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There’s this great meme I’ve seen (and posted once or twice) It reminds us all to check our sources, especially when it comes to people using the names and reputations of those we admire to manipulate us.

To all of you who own guns in America who consider themselves responsible, I have some interesting news for you. You’re not a responsible gun owner. Nope, not responsible. Now, now, don’t get pissy. It’s not your fault. And I’m not implying that you are a bunch of lunatics waving your pistols around in the […]

Luke: “Master Yoda, moving rocks around is one thing, this – this is totally different!” Yoda: “No! NO different. Only different in your mind. You must un-learn what you have learned” Luke: ” (*sigh*) Okay, I’ll give it a try-” Yoda: “-No, try not. Do. Or do not. There is no Try” I had always […]

I’m sure you get messages like this in the mail all the time: Pre-qualified! You’re already approved! Just sign up! It’s FREE!!!! I can think of a few, VERY few, things in my life for which I was pre-qualified and actually wanted. Okay, one. I can think of one. My second undergrad degree in studio […]

I read stonekettle station fairly regularly, and today he put up a piece he had on Facebook concerning mass shootings where he painted a scenario of what a mass shooting would look like if we took some people’s advice of arming everybody all the time (this time, on military campuses). You can read it here […]

Dammit, I had gotten inspired to write something here just now and by the time I got logged in and brought up this screen, I’ve forgotten it already. Such is life. Something about poisoning the well? Was that it? I was reading responses to NonStampCollector’s send off on Pharyngula and there was something in the […]

Do you have a smartphone? I do… It is wonderful. It has really given me everything I need in life. I now have email, a web browser, maps, a notebook, a calculator, a clock, a camera, a recorder, a guitar tuner, a level, everything! It is always with me, my companion, my copilot. …Oh, and […]

The other night, I sat in bed with my wife, watching the Braves play the Marlins for fourteen innings before they finally broke out of the tie by piling on run after run. It was rather exciting. Well, more relieving than exciting, really. After 13 innings of barely anything happening, it was more of a […]

Here are the monologues I’m preparing for the Unified auditions All my sons: Oh, no, he’ll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way, Frank is right – every man does have a star. The star of one’s honesty. And you […]