"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should ( Read more... )

If horror movies have crossed the line into "torture porn," then I think it's also accurate to say that once-respectable news has crossed the line into uber-sensationalist "news porn".   I remember a time when CNN was the only cable news network, and it conducted itself with at least some amount of dignity and intelligence.  Nowadays, I check their ( Read more... )

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"Music is the new pornography" - Jimmy Swaggart

I went to see the New Pornographers at the 9:30 Club last night.  I'd bought the tickets more or less on a whim, thinking it'd been a while since I'd seen any live music.  A week ago, I only knew one song of theirs - "The New Face of Zero and One" which my older sister had introduced me to via a mixed ( Read more... )

Mr. Darcy?  In love with Miss Eliza??  I am shocked and appalled.

I think she should have married that lovely Mr. Collins when she had the chance...

 
The Brisconator forwarded this to a select group of Whovians.  It has some spoilers from the most recent season, so be warned.

It will require a spirited defense on behalf of secularism, but I'll have to put some thought into it...

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=877

I'm not convinced, but this is pretty interesting.  And it's one of the few explanations of Kant that I've been able to comprehend.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20071017/cm_csm/ydsouza;_ylt=Auh1nkiLFlTO1MG2fuvd4hH9wxIF

Max was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of four years had been insufficient to make Sandy understand his character...

I've seen the phrase "torture porn" used a couple times now to describe a new genre of horror movies.  You've probably seen ads for them - "Saw", "The Hills Have Eyes", "Captivity", "Hostel".  They seem to be everywhere these days, though I've never had any desire to see them.  They also seem to be aimed at a younger audience (rated M for immature ( Read more... )

Hello everyone in Livejournalland,
First off, thanks to everyone who came to Sandy and my's wedding.  Um, mine and Sandy's wedding.  Sandy and mines's wedding??

Thanks to everyone who came to the wedding of Sandy and, um, myself. (argh)  We had a great time, and hope you all did too.  Sandy is currently buried under a pile of thank you notes, but ( Read more... )