It's funny that both the left and the right are against the Supreme Court. I personally am generally happy with the SC as long as both the liberals and the conservatives remain un-happy with them - it shows they are doing their job.
So, what are the most "harmful" books according to the ultra-conservative panel? 01. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels 02. Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler 03. Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) - Mao Zedong 04. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (aka The Kinsey Report) - Alfred Kinsey 05. Democracy and Educa
At least I won't be considered a criminal if I go to New York with my camera now. Last year the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City proposed to ban photography from all subways and buses in the NYC area. This caused a great uproar amongst many photographers and other civil rights supporting citizens. Sites such as deviantART. com even organ
No inciteful here. Amusing? Yeah, and more than a bit of irony but not really inciteful. Evolution is a verifiable fact. To put it in terms that people can understand all you have to do is look at something like the AIDS virus. It adapts and changes over time. That is evolution. The problem when evolution is applied to the earth and (here is the real stumbling block when discussing the subject with the devout religious aka Creationis
This is a time of year that NASA, the United States and the entire world pause to remember the untimely deaths and sacrifices of true heroes - the crews of Apollo 1 and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles. On January 27, 1967 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee died in a fire during a pre-launch test. On January 28, 1986 the seve
latour: I can understand your feelings in Winnepeg as well as anybody from Quebec. It felt like a travesty when not only both of those teams moved, but when the North Stars moved too (of all the US cities to lose a hockey team if even for just a short while). I would love to see the league get the money situation under control so that the Canadians can not only keep their teams but get teams back in Winnepeg and Quebec. It just ain't right without tea
Danny B: The game is still played for fun, but like the rest of professional sports it is a business too. I don't really fault the players for wanting as much as they can get, but I do not like that they place themselves above the game, their team and the fans. Hockey is priced out of the reach of many fans already and skyrocketing player salaries won't help to reverse that. Dusk411: Thats the whole point. We've lost a season to greed and that
My primary alias is ALL me on Google (at least the 10 pages I looked at)... I decided not to use that alias here for several reasons. DesignGuy appears to be pretty popular - didn't see even one of MY entries for the alias...
If the NHL started playing again tomorrow would anybody care? The NHL has now officially canceled over half of the season’s 1230 games. They players and the owners still aren't at the bargaining tables. The hockey teams are reducing the work weeks of their office staff to 3 days and most likely after next week there will be more layoffs. Some teams are even looking at
Unconscionable? Maybe... but Wow! $14.9 billion!!! As far as tipping (basically what a bonus is right?) goes... we're talking 1.5% on a trillion dollars... much less percentage-wise than you'd leave for a competent waitress. Talking about numbers with 9 to 12 zeroes in them is so far out of basic comprehension that it becomes hard to be outraged. I'd love to see how that breaks down for the average to be over $100K (you can bet that most of
Very insightful and well written article. I work at a union (UAW) plant as an engineer and have seen a lot of what you've written about. I agree the time for unions is past.
Congratulations! I hope you and your baby are healthy on the big day. As for your feelings you're not wrong to have them. How you react, and how he reacts, to those feelings is what counts. People do get hungry. And some of us do prefer brunettes! Besides, he married you...
1. Love - an emotional state that is easy to fall in and out of. Often confusing and many times is nothing more than lust. True love is based on mutual respect and a sense of completion - the one you love makes you better and fills in the missing parts for you. It is an amazingly over-used word. 2. Sex - the satisfying of our basic animal instincts. As somebody once said - it is the one thing you don't have to be good at to enjoy. 3.
Good luck! Now I've got that Beach Boys tune stuck in my head...
my cousin is in Kuwait now..will be heading to Iraq within the next few weeks...his orders say he will be back in 2006...im gonna say an extra long prayer for him....And his older brother...well, he is there working for a company....sigh...hope they will be safe. InBloom - I hope they both come back an
Whatever. You go on ahead. Please excuse me if I don't join the party. This thread took a strange turn... I agree with you though. I wasn't trying to trivialize his death (although I'll admit upon reading my original article again it could be taken that way), but I'll never understand somebody making a
A 25 year old man committed suicide at the World Trade Center site in NYC. His suicide was apparently over President Bush's reelection (but no suicide note was found). Just how pathetic and sad can it get? And geez... the election only affects the next 4 years... this bone-head's decision was final forever. From the AP: [quote]NEW YORK
The world is a crazy place. Louisiana passed a constitutional amendment in September that was later overturned by the State Supreme Court on a technicality. That means we'll see a better worded amendment come up for a vote again here sometime soon. Once again, I'm sure it will pass in a landslide. Draginol had an article that included a stat saying 1 in 30 people is gay. That is over 3% of the population. Substitute in any ethnic, minority or
Just as an exercise in curiousity, I wonder how he would have come out? My guess is that Kerry wouldn't have fared as well as he did. I think Kerry was a weak candidate because of his record. If you'll recall, Kerry was almost out of the race during the primaries - he was basically saved because Dean
I think we need to skrag the UN and start over. Bunch of ungrateful, lying, stealing, back stabbing JERKS!!! Thanks for the comment drmiler. I wish I knew a way to fix the UN that would make it relevant, but the chasm between the have and have not countries grows larger every day. As long as all of th
The last president I voted for, was GW in 2000. He disappointed me. I'm with you Dr. Guy. I've voted in 6 elections now and voting for Reagan was the easiest and most rewarding so far. I really hope that during his second term GWB becomes a president for the entire country and not just the ultra-cons
I couldn't vote for John Kerry, but that doesn't mean I like G W Bush much better. For me, this was an election where I once again had to choose the lesser of two evils. I went with the devil I know in the end. Following are some stray thoughts on the election and the next four years. Take them for what you will. John Kerry was a weak candidate - a p
I'd suggest you don't accept a single doctor's diagnoses - get at least 2 opinions. He may have learned what he can get away with and like any other kid he pushes the limits to see just how much farther he can go. Or he might be living down to a label that somebody put on him without your knowledge (a stray comment is all it takes). With the way schools have been dumbed down it's also possible that he is just bored to tears and does whatever
Add another one... you're on my regular reading list. I also read BW and NickyG regularly in case you're interested. We have different backgrounds and very different lives so there isn't much I can contribute to your blogs in general. I do enjoy your style and attitude though (and that is meant in the best way).
Ron Kohl, the editor or Machine Design magazine, has written an excellent article on the presidential election that sums up many of my feelings quite eloquently (check the attached link for the full article). Yes, it is an excellent and eloquent article because I agree with him. :) In brief, Mr. Kohl points out that the major political parties are preying on
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