I’ve got that telltale oval sticker. That’s right, I voted. :)
There’s a neck-and-neck primary in Lansing, as well as a couple of millages that I cared about, including one for the Capital Area District Library.
Go vote! Or else Puff Daddy (or whatever he’s calling himself this week) will shoot you!
I spent some time catching up on my LJ friends list today, and there were quite a few good links.
First, on the topic of Scientology, a topic that
The Unfunny Truth About Scientology – http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
The Unfunny Sequel – http://theunfunnysequel.ytmnd.com/
I think that I got this one from
Marriage and its history – http://www.reason.com/0606/cr.js.marital.shtml
In a similar manner, I’m pretty annoyed with myself that I missed this one. Link courtesy of
Climate Crisis – http://climatecrisis.org/
I am a myst addict; I WANTWANTWANT… – http://community.livejournal.com/myst_library/94621.html
This speech is an amazing read. I highly recommend it. Someone finally dared to address religion and politics, and did it well.
For X-Men 3, I have one word: disappointing.
Net Neutrality: This video explains a lot of what it’s about. Thanks,
I still think that all it will take is a company or two (Google? Eh, what?) to purchase a bunch of dark fiber (cheap as hell since telco scandals of a couple years back), hook up to university backbones (mmm, donations), and attach their own DNS and routing servers. Change two numbers in your connection settings, no matter who your ISP is, and whammo. No more privileged internet.
Also thanks to
The signing for June 17th at Everybody Reads is confirmed! 6pm to 8pm, and they will have copies of the novel at the store, available for purchase. Glee!
My mood has been swinging like a god. damned. pendulum. Likely I need to write more. Also, I think that I had gotten used to having part of my day to myself while
Also, I probably need to write more. [Benny voice] Did I mention that? ‘Cuz I do. [/Benny voice]
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1- Zero Gravity
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside-down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.
The Russians used a pencil.
Your taxes are due again–enjoy paying them.
2 – Our Constitution
They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it any more anyway.
3 – Ten Commandments
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is that you cannot post “Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,” and “Thou Shall Not Lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is in the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Remember this?
Bush declared four days after the storm, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees” that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans.
Well, the Associated Press just made a video tape public wherein Bush was briefed days before Katrina, and the possibilities of the levees breaking were raised. He knew. It was anticipated. And they did nothing.
Article is here.