"5 Years Too Many - PEACE NOW"
Demonstration and Action

On the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, residents of
south-central Indiana will come together in Bloomington, Indiana, to:
• Mourn all those who have been killed, maimed, orphaned, widowed,
brutalized, tortured, displaced and impoverished as a result of the
U.S. invasion and occupation ( Read more... )

My mom just sent me an e-mail with this many !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! exclamation points ( Read more... )

Is it weird that most of my nightmares recently have been involving babies? Not like, "Oh my God, I'm going to have a baby" nightmares, but nightmares in which creepy, malevolent babies are attacking me ( Read more... )

I think the result of having sciency people in my life but not really being particularly scientifically-minded is that I tend to pick up on some snippet of something that my parents or Matt have told me about, adopt it as sort of a pet pseudo-science concept, and appropriate it to come to some new realization that is completely ungrounded in any ( Read more... )

Dear self ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was sitting in the union when a small child ran up to me, handed me a card that said, "Hi College Student, Good luck on your midterms and happy Valentine's Day," and ran away. It was getting late and I was one of the only students in the union, and about 5 minutes later, a little girl came over and gave me another Valentine. It was at ( Read more... )

Legislation is being voted on this week in the Senate that would extend the provisions in the Army Field Manual to all government agencies, ie the CIA would not be able to continue using techniques that it calls "enhanced interrogation" and everyone else calls "torture." Leave a comment

Man, I really need to stop reading about ebola before I go to bed. 

Something about the University of Dar es Salaam that sat very well with me was that it's generally understood that everyone will skip classes if it's raining. I went ahead and did that today for some reason ( Read more... )

I have never wanted to write any paper less than I want to write a paper on this "theory of the neutral in utopic practice" shit ( Read more... )