As most of you are probably aware, I am a huge fan of Charlie Brooker. I find that his writing and shows are amusing, relevant and more often than not to the point. The reason I bring this up? Well, in one episode of his show Screenwipe, Brooker looks at rolling news channels and the amount of filler stuff they air. Stuff which isn't actually news but, seeing as they have to show something,...

 I'm currently having a mental block of all ideas and emotions. I am confused, no I am hurting, no I am mad, no I am happy. It's running through my head, but I can't settle on one emotion. I can't figure out what my mind is trying to do. It's fooling me into thinking I'm okay. It's fooling me into thinking that I am this different person. I like to think of myself as imagining these...

Democrats DEVASTATED. POOR President Obama. Everybody is picking on him. Some people don't understand how hard his job is. Others are just mean and selfish. That's the latest White House whine, as though the most powerful man in the world is a victim of sinister domestic forces beyond his reach. The woe-is-me complaints suggest the occupant of the Oval Office, Nobel Prize and all, is...

If you say that your morality comes only from your god, and that without your god there can be no morality, then you are a truly frightening person. Because, you see, you have outsourced your morals and ethics, making you a moral infant, unable and unwilling to commit yourself to being responsible for your own good behaviour. Worse than that, you have taken all virtue out of yourself and...

You're waiting around for something profound to happen in your life.  And profound isn't always a good thing. George said that to me last night.  I stopped by after visiting most of the afternoon with my mother.  I'm really enjoying the time alone with her.  Without my sisters chirping in my ear.  I feel like I have her all to myself. As I was leaving,...

There is not a day goes by, that my smile does make a lie, of the countless tears I cry, since her bitter goodbye. All I see in my minds eye, is her, naked, with another...

I am tripping over myself. again and again and again. My world is crumbling. Oh no. not crumbling. It has caved in -inside of me. Like an underground mine. It's hard. In many differenct ways. It's painful In many different levels. I have let you down sangee. I've let you down on countless occasions before. So many damn times.  But I think now.. I have...

The paper I submitted for RELS 311: Gender and Sexuality in Judaism and Early Christianity. “Abomination” in the Bible: Levitical Sexual Prohibitions in Context   One of the more salient and disturbing images of contemporary religious denouncements of displays of anything other than heterosexuality is that of protestors holding up signs with messages saying, sometimes in...

"Ok, so, if you look at this chart I think you'll better understand what I'm talking about. In the last year or so, an increasing number of people have failed to get the joke. This is true across the country – and it's even truer here in Ohio. In both cases, this seems to be the continuation of a trend that began several years ago. It also seems to be a trend that's accelerating, both...

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