Several years ago, my sweetie welded together bits of three bike frames. He did complicated things with gears and chains. The end result was his very own TALL BIKE! The handlebars are at least five feet off the ground. It's a ginormous, circus-looking thing, and wherever he rides it, he never fails to attract attention ( Read more... )

"If Jesus were alive today, I think it's likely he'd be a socialist," said my professor offhandedly, in the course of a discussion only tangentially related to Christianity ( Read more... )

I was reading Fernwithy's excellent Hunger Games fanfiction, The End of the World, which tells the story of Haymitch's Games, and as she so often does, Fernwithy prompted thinky in the comments.

( Whither chivalry? (If anywhere) )

Dear NPR ( Read more... )

"So what are you thinking about kids ( Read more... )

I've felt like a grumpety grump bitch for about two weeks now. Everything bothers me.

( No. More specifically, all of these Communists are bothering me. )

Let's Be Totally Clear is a Louisiana organization trying to ban smoking in bars and casinos. I don't smoke, no one close to me smokes, and frankly I'd prefer it if no one smoked anywhere ever and we entered into a new golden age of pretty pink lungs with impressive capacity. But LBTC is just annoyingDear LBTC ( Read more... )

Penn Jillette, talking to Reason Magazine about atheism, terrorism, and cynicism:

I believe firmly that if you pull a Ferrari up in front of a Starbucks and say to a random person, "My wife’s pregnant, I gotta run in the car with her, I gotta drive her there, my car is out there, just please take it and park it and text me at this number," and run ( Read more... )

Dropped by LJ out of the blue, because I've been terrible about keeping in touch. Remembered how much I miss this place. Miss y'all ( Read more... )

Note: This post concerns religious issues, which always have the potential to be very sensitive and contentious ( Read more... )