Finally, people are realizing that this is not a theocratic state and we cannot deny gays and lesbians equal rights because some people don't want to. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102833098.  This happened in very quick succession to the Iowa supreme court ruling.  This, however, is the first time same-sex marriage has been ( Read more... )

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F0CE6DE1631F931A1575AC0A965958260

For anybody who's vaguely interested in hallucinations and such.  I found it interesting.

Vocal articulation must be arrived at by "unanimous consent", but language is needed to voice consent, thus "speech appears to have been necessary to establish the use of speech".
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If anybody that reads this is bored sometime and can't think of a website to make you laugh, www.conservapedia.com is highly entertaining.  Just make sure to look up the fun topics like homosexuality, evolutionary theory, and atheism.

1. Creativity and innovation always build on the past.

2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.

3. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.

4. Ours is less and less a free society.

I miss my girl :-(

I'm pretty sure ultimate frisbee has actually whipped me into shape.  I don't remember the last time I was able to jog 2+ consecutive miles.

Narnia8813 (4:38:07 AM): i would like to be as cool as Jeremy Raymond

HA!  It's true.  Hey I just used a sound byte without explaining the important context in which it was said...I should get a job in the media.

 I'm back from Disney!  It was good times.

Seriously, I go out for a run and my legs could run for 2 miles straight and my heart's just fine...BUT MY STUPID ASTHMA.  I have to stop like 3 or 4 times just over the course of a mile because my airways are constricting and my lungs hurt.  What always stops me from running regularly is not the fatigue, it's the pain I feel in my lungs.  I could ( Read more... )