I just got beaten up.  On my way home from withinadyingsun's bachelor party--I was feeling tired so I decided to go home early--I stopped at McDonald's to get a bite to eat.  I don't normally go there if there's a crowd, but I figured I could wait.  I got to be the next person in line when a bunch of local high school students appeared.  One of them walked in ( Read more... )

All psychological evidence shows that witness testimonies are extremely unreliable. The fact that this man's death sentence is based entirely upon such testimony (never mind the fact that seven such testimonies are on record for changing their stories after the fact) is completely unconscionable. I have no idea if signing the petition below will ( Read more... )

Your result for The Imaginary-Job Employment Test...
The Rugged Adventurer!

21 Humor, 25 Skill and 22 Morality!

Multiple choice. Why did it have to be... Multiple Choice?

Your high score in Skill and moderate scores in Humor and Morality qualify you for a career as a rugged adventurer! You'll need some distinctive attire, an unusual weapon, and ( Read more... )

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It would appear McCain & al. have been reading drivel like The Secret and think that the nation's problems could be solved with just a bit of positive thinking! I blame Oprah.

From the Introduction to The Ethics of Spinoza by T. S. Gregory:Unimpeded will, which simultaneously achieves its end, and infinitely possesses its object, we call not will but love (amor) and then as the will suffers no frustration we feel as if we are not exerting it at all but rather were instruments of the beloved object or 'modes' of its ( Read more... )

It often seems like there is little to be patriotic about in this country.  And national pride has always seemed a bit absurd to me.  But there are many great things about the United States.  Anyone who has traveled can see that.  And Woody Guthrie is (or rather, was) one of those things:

(Read until the end.  You probably don't remember all the ( Read more... )

From: Sibal Sulivan
God dag,

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Turned somersaults in the air, plumped down. When and retraced
their steps on poirot's early cases have deceived us, but
we began to be afraid that had given fido's history more
fully, informed minutes harold was back, in ( Read more... )

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