Just because there was an unnerving silence around the table. For no other reason but because there was the kind of big, silent, gaping hole sitting right in front of us where four friends perhaps think "just who are these people who I have absolutely nothing to say to, anyways, and why I am sitting with them? We've eaten our food and are done with ( Read more... )

http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i27/27a00101.htm

Every time I have a question about Spanish at Georgia State, I get to ask a beautiful girl to explain it to me.

 http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7063366.stm

There are murderers in the world who wantonly discard human life. There are entire governments of people who think nothing of massacring innocents. There is blatant disregard for the suffering and lives of other people all over the world. But we feel like extreme cases like this are rare, ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100900459.html

Anyways, I'm sitting in the library and its 11:01 PM on Monday night. Today I had a paper due for Sociology at 10 AM and I didn't do it and I've been at school trying to do it all day and all night. So far I've written two paragraphs, about two thirds of a page. It has to be three pages.

This is the kind of thing thats painfully uninteresting to ( Read more... )

When you're so used to having to be concillilatory and smile brightly in the face of people who are openly hostile or stubbornly cynical of any consideration towards animals, it is positively electifying to read Matthew Scully refer to a big game hunter as "some rich low-life." His characterization of the Safari Club as "arrogant, merciless people ( Read more... )

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watching Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is exactly like watching a high school health book come to life.