The other night, as Obama officially declared himself the Democratic, presidential nominee he gave an amazing speech, for its emotional invigoration. One of the best I've ever heard from an inspirational perspective. However, maybe I'm just very skeptical, but whenever I hear him, I think of a fairy tale where someone is looking for "true love". It ( Read more... )

"Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea." - Ron Paul

A buddy of mine pointed this out and we were having a discussion on it. This is a self-portrait by Oskar Kokoschka in regards to his unrequited love to an Alma Mahler. It's entitled "Bride of the Wind" or "Tempst". Below were my thoughts, and I considered that it might be worth discussing on here.


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...yeup, Huckabee won. Frankly I'm not sure how you can sleep at night if you have the audacity to stand up in front of a group of 150 people and excitedly ramble about how a candidate has never been for Gay Rights ( Read more... )

So I walk into Quiznos to grab a quick sandwhich, and as I'm paying for the goodly dish, a man walks into the store, walks right up to the front and questions the first worker he finds, "Has my wife ordered yet?" This is, rather awkwardly followed by several blinks from the Quizno worker and then, "I have no idea who your wife is ( Read more... )

Like whatever it is that separates us from the apes. That thing that makes us qua human. That's the thing that so brutalized the ape me that I find myself cowering in the proverbial corner, afraid that if I do anything at all I will once again release the unrelenting wrath of consciousness itself ( Read more... )

This is a fantastic quote:

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
-- A. A. Milne

Was thinking this morning, how I find it interesting that organic apples are called organic, even though they're just naturally occurring apples(at least more so than their counterparts), while chemically and genetically altered apples are just called apples.

I played in the Iowa Open this weekend. About 18 hours of chess in 2 days. Playing in the Open section I faced five opponents who were all better than me, and drew 4 games and won 1. Which means I kicked ass ( Read more... )

Now, don't get me wrong I consider myself an Independent voter. Though probably only in name only. For when it comes to monetary legislation, I lean very Republican. Which was only accentuated when I was watching a Democratic debate and they were ALL discussing how they needed to help the millions of people who are on the verge of foreclosure ( Read more... )