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Continuing in the same vein
Good to see that Galileo is still giving the Church the finger after all these years.
Heh heh.
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Epiphanic
The last half hour I spent gazing at the nearly full moon through my telescope, feeling great wonder that we walked on this thing, that we explained its motion, that we described its nature, that we discovered its origin.My species amazes me so much sometimes. Tonight, it was in a good way ( Read more... ) -
Last update for a while, damn you, school
I dreamed the night before of a strange world indeed, one where a castle stood protected by an army of spearmen who had mastered a most unusual method of attack. Amassing themselves on the parapet, they would link arm in arm with each other, and, as the enemy army below reached the rampart, the spearmen would uncoil down the wall, rolling over ( Read more... ) -
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Got this from notasfatasmike, my thankless roommate. Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birthday without the year. List 3 cool facts, 2 births, and a death.
January 29 IN HISTORY!
3 facts
1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. He represents the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Twelve years later ( Read more... ) -
Inferno Quiz & a Short History Lesson
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)Very LowLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) ( Read more... ) -
A Bomb Unthinkable of Power - I ♥ LJ drama-lite!
Now hold on here...
Last night cleolinda of Movies in 15 Minutes fame (m15m) made this post here.
Which inspired me to respond with the comment you can see hereMy brother, peering over my shoulder, went off about how "All Your Base is soooo '90s. Are you kidding me?! You're making like the gajillionth reference to it! Gawd, I hope you get flamed like no one ( Read more... ) -
Russ Feingold - he will blow your fucking mind
Cut from Molly Ivin's piece in the March Progressive:
Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a ( Read more... ) -
They're taking our house
It's finally official that my parents will be losing the house they've lived in for 25 years. We haven't been able to make payments with any consistency since my dad lost his job as a manager at a window factory. (His greatest weakness as an employee is probably his inability to keep his mouth shut if his boss announces a plan that actually wouldn' ( Read more... )
