i read this book The Jesus Mysteries and saw this documentary The Jesus Who Wasn't There and now I think wow. What if he never existed? There is a strong body of evidence that the powers that be (the ones who write history, i.e. ignore the labor movement, the courage of civil rights workers, the amount of people who died at the Normandy invasion, ( Read more... )

i got some new contacts and glasses, which makes everything so much clearer it is amazing. i keep waiting for my eye to turn red or blurry or itch, and then i remember that i replaced the contacts that I had for 9 months (8 months longer than I should have), and I can see again. i also got my tooths cleaned up real nice ( Read more... )

the only reality TV show should be I'm With Busey. That show was fucking amazing. Especially the discussion of booby traps in the home. Sweet christ.

SHFL.

i just remembered one of my favorite things from consciousness explained while reading about olfaction. in here it says that dogs have 200,000,000 olfactory receptor cells (we have 10 million). anyway, dogs can actually locate the direction of scents and follow the path (i.e. its coming from that corner instead of "this room smells like piss ( Read more... )

i think i am giving up on being a fan of barry bonds. not because it's hard (i relish the arguments), but because he is a cheater and a dick. i still think that since we are vessels of chemical reactions there is no reason we should say glucose is OK but DHEA is not for sports is a ridiculous thing, but what influence do I have ( Read more... )

sometimes i read about the human body and get so fired up about evolution i want to tear someone to pieces. like a creationist. that was hateful. but seriously, these pressures are strong but the rate of change is so slow it seems miraculous that things change. seems.

i want a sandwich.

i am learning so much. kind of. it is very late. or early. i am still studying. it always takes longer than you think, and costs more than you think, and its worse than you think ( Read more... )

God does not have an opinion about patent laws for drugs. Most people would like to see shorter patent windows so they can get essential drugs cheaper (i dont care how much Viagra costs, but AIDS medicine is essential to LIFE). you know who doesnt want that change? pharm companies and some of their investors (the ones who have more money than drug ( Read more... )

oh shit. madison is officially a historical place for me. like driving through palo alto, or visiting my high school, or my old grade school. i only know one person in town (though he is an all-star who made me some bucks last night by sleeping with some Italian dudes ( Read more... )

stephen colbert was amazing. and i mean ridiculous at the White House Press Correspondents thing. www.crooksandliars.com check it out ( Read more... )