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Ten Reasons Gay Marriage is Un-American
Here's something funny I found this morning at a blog that Google Reader pointed me to:
Ten Reasons Gay Marriage is Un-American- Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
- Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will ( Read more... )
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A Parents' Prayer
Recently at church the sermons have been family/parenting themed, and they handed out this prayer for parents to say. I found it touching and I've been meaning to post on it for a while. I hope this will stick in parents' minds and help them do a better job, even if they're already doing great. I hope that those who aren't religious will strip out ( Read more... ) -
Siren Song of the Counter Culture
I just got back from a Rise Against concert. They're a punk metal band that creates huge amounts of energy with their music, and then channels that energy towards social action and making the world a better place. They're a really metal-y for a punk band, but a bit too punk to be called a metal band, as far as their sound goes. As for their ( Read more... ) -
God, Freedom, and Evil
I've recently finished an amazing philosophy book: Alvin Plantiga's God, Freedom, and Evil. It was incredible! Alvin Plantinga is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He's heralded on the back of the book as "one of the top Christian philosophers in the world today" (which, it should be noted, is different from a "Christian ( Read more... ) -
Take the Doritos X-13D Challenge!*
So I found this new "experimental" flavor of Doritos at the store the other day, and they have a contest to figure out a name for the new flavor. I decided to give it a try, and the name came to me within 2 chips: McDonald's Double Cheeseburger! These chips taste exactly like McDonald's in bag! Including the low-quality onions, pickles, mustard, ( Read more... ) -
Life at Amazon.com
So, I guess I'll follow Ben Pu's example and write a little about life at the company I'm interning for this summer. Of course, I've got to be careful not to violate my NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement), so I won't go into very much detail about the technical inner-workings of Amazon.com. I'll mainly stick to the sort of high-level stuff. I've also ( Read more... ) -
I Really Wish People Would Stop Setting Themselves on Fire...
Because I live right next to a fire station, and it's getting old.
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Recent Excitement
So I've been back in Seattle for 2 weeks. It's been an exciting time, with many adventures to tell tales of. But where to begin? Hmm... Ah! I know!
When me and my roommate moved in, we realized that we'd vastly underestimated how unfurnished an "unfurnished" apartment really was. All we had was the standard household machines - fridge, microwave, ( Read more... ) -
Travel Adventures
I'm back in Seattle! YES!
It was kind of a rough first night though. I got in last night at 10pm local time, which would be 1am EST. Of course, the apartment office isn't going to be open at 10pm, which I realized during my layover in Philadelphia. I was going to have to find a hotel to stay at. My apartment office person gave me a number to call ( Read more... ) -
The Limits of Omnipotence
As my class in Kant took its course through the "Ideal of Pure Reason", the third and final chapter of the second book of the Transcendental Dialectic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I was once again catapulted into the subspace of Metaphysics concerning God. This is by far one of the most interesting parts of philosophy, in my humble opinion. ( Read more... )