This looks like it'll mostly be a place to put long, interesting entries that are really worth reading. Meanwhile, a more flowy and updated blog will be sitting at http://www.savedfastcool.com/ It looks better, too :-P

So, how do we make sense of pain? I mean, in general, pain is your body's way of telling you something's wrong. You're getting burned? Pain. Hand pulls back, not so much pain, not in danger anymore. When the pain subsides completely, chances are you're on the fast track to recovery ( Read more... )

If you make a mistake, do you deserve the consequences? If you let one thing lead you to another, and you find yourself somewhere you did not want to be, do you deserve to be there ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?pagewanted=1&hpRead more... )

Before you start reading, be warned: this is a really frakking long post. It represents ideas that I've been thinking about for about a quarter of the time this week, and that's a whole hell of a lot of thinking time ( Read more... )

"I too easily comply with people's expectations of me," I said in an earlier post. Back when I made a few posts of interest before Katrina hit ( Read more... )

So, I figured it was about time for a real post. That, and I've been thinking quite a bit about the subject matter I'm about to write about, culminating with a conversation I had with John today ( Read more... )

So, today, to treat the issue of different kinds of fun. Now, I'm sure I've treated this in a half dozen other scattered posts in various places here before, but hey, one single concentrated effort to do it couldn't be too bad ( Read more... )

So, to follow up with my promise to address my dislike of shows designed literally to make fun of stupidity by being stupid ( Read more... )

Randomly now, I'm thinking of friends. I'm a bit of a loner, as most will attest, with the occasional very very good friend (John for the past few years now) with whom I can speak of most things. But still, I'm not a prolific friend-maker, and I consistently make sure I don't rely on anyone. Why? In one word, betrayal. Twice, I was (in a not-as- ( Read more... )