So about a week ago the weather was really unbearable: hot and humid and all that jazz. But recently it's been very mild, as long as you stay out of the sun. Guess where That Jerk At The Front Of The Congregation decided to hold mass this week! Can you guess? Did he hold it inside the mild-temperatured church, or outside in the blazing sun ( Read more... )

So now that I'm back home with family, I'm expected to go to church every week, which is a perfectly acceptable thing for families to do, I guess. My only real gripe with it is the one asshole up at the front telling everyone else how to think. On the plus side though, it should give me a good supply of stuff to rail against, which is always good. ( Read more... )

People tend to think that I oppose religion, and that's only sort-of true. I have no qualms against people having a spiritual side to them, trying to understand their inner self, trying to understand their place in the universe, trying to unravel the secrets of reality, et cetera, so long as this doesn't involve bringing harm upon others or ( Read more... )

Following the example of tongodeon, I feel that I should archive my thoughts on some issues that are commonly in the spotlight of controversy. I came to thinking about this as a train of thought about how adult stem cells aren't as valuable as embryonic stem cells, and in fact are almost useless without further insights that could only be brought ( Read more... )

Here's one from a supposedly moderate observer who takes on some of the bullshit being spewed around in politics and the media today. This would be laudable, except that the author, Arragon Perrone, takes only a brief moment to mention that the far-right insistence on seeing Obama's birth certificate is ridiculous because he's already offered it up ( Read more... )

So, with presidential elections looming--wait, two years? Fuck, it's like super-Christmas with people getting excited this early--I am reminded that I should cobble together a platform in case I ever want to run for something. Stuff like what laws I want to try and pass and what bills I might ratify. I've got the first item prepared already, which ( Read more... )

As many of you are aware, I attend college at UConn's Storrs campus. There's a daily newspaper, The Daily Campus, which is most well-known for its Instant Daily, a column of quick witticisms and other tidbits submitted by students via AIM. It is because of the disproportionate popularity of this section that the article next to it is generally the ( Read more... )

So recently there's been a fuss about something a Toronto cop said, which I suppose is appropriate because American cops are always saying and doing horrible shit. He said something along the lines of "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." Which is true, I mean; if one were only to suppress men's libidos, they would ( Read more... )

A quick look through my archives here will show that I have a storied history of taking Day/NyQuil to withstand the illnesses I contract, illness being a condition I find myself in far more than I'd like. Thankfully, these medicines are very effective in battling cold symptoms, or else my whole life would be thrown into turmoil as I spend a week or ( Read more... )

A bit of backstory: For a little over half a year now, I've been writing articles for The Birdshit Network. These basically were various rants against articles of bullshit I've seen in the world. However, as Birdshit aligns itself more and more with nerd culture and becoming a respectable site, I've been asked to direct my posts there to less ranty ( Read more... )