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New Books For Deep Space Nine Fans

Saturday, 29 March 2008 12:32 A GMT-05

Fans of Deep Space Nine have four new books to look forward to this spring. Three of the books are a trilogy all bearing the subtitle, Star Trek: Terok Nor. These books are a prequel to Deep Space Nine and tell the story of the Cardassian occupation

Category: Books

More Wacky Dreams

Friday, 28 March 2008 12:00 A GMT-05

Last night was recurring dream theme night. In the first dream, I was driving down a main road in my town when I suddenly saw several tornadoes approaching from all directions. I was trying to find shelter, but was hampered from doing so because the

Category: About Me/Memories Daily Life

Democratic Self-Sabotage

Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:06 P GMT-05

Last night, while listening to the radio, the host was talking about a poll taken of Clinton and Obama supporters. The poll results showed that a sizable percentage of each group said that they would not vote for the other candidate if their candidat

Category: Politics

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70 Questions

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 9:18 A GMT-05

I've not had much sleep in the last couple of days and I've got to go to work today, so I'm going to take the lazy way out and leave you with a 70 question meme I found on Chica's blog the other day, as I'm too tired to write anyt

Category: About Me/Memories Memes/Quizzes

Wheelchairs For Pets

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 8:52 P GMT-05

While browsing the net today, I found a website, Eddie's Wheels, which is a business devoted to making wheelchairs for handicapped pets with disabilities of various kinds, both temporary and permanent. I've seen many pets over the years who

Category: Animals

A Multiplicity of Vices

Monday, 24 March 2008 12:11 P GMT-05

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~Thornton Wilder There are those who would consider my voracio

Category: About Me/Memories Rambling Culture/Social Commentary Daily Life

Obama's White Grandmother Brouhaha

Sunday, 23 March 2008 11:47 A GMT-05

In an attempt to justify his ongoing association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama compared him and his brand of racism with that of his white grandmother: "As imperfect as he [Rev. Wright] may be, he has been like family to me. He streng

Category: Religion Politics Culture/Social Commentary

Couple Arrested For Having Sex in Church

Saturday, 22 March 2008 12:07 P GMT-05

A Florida couple was recently arrested for having sex inside a church. On the night of March 11th, deputies received a call of suspicious activity inside a Baptist church. When they arrived and entered the church to investigate, they found the woman

Category: In the News Culture/Social Commentary

Ten Facts About Sex

Friday, 21 March 2008 8:39 A GMT-05

I received this list of interesting facts about sex in an email that I thought I'd pass along. 1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and

Category: Culture/Social Commentary Daily Life Trivia/Lists

White Guilt?

Thursday, 20 March 2008 12:33 P GMT-05

The other day, I read an article on Alternet that discussed the possibility that some white people support Barack Obama because of "white guilt" about our country's history of slavery and racism. My comment in response to the article w

Category: Politics Culture/Social Commentary

Ten Years On

Wednesday, 19 March 2008 12:38 P GMT-05

I realized the other day that I've been a computer user and have been online for ten years now. I'd wanted a computer as soon as personal computers were introduced, but because they were quite expensive at first, I was never able to afford o

Obama Declines to Lower Drinking Age

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 12:59 A GMT-05

In a recent discussion with veterans, Presidential candidate Barack Obama said that if he was elected President that he would not lower the current drinking age. "I know it drives you nuts. But I'm not going to lower the drinking age,"

Category: Politics

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The Nature of Pleasure: Emotional or Physical?

Monday, 17 March 2008 6:41 P GMT-05

Not too long ago, I got the first season of the original Star Trek on DVD. As I've re-watched the episodes, it's been almost like reliving some of the best parts of my childhood. In several episodes, I saw Kirk the libertine in action seduci

Category: Libertine Culture/Social Commentary

Odd Dreams

Sunday, 16 March 2008 12:28 P GMT-05

I've been having a lot of vivid dreams lately, so I thought I'd share a few snippets of recent ones. In one dream, I was standing on the side of a rural road with a lover. A column of Army trucks drove past us, each full of infantry soldiers

Category: Junk Drawer About Me/Memories Daily Life

Voting Quiz

Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:28 A GMT-05

Who You Should Vote For Barack Obama: 80% Hillary Clinton: 60% Ron Paul: 33% John McCain: 20% Mike Huckabee: 7% Who you agree with on the war in Iraq: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Who you agree with on the economy: Hillary Clinton Who you

Category: Politics Memes/Quizzes

Dr Laura is Full of Crap

Friday, 14 March 2008 12:19 A GMT-05

On a recent appearance on the Today show about the Eliot Spitzer brouhaha, pop-psychologist Dr Laura Schlessinger, made the comment that she believed that wives were largely to blame when a husband engaged in extramarital sex.“When the wife doe

Category: Rants Politics In the News Culture/Social Commentary

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Just As True Now As It Was Then

Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:54 P GMT-05

Following are some quotes from my favorite president, Harry Truman, that are just as true now as they were at the time he said them. "In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gi

Category: Politics People History

Should We Really Be All That Surprised?

Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:55 A GMT-05

Another public figure, Governor Eliot Spitzer, has bit the dust in relation to a sex scandal; i.e. for engaging in something other than society-approved sex within the context of marriage. The public reaction, in the media and elsewhere, is shocked i

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12 Year Olds Arrested For Having Sex At School

Tuesday, 11 March 2008 1:22 P GMT-05

Several days ago, police in my town arrested two 12 year olds for having sex at school. The preteens admitted to having sex there on at least three other occasions. Both students had asked to be excused from class to go to the restroom. After they

Category: In the News Culture/Social Commentary

Thick Southern Accent = Doomed to Failure?

Monday, 10 March 2008 7:00 P GMT-05

I haven't ragged on my favorite self-righteous elitist, Neal Boortz, in some time. I listened to him the other night and he kindly supplied me with something to rant about.Boortz was talking about a news story where a chunk of green ice from a pl

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Random Photo Meme

Sunday, 9 March 2008 11:37 A GMT-05

I decided to do Mothman's Photo Meme: 1) Answer the questions below 2) Take each answer and type it into Photobucket's search engine (HERE) 3) Choose (click) your favorite picture, copy the "html code" (below the picture), posting

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Miscellania

Saturday, 8 March 2008 11:47 A GMT-05

Two kids somewhere in my neighborhood got mopeds recently. How do I know? It's easy -- they're constantly riding the damned things up and down the street at all hours. I'm guessing they think they're cool; that they're "real

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