I have come to a conclusion. White peaches are the perfect fruit. In fact, they are far superior to yellow peaches in every way. Except for the fact that they are ridiculously hard to find. Every once in a while, Hill Schnucks will have them. Otherwise, it is hit and miss. Especially this time of [...]
Thank God engineers for that amazing fence.
I don’t want to keep ranting about the same thing, but isn’t it ridiculous that the same people who wanted Clinton’s head over a blowjob (or lying about it), are losing their minds at the thought of going after people who tortured and lied about it?
Is it just me? What the hell is going on [...]
This is going to be short, because I’m busy at work, but how, seriously, can anyone justify torture? Under any circumstances. Even if you “claim” it worked. I can think of a LOT of things that “work”, but you don’t do them because they aren’t right.
I don’t know if anyone else has been following this, [...]
Matt tagged me in this thing, so I guess I better try it, eh?
1) Rubber Soul – The Beatles
Not only is this maybe my favorite album of all times, but I think that it was the first one that I really appreciated as an album. I have vivid memories of listening to this when I [...]
So I bought one of these. I sold some stuff on eBay, and saved up for a while, which is how I was able to afford the admittedly high price tag.
For those of you who don’t know what a Kindle is, it is an eBook reader. I know what you’re thinking. “In this day and [...]
I love dystopian novels. LOVE them. I can’t get enough. 1984is my favorite book of all time, and right now I’m reading another dystopian novel, and I have about 15 on my “to read” list. What I especially love about 1984is how it is still relevant today.
I’m sorry, did I say love? I should have [...]
Happy Birthday to the newest member of the Halley clan, Mrs. Halley herself, Helen!
All day I have been thinking that today is Wednesday. All day. Until just now, when I realized that no, it is actually Tuesday.
Now, this development in itself is pretty sad. And it is really depressing, because when you think it is supposed to be a certain day, and you feel like it is that [...]
To my fellow agnostics out there, maybe today is important!
I don’t know if you’ve heard about these tea parties that are going on, but basically it is a bunch of people gathering and protesting the moves that the Obama administration is making, basically saying that they shouldn’t be giving bailouts and raising taxes and stuff like that. I don’t really care about them, because [...]
And then I read the following, and Obama finally does lose my support.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html
Update: It looks like the the Salon website is mucked up right now. Sorry about that. But not really, since I don’t think it is my fault.
Read the following link. Then try to defend Bush for authorizing this, or Obama, for refusing to go after the people who authorized it.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/how-america-became-the-soviet-union.html
If Obama doesn’t start looking into this stuff, and start opening up his administration like he promised, he’s lost me.
I planned my next trip to California, this time for a week in July. Nothing silly about that, you say. Ahh, but if you remember, I’m the guy who likes to plan his trips based around the interestingness of the airplane, not the schedule or price or anything like that. Well this time I got [...]
Two things are bothering me right now.
Thing #1. The Texas Board of Education just ruled that schools do not have to teach that the Universe is ~14 billion years old, as is stated by science. They now can teach that the Universe is around 6000 years old, as stated by some fringe religious elements.
Thing [...]