For those not in the loop, the Minuteman Project is a militia of private citizens who are taking posts along the Mexican border in Cochise County to watch out for illegal border crossers and then call the Border Patrol. So far they've had great success with no allegations of abuse ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write a post about what I hate about bullshit for a couple of weeks. I was really going to do it on Sunday when I found out that Derrida was playing at the Loft. I looked up Derrida on Wikipedia and found out that even professional bullshit artists aka "leading 20th century philosophers" consider Derrida to be full of shit. ( Read more... )

http://photos.yahoo.com/jessicaann_420

album 03-05 includes:

Stefan receiving his diploma from exercise class

Stefan exploring the new refrigerator

Stefan climbing a chair

Stefan eating an avocado by himself

a scorpion savagely murdered by Daddy

This question is specifically for the parents, though if you have nieces and nephews you're also qualified to answer.

How, and in which ways, should I be concerned about what reasonbaby sees on TV at his current age of 14 months? And if he's asleep in my arms, does it matter to him what I'm watching on TV ( Read more... )

Check this out ( Read more... )

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=518039

HST lived on his own terms, and I couldn't imagine him dying any other way but on his own terms.

Read Greenspan's prepared testimony.I missed the last couple of Congresscritters but I saw almost the whole thing. The Republicans were predictable, just looking for support for Bush. Except for Ron Paul, who was predictable in quoting from a famous free-market economist of the 1960s named Alan Greenspan and raking Greenspan over the coals for ( Read more... )

Yesterday Greenspan testified before the Senate Banking Committee and chewed up Schumer while thanking all the other Democrats on the committee for agreeing with him on the fundamental points that Social Security is totally doomed ( Read more... )

This goes out to everyone who uses an LJ scheme which kicks me fully into their own journal as soon as I post and then I have to make an effort to get back to my own journal.

Why do you do that?

I really want to know.

Thanks to knosos and tupelo for establishing February 14 as the annual celebration of SCIENCE DAY

As Arlo says, if three people say it, they make think it's an organization...