Lordy, rum does not like me, not at all, no ma'am ( Read more... )

The floor of the room is sand, iridescent sand akin to some deep Pacific water beast. There is light, I'm assuming it's around midday. I go to sit down at my computer and I notice from where I usually sit six snakes slither out of the sand. Each snake is unique in color, none natural. My initial reaction is fear but that quickly abates as the ( Read more... )

After a month of sobriety Thursday was my day of celebration, a turning point to new vistas; at least that is what I had hoped. The best laid plans of mice and men, eh? Suffice it to say that my dear and ever sober brother had to come to my aid at three in the morning, again. I fell off the wagon, I fell off the wagon hard. The old proverb of ( Read more... )

It is the height of arrogance to assume that one adheres to either wholly conservative or wholly liberal ideology in political or social thinking. Not only is it arrogant but grossly ignorant to judge someone on a specific view in a specific context. As a case in point, I am frequently hearing from people that religion is inherently repressive/ ( Read more... )

I refuse these memes most of the time, in fact, all the time. Tonight I shall indulge but I will not tag anyone, thus this meme ends here=P ( Read more... )

My good friend Bradley recently moved up north, so he could be closer to work. I made fun of him for moving to what I consider the "great frozen north" or "half way to Dallas". When I consider campus a long drive north, where Brad moved is simple beyond the pale. Yesterday we decided to go see Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new ( Read more... )

The fast is going well, I am phasing back in meat and dairy. In all truthfulness the lack of cheese has been the most difficult thing during this fast. The lack of alcohol has been very illuminating; hopefully once I fall back off the wagon I can keep the consumption habits to a healthy level and not a drowning demons level (since, as we all know, ( Read more... )

"To claim purity on the basis of good intentions alone isn't virtue -- it's complacence. " Camille Paglia ( Read more... )

From September 2006 to September 2007 the US coast guard seized a record $4.7 billion worth of cocaine (source:  http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0626874320071207). I wondered how they arrived at this dollar value. They basically counted ( Read more... )

9AM: Restatement of assumptions ( Read more... )