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The weight of suicide
So recently, I've been reading some debates over assisted suicide (generally for the infirm) and thinking of all the angst-ridden teens out there who would consider themselves candidates for immediate euthanasia if they had the choice. That sounds Malthusian, to me, which is a very bad thing. (I'm not a fan of Thomas Malthus--the man was wrong ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on Election Night
One of the perks of being a county party chairman is I get to write myself in as a ballot watcher--in theory, this means I get the results before the rest of the world; in reality, because of the internet, the rest of the world gets them slightly before me. But I get to see the order they come in, so that projections can be made more easily ( Read more... ) -
On Stephen Hawking's lastest: "There doesn't have to be a God"
Plastered all over the news today, getting the atheists all fired up, and the deists left being apologetic ( Read more... ) -
They
Who are "They?" They are the "other," the "not-like-us," the "aliens." In TV and movies, they are represented literally as aliens often, just to get the point across ( Read more... ) -
On Porn...
'All pornography is homosexual pornography, because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards.' And if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he's going to want to get a copy of Playboy? I'm pretty sure he'll lose interest... It's a good thing to teach young people."
-- Michael Schwartz, chief of staff for Sen. Tom Coburn of ( Read more... ) -
Way too busy
So I'm finding myself stretched thin between chairing the Democratic Party in Tooele, singing in the Choral Society, going to school, working, and hanging out with my family. I must be getting old. -
The only thing worse than being right is when your wife is.
So, Carina and I were discussing a few days ago whether illegal immigration would be brought up in regards to the swine flu. Her contention was that the epidemic would provide fodder for those who want to punish the illegals. (Punishment being different from the demands of justice in this case.) I suggested that, rather, it appears that those who ( Read more... ) -
Wow. Longest non-posting EVER!
You know you're a journal-slacker when your friends send you private emails asking for stuff that should be in your journal. I mean, granted, most people's journals are private repositories of personal tidbits such as "My poop was green and squishy today. And I sniffled this morning. The temperature at 3:17 p.m. was 43 degrees and the clouds were ( Read more... ) -
Wow. That could have been me.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705282179,00.html
You know, I did this once to a friend of mine. I asked for her smoke, took it, dropped it, stomped on it. My best friend pinned me down while she wailed on me.
Glad we were only kids then. Apparently, the sentiments only get stronger with age. -
Mr. President, was that a slip?
From Bush's last news conference as President:
"There have been disappointments...not having weapons of mass destruction, obviously, was a significant disappointment. Don't know if you want to call them 'mistakes' or not, but, they were--things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way."
I'm not going to play the "I-told-you-so" liberal and ( Read more... )