from this place.Black teen pregnancies? A 'crisis' in black America ( Read more... )

Here is Phaedrus' speech to Socrates from Plato's Phaedrus


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I know everyone (including me, mostly) is distracted with the unfortunate family difficulties of McCain's VP candidate (as well as her hair, her hobbies, and her apparent lack of any aptitude appropriate for the job), I'm going to take a moment point out some less salacious but more important news.  An excerpt:

Inflation has gutted wages over ( Read more... )

Three women friends, one in a casual relationship, one engaged to be married and one a long-time wife, met for drinks after work.  The conversation eventually drifted towards how best to spice up their sex lives ( Read more... )

A movie about Burning Man

My parents' 42nd wedding anniversary!

They've had their ups and downs, but they're some stick-to-it people.  I love my mom and dad.  :-)

I never knew who this was singing backup for her.

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Let''s look at John McCain on the war.This, along with the fact that he'll be the first one to tell you he doesn't really know economics all that well, plus the fact that he was one of the Keating Five, makes me wonder why anyone thinks this man would be any better, or any different, than the bunch of monkeys we've got in there now. I keep ( Read more... )

But what we have here is a stupid bint.

I really hope that someday I might be able to be PROUD of being from Oklahoma. It's been too damned long since there's been a Carl Albert.

UPDATE: It looks like people at my alma mater can still make me proud. Some fine folks around UCO.