Duct Tape Panic Pays Off

In 2003, Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge warned Americans they needed to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting if they wanted to stay safe from a terrorist attack. His advice incited panic and inspired a run on the items. Duct tape and sheeting flew off the shelves as Americans flocked to stores to stock ( Read more... )

I subbed for a coach/science teacher. On her wall was an insulting sarcastic Rules for Life article by some pessimistic bastard. It basically said things like get used to not making 40,000 dollars the first years you're out of high school or just wait until you're a slave to your boss. Ha! Lower class low income fools! Acting like you deserve ( Read more... )

Why did nobody tell me about pics.livejournal.com ?

Meanwhile, the world at large either angers me or depresses me, which is anger without inflection.

You Are the Investigator

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You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker.

You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does.

Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations.

You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it.

What number are you?
I lied ( Read more... )

I just need to read everything ever written by Aristotle, Baudrillard, Camus, Derrida, Descartes, Epicureas, Foucault, Gadamer, Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Kierkegaard, Locke, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Ockham, Orwell, Plato, Popper, Quine, Rorty, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thoreau, Voltaire, and Wittgenstein ( Read more... )

I'm having a somewhat less-than-stellar day.

( My addition to the family dinner conversation after a fourty second pause, following a particular fuckshitdamnhell-filled five minute tangent that started with mention of one of my brother's ex-girlfriends and ended with talk of transvestites. And firedancing. And firedancing with transvestites. )

I have never had braces. My teeth remained relatively straight throughout childhood ( Read more... )

( Wanna read a short story written at 17? )

This pissed me off more than the usual ( Read more... )