They haven't talked much about it this year, thank Gods, but they *have* talked about it some: the whole "war on Christmas" BS. Christianity steals a pagan holiday (several, actually), calls it the birthday of Jesus (which is totally illogical; who the hell was having babies in the middle of fucking winter back then? Granted, this was the middle ( Read more... )

Before I go on, let me just state (so you don't get bent out of shape) that while I am very scientific and rationalistic, I am not a fundamentalist materialist. I am spiritual as well as scientific. I reject Creationism, but not necessarily intelligent design. Like scientists are SUPPOSED to do, I keep an open mind. I'm kind of agnostic, and so I ( Read more... )

Why can't anything just be simple with government? The PIN number for my student loan online payment thing should be my social security number, or some variant of it ( Read more... )