear from and the end product didn't really thrill me as much as the description did. I think it has a lot to do with hearing Rick Rubin is working on it and knowing his history, but I'm starting to suspect that it's more that Rick ( Read more... )

Guess who woke up groggy from a lack of sleep from getting sick overnight and lower back pain?

And the lower back pain is on account of getting rear-ended yesterday.