According to a culmination of research on the subject, one distinguishing personality trait between conservatives and liberals is the ability to accept ambiguity. As you might expect, liberals tend to be tolerant and conservatives much less so. So this made me think about my childhood (since I've been a liberal for as long as I can remember), and I ( Read more... )

Next Thursday (Oct 4), my family and I are doing the Light The Night Walk, to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We’re doing this walk in honor of my brother, Paul, who died from leukemia at age 17, and to raise money so that others can be helped. This is the number one disease killer of children.

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This morning I had a dream where the Steelers were playing in the Superbowl in the church parking lot next to my parents' house. Palamaulu intercepted a pass and kept running with it down the street (click click click...) in front of their house, where my van was parked. He was so happy that he shook my van hard enough for the back window to ( Read more... )

1) Beers. You're sneaky. Anyone who finds it lurking around our house, please take it away. Kill it.
2) Bears. Also sneaky. I haven't seen you around, but I know you're out there.

Come help Mav celebrate his birthday tonight at Sushi Two (the one on the South Side). We're meeting at 8:00. Let me or Mav know if you can make it.

This Saturday was largely spent building a thousand-part lego motorcycle at the behest of my nephew during his birthday party. By 9pm I finished the motorcycle, then started its launcher, which my brother finished building the next day ( Read more... )

OK, I HAD to say something in this discussion on race...

http://www.livejournal.com/community/psychology/496432.html?view=4780080#t4780080

(forgive the ugly link, I'm not on my computer)

Very nice, fun weekend, with the Hawaiian Jam/housewarming party. Thanks to everyone who came--I hope you all had fun! I have to add that I was impressed at how little post-party clean-up there was ( Read more... )

Just read this article and wondered what people (esp. Black people) think about it:

http://www.nubiannews.com/nubia/csteele.htm