In the meme post, hunterxtc mentioned his top 100 list of songs. He tried to limit it to 'singles,' which doesn't really work now days (as he acknowledges ( Read more... )

I admit it, I have a thing against social sciences. Now I should preface this by mentioning I majored in a social science and think they are actually fascinating ( Read more... )

Sports Illustrated has an interesting interview with former University of Colorado kicker Katie Hnida. She's recently published a book, Still Kicking: My Journey As the First Woman to Play Division I College Football about her time at the University of Colorado and the University of New Mexico ( Read more... )

( Libertariansm and Liberalism, redux )

For me, the Bush administration passed merely idiotic and hit dangerous to the free world before the end of the first administration. We've had torture, secret arrests, secret prisons, denying accused the right to an attorney, denying the accused a right to evidence, denying Congress intelligence information, basing a war almost entirely on a ( Read more... )

I just got back from voting. Judging from the 13 pages of options, I voted in roughly eight million different races mostly for and against people of whom I have never heard. In fact, I probably only had solid opinions about the gubanatorial race, the senate race and the house race (and my vote will neither help Al Green, nor hurt Kay Bailey ( Read more... )

It is comforting to believe the people who run the world as 'great men'. It is profoundly hopeful to believe those who take the world stage would be extraordinary in some way.

Two men just died who remind how feeble that comfort and how false that assumption.

P.W. Botha, who worked like hell to keep apartheid alive, died. It is likely that he ( Read more... )

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I'm going to make my own giant survey. I've done this before, but I remember neither the survey nor the results. I hope some other people will take a shot at it. The idea is to be fairly comprehensive and provide fairly in depth answers ( Read more... )

To me, it looks like livejournal is going the way of the personal home page. Two years ago, during a day my friends list would have 80 or 100 new posts, many of them interesting. Yesterday I think it was five. This is not an isolated incident - it is a year long trend. On top of that, I get the impression it's true of a lot of other people too ( Read more... )