Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

People have been conditioned by television and movies to look for the wrong warning signs, and people die as a result.

"There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is ( Read more... )

 So a jury of 12 literally ruled that "no" means "yes" if you're dancing in a bar near video cameras.

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Follow this back to YouTube, there are several links there like this one: www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-sakineh-mohammadi.html

 I sincerely hope I don't have to say this to anyone reading this, but it came up today and this shit really pisses me off. I was trying to play Age of Conan today. For those of you who don't know, an expansion recently came out that included Khitai. Khitai, in the fictional world of Conan, what would become China in the modern world. If you think ( Read more... )

So, you may or may not know (and may or may not care) that I have a birthday coming up. 30 years prettying up this ugly rock with my beautiful face. I'm not actually the sort that gets all hung up on presents, but I've been told by quite a few people over the years that I'm really hard to shop for, so I made up a couple of nerdy wish-lists with ( Read more... )

What I'm about to do, people have been killed for. Seriously.


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I'm against most of the soldiers as well, and you should be as well. Has anyone seen this clip on the news yet? No? So much for the so-called "liberal meadia." If there really was such a thing, wouldn't it be all over this?

So yeah, it's been a while since I actually said anything about what's been going on in my life. Here's the long and short of it ( Read more... )

So, in case you didn't know what was going on, here's the short version: Tina said she'd hold my stuff for me while I was dealing with all this crap with the Army and moving around and blah, blah, blah... so she put it in storage while she was moving, then left it there so it wasn't taking up space in her apartment, no big deal. S while back, I ( Read more... )

OK, so I know a lot of people are reading this:  buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93359Please, please, allow me to educate you people, because the fucking fact-checker for that piece of shit couldn't bother to spend ten seconds on wikipedia ( Read more... )