A very strange thing has been happening to me for the past few weeks. On occasion, I find myself beset with massive stomach pain. At first I thought it was just a flu or something, but it felt extremely different in some regards. It's sort of hard to explain, but today, I was nearly unable to move from the pain ( Read more... )

Huh. About what I expected. Unfortunately, I may have shot up a few points this past year, but them's the breaks.

The Life Experience Test
Overall, you have partaken in 107 out of 174 possible life experiences.
Your average life experience score is therefore 61%.

The average score is 51%, making your experiences more than 78% of the people who ( Read more... )

I will one day be one of those wise old can-asians that people pay top dollar for incense, crystals and a psychic reading.

- Emm GrynerI wonder if in my own life, the number of times I've given the "You'll fail if you continue to act like a whore" speech count as psychic readings. Never mind the fact that I've seemed to have 100% accuracy with ( Read more... )

One of my main issues of contention with the entire "hope and change" rhetoric that categorizes this past political season is this:

It's easier for people to feel good about people doing good, rather than for people to actually do good when they're feeling good.

Apparently today was a slow news day, despite all the fracus surrounding the government baiout of Wall Street (which I'm admittedly sort of on the fence about) and "President" Ahmad-do-whatever launching another rhetorical tirade against the United States.

Yes, today was a slow news day because the top story on CNN is that Clay Aiken is gayWow. I ( Read more... )

I like to talk, as some people say. That being said, I'm rendered pretty much speechless by the following comment I just read on CNN's "Political Ticker ( Read more... )

What the Greatest Generation handed down to us -- the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved -- the baby boomers, oblivious and self-indulgent to the end, have frittered away.The worst part? If I identified who it's from, I fear I may get strung up in the ( Read more... )

OK, I got a confession to make.

It's a pretty big one, I think, so it's under the cut for the squeamish.

( You are totally not ready for this. )

How do elephants hug?

What could have arguably been a horrible day today ended up being a prety good one, thanks in part to the kind caring words of a few really great people I know.

Funny that.