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Things are finally starting to settle a bit -- it's like having been tossed around at sea to wake up to the calm one morning and find you've been driven to the shores of a seaside community ( Read more... )

Someone forwarded on to me the "truth" about what had happened with those arrested Islamic religious leaders -- and it must be the truth, because it was from a guy that was on that flight ( Read more... )

I'm going to let all of you Christians in on a little secret -- Jews don't give a shit about Hannukah. Hannukah is really only there to keep us from killing all the Christians every December ( Read more... )

Sometimes we don't need lectures and "I told you so-s".

Sometimes we just need to be told that it's okay to be sad.

Even I forget that some times.

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching an episode of Desperate Housewives [yes, I know, I'm the gayest strait man alive]. In the episode, a bunch of customers were herded into the back of the store and cowered as they held each other and dealt with the possibility of being killed. It was a bit difficult for me to watch, as it brought to mind for me ( Read more... )

as i work to get rid of my excess mental baggage, i turn my attention back towards the task of getting rid of my *literal* excess baggage ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, a little over 40% of Americans practiced their right to vote -- and almost 60% of those decided the ground swell that was a bunch of too close to call races ( Read more... )

I had decided I wasn't going to post about this, but it turns out to be such a huge personal milestone for me I felt I deserved to ( Read more... )

I'm tired of the political correctness that surrounds religion. Now, before I piss everyone off, I realize that blaming religion for the acts of the religious is like blaming the baseball leagues for Pete Rose's gambling. And yes, I understand that if it wasn't religion, then people would find some other reason to kill one another. But my argument ( Read more... )