Over Christmas dinner one year, I told my entire extended family of my atheism. My uncle Karl - very much the proper Christian - was shocked speechless in mid-passing of the ham. Noting the suspended plate of succulent pig-flesh, and seeing an opportunity to further discomfit my inlaws, I added "...and I'm a vegetarian too ( Read more... )

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So, turns out, this cold is actually walking pneumonia. Great, Just great.

My friends from outside the I.E. have heard me speak of Redlands and its neighboring cities with widely varying opinion. If you didn't really get the picture, this here list should clear things up for you.

David Lynch, by the way, is currently shooting a film about the Inland Empire called, not surprisingly, The Inland Empire. Le'me tellya, I can ( Read more... )

Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine - a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls ( Read more... )

The original email is normal type. My critique is in bold.

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In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Actually, to be fair, this email appears to be more geared toward getting you to NOT think ( Read more... )

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina probably killed thousands of people in New Orleans, the mayor said Wednesday, an estimate that, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Such a depressing article.Many people, on the news and in the street, are discussing whether or ( Read more... )

Man, someone pray for New Orleans. It's about to be hit by a category 5 hurricane - the largest hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. With most of the city well below sea level, some estimates predict "tens of thousands" dead as the city becomes a "30-foot-deep toxic lake filled with chemicals and petroleum from refineries, and waste from ruined ( Read more... )

My mother and father met in high school. Well, she was in high school anyway, He, however, was a 36 year old plumber, still living with his mom. I guess Dave - that's my dad - offered my mom a ride home from school one day and, well, the rest you can guess. She was 15 ( Read more... )