i still cannot get my head around this disaster. 5 million are homeless. That's all of Washington and Montana.

I know I posted earlier about moving to the tropics, but this one is for a different reason. I seriously need to move to a warmer climate because my joints are not enjoying this weather. The other day I was commiserating with an octogenarian about joint pain. Also, no joke, I can tell if it is going to rain by the pain in my knee. Arthritis sucks, ( Read more... )

Final tomorrow, 8 AM. I've been studying it up in the library for far too long. I have all these facts running around in my brain, and with my professor's permission, tomorrow at 10:30 I can start forgetting them.

For instance, I can tell you that:

• in the last 20 years the incarceration rate in the US has increased by 400 per cent.
• the US has ( Read more... )

I sotole this article from commiesmurfette
Missionary lizzards = Dinosaurs

This article is frustrating and funny at the same time.

"Not even one instance of evolution has ever been confirmed," Ham says.This article reminds me ( Read more... )

From the NY Times Op-Ed by Friedman today

" Here's a trivia question for you: Who is the deputy Treasury secretary? It's a pretty important job, but I have no clue who it is ( Read more... )

According to UNAIDS estimates, there were 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million children living with HIV at the end of 2004, and during the year 4.9 million new people became infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. 95% of the total number of ( Read more... )

tempting thought of the day

quit school, got to massage school, get a job in a tropical place at a rediculously expensive resort, and read lots of books. Sounds like a good life to me.

great op-ed in the NY times today about powell leaving and how we're all screwed.
Exercpts:
In a conversation with the British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, Mr. Powell once referred in frustration to Mr. Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz as "[expletive] crazies," according to a recent British biography of Tony Blair.

On North Korea, Iraq ( Read more... )

Weirdest thing ( Read more... )