If you go back in time to change the past, you've made sure that it'll happen just the way it has. Over and over and over and over again--because once you go back in time, you've created an infinite loop. If you go back in time, you've ensured that the situation that drove you to make the trip still happens, because you've always and forever gone ( Read more... )

2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked

... NASA's Ask an Astrobiologist Web site, for example, has received thousands of questions regarding the 2012 doomsday predictions-some of them disturbing, according to David Morrison, senior scientist with the NASA Astrobiology Institute ( Read more... )

I have apparently been signed up for a job I had no intention of accepting. For this morning. And it won't let me cancel, presumably because it's this morning.

Have emailed the boss. Will not take that job, if I can possibly avoid it. I would almost prefer to be fired first. (Almost ( Read more... )

[The pre-Socratics'] doctrine is hylozoistic, dynamistic, evolutionistic, deterministic, and sometimes (as in Heraclitus) pantheistic. Of all the philosophers of this school Anaxagoras is by far the most notable, for he alone achieved the idea of an independent Divine Mind as the original mover and ruler of the world.Why does Anaxagoras' theory of ( Read more... )

Hey! Guy who killed anti-abortion protesters!

GET OFF MY SIDE YOU FUCKING LOONEY!!!

That's my opinion about the whole thing.

Via Emails From Crazy People:

I've gotten school lists like this. Every year.

So we got to the restaurant at around five Saturday afternoon. I have no idea if Spaghetti Works has actual good food, because the group rate menu was less than stellar. You got to choose your pasta, and choose your sauce. You could even choose up to three sauces, but I found out the hard way that they put them on the same pasta, on different ( Read more... )

Gay people are scarier than actual military threats!!!

I have a bone to pick with UUism.

Here is the text of an address Laurel gave to the Pacific Coast district earlier in her campaign. She talks about how the upcoming generation of young people is both affecting the UUA--and leaving it ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I had one of my absolutely horrid neck cramps. This one was on the left side of my neck, and either the day or the day after it developed, I discovered that my jaw pops. On the right side. Kinda like when it crackles, only REALLY EFFING BIG ( Read more... )