tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66080402011-10-22T06:53:26.963-04:00Essays on sundry subjectsthurdlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17298957696328439618noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6608040.post-1141861604081009342006-03-08T18:33:00.000-05:002006-03-08T18:46:44.096-05:00

So. Evolution. And gay marriage. What do these two things have in common?Well. They're both things that are opposed by the religious right. Usually for reasons that are very specifically religious, or at least they tend to make religious arguments. I could get back into the post I made a few months back saying that a lot of the anti-gay marriage people are looking to legislate comfort, but

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For those who haven't seen what's going on in Pennsylvania, I first present some pre-reading before I start to rant:WaPost: Parents Seek to Block Teaching of 'Intelligent Design.'CNN.com: 'Intelligent Design' debate back in courtThis goes back a few months, but is back into the news now because the lawsuits are about to finally go before a judge, and the question is this: should Intelligent

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Well, another college football season is about to start, so it's time to start the two new annual traditions: ripping on the BCS and trying to fix the BCS.The BCS started with one very noble goal: determine a national champion in division I-A college football. It was the only of the Div I-A sports to not have a set way to determine the national champion. Most of the sports had easily handled

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Yeah, it's the second baseball entry in a row here in My Take On... Hey, can't all be my evil politics. But yeah, another conversation, and another thought about baseball. This time, instead of Barry Bonds, and instead of throwing made up statistical measurements around like some low cost sabermatrician, I'm just looking at Florida Baseball.Baseball, leading up to the 1990s, had 26 teams. 14

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I was talking about Barry Bonds with someone today. It was a general progression of conversation. It started with debating that Casey (of Casey at the Bat) should have been intentionally walked. This makes sense, because first base was open, and he was, by the evidence in the poem, the most powerful hitter that mudville had. But, we wondered, was the IBB even a strategy back when Casey at the

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Something came to mind when I was sweating through an 80 degree apartment, and complaining to everyone who would listen/read about my lack of air conditioning...One of those questions that people always ask (what people? You know, those people. Them. The kinds of people who ask these questions...) is "if you could live in any other era, which would it be?"Oh god. Just shoot me!I can't imagine

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There's something about the modern era of politics that always interests me. It's when people from opposite ends of the spectrum start to make the same arguements for seemingly (and actually) completely different issues. I just noticed one of these today.There are those on the far right who are uncomfortable with the idea of homosexuals getting married. Oh please, like you know this is the

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This past week, I went back to St. Pete for the first time in several years. I think the last time I went there, I wanted to leave before New Years Eve, as I had plans with my girlfriend of the time. So yeah, it's been awhile. I was going there for a funeral. However, as I'd had, and acted on, the opportunity to say good-bye to my grandmother a little under a year ago, this wasn't so much an

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This is a bit of a sticky situation, and frankly, it scares the crap out of me. But not for the reasons that people might think.I help to moderate a forum intended for serious discussion on a gaming site that I have long been a contributer to (yup, I'm on staff at a gaming journalism site...it's not nearly as exciting as that sentence makes it sound, my job is just to keep people from trolling a

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My apartment complex seems to be morbidly obsessed with the mortality of the tennants who live here.Thus it is that, in the monthy newsletter that the slide between our front door knobs and the door jamb, there has been a new feature for the past few months. "Life is too short..."Now, while it is true that most of us get, on average, less than eighty years on this planet to make of our lives

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There are a lot of things that people are afraid of. Lots. I, myself, am scared of spiders, and absolutely petrified by snakes. And I mean that by the literal definition of the word, they scare me stiff, I can't move. Don't anyone be using this to their advantage, I'm trusting my blog readers entirely too much revealing this.These fears seem to get divided into two groups. Well, they get

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What, you thought that these would all be my take on simple nouns? There's only so many nouns that I have takes on (though certainly they're not exhausted to this point).DC Mayor Anthony Williams held a press conference yesterday. It happened around noon. This is not all that unusual. During the press conference, he praised the level of cooperation that he perceived between the District and

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Ever since I first read the books, and carrying over through the radio show, television show, and movie, my favorite line from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has always been "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." So I was thus thrilled that the line survived a script writing process for the movie that not everything else did. It has always seemed to me that there is something quite

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I've never really been happy with the way that I use Live Journal. Years ago I maintained a site that I called "My Take On..." which offered me the opportunity to write short-to-mid length essays on whatever subject caught my interest at the time. Some of them were serious, some of them were silly, the main difference is that most of them were a great deal longer than what I usually feel like I

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