So the Green and Libertarian party nominees were arrested trying to enter last night's Presidential Debate... http://badnarik.org/newsfromthetrail.php?p=1346

you know, at this point we should might as well learn a lesson from Japan and have a mandated two-party system.

i hat to join the bustling masses of bloggers out there who rushed to their computers to register their political judgement upon last night's Vice Presidential debate, but I'm going to do it anyhow ( Read more... )

So I watched the first presidential debate last night. It was an interesting experience for me because, as some of you may know, I've had the opportunity to study both logic and rhetoric in the last year. Of course, although that academic expereince did color my interpretation of the event, it couldn't suppress my first reaction to the debate - ( Read more... )

huzza! they announced this year's Ig Nobel award winners

and people think that science can be a fruitless pursuit!

Kev Keenroy begins...

Subject: (oldschool) (OT) Breakdancing Transformers
"Big up the optimus prime massive!

http://www.wilenkin.com/transformers/Video_player_06_content.html
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Followed by the beloved Tim Cant, who declares:

"That's wicked, now all we need is a video ( Read more... )

so about five minutes after sarah left this morning, i went into the kitchen to get something do drink. when i reached for the glass, i felt a droplet of water hit my wrist. I took a closer look and noticed that water was dripping down from the top of our kitchen cabinetry, along the outside of several boxes of pasta [which had been neatly ruined ( Read more... )

my first week of classes has been pretty funny. so far i've dropped four of my five classes. One, which i should would be a 450-level english course, turned out to be a 450-level *philosophy* course, one was a vietnam war history which required reading three separate textbooks at the same time "in order to capture the rancor and disagreement ( Read more... )

hopefully it goes without saying that this is the barest of first drafts on a fraction of the first chapter. but it's a beginning. and i like where it's going ( Read more... )

I'm back from missouri. It was really good to see my mom, and I'm really happy that sarah came out there with me. I had a really good time, especially when sarah and I had a candlelit dinner [courtesy of Saffron] while listening to spanish showtunes coming in from a farther room ( Read more... )

For all the love and hate mixed together with the new prodigy album, a group of ambitious underground types has come out with a remixed version of Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned. So please, hide your astonishment at how quickly this came out, and check out their website [and yes, you can download the whole album from the website, so don't ( Read more... )