Maybe you know the [rather offensive] joke: "Arguing on the Internet is like winning the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded ( Read more... )

Char being the space-case he is, he will watch reruns of The Universe if they talk about Mars. [This isn't a criticism--I'll watch reruns of MythBusters if it's... ANY of them.] It's interesting, the amount of debate that goes into Mars, but the greatest debate is whether we should eventually colonize space, Mars being the most likely candidate for ( Read more... )

I spent the entire night, what I didn't spend tired as shit and napping, reading. From after work yesterday morning, I started with Death Note #3-4, skipped to FMA #9--subsequently getting LOST AS HELL in the plot--went back to the rest of DN [through #7], forgot to finish Gifts beforehand, shrugged, re-read FMA #6-9 to try to figure out what the ( Read more... )

In retroactively tagging [in increasingly more cases, retagging] older posts, I've had to reflect upon stances I've proposed in the past, in largest part generated from a certain post I haven't yet located but if I find it will be tagged here. The gist of it is that I'm likely TOO Zen [in the traditional sense, not the Five Rings sense] and ( Read more... )

I have regularly [I hesitate to say "always"] refrained from ever speaking in terms of political or social oneness, predominantly because I know now more than ever that forcing people to think similarly will only bring dischord and resentment. In particular, I gave up trying to rule the world, not only because once upon a time I made the mistake of ( Read more... )

Since settling down a bit from post-work winding down time, my ire has taken a slight dip... however, I do want to get it on the record, because the frustration is only building up without putting down some kind of gauge to show, "Look, here's where things were, and here's where they are now... better, no?" [even if it isn't better ( Read more... )