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Gosh, no. My only concern is if it is too late to get River Phoenix, or if he is still up for grabs.


If nothing else, I think that makes us even.

While I do not prescribe to any organized religion, I've often wondered why ID and Evolution have to be mutually exclusive. To that end, I found this excerpt to be brilliant.

This creator could have been anything of intelligence, including aliens. Intelligent Design is a scientific movement, not a religious one, a fact stated more than once in interviews in this film. Unfortunately, those statements are constantly ignored as 'Expelled' continually brings up the question of God's existence and thereby equates the movement with a belief in God.

Though Ebert does examine technical merits of the film, both good and bad, a bulk of his review seems to be about the message of the film, the opinions spoken to in the film. It reads more like a debate than a film review., but enjoyable and interesting nonetheless.

Oh, and Twilight, yeah, you've got to toss out anything and everything you know about vampires. It's basically a fantasy love story. I asked my wife about the details of vampires as outlined by Stephanie Meyer (I haven't read the books), and found it to be completely without any kind of thoughtful insight.

I had to get the word "evocatively" translated. So much for that intelligence hypothesis.

What was actually more impressive was how they served my Toblerone - Kaluha, Bailey's, Frangelico and cream, with a touch of honey - in a Pina Colada glass.

As for the jury duty - I guess they must like you.
(Being foreigner and only having seen trials on tv I always thought jury duty sounded like a pretty cool thing to do. At least it seemed so on Law&Order.)

Well, in the words of Deep Blue Something, "that's one thing we've got".
Then again, I would probably have been one of those Carrie Bradshaw women unless I hadn't had too broad feet for wear high heels. Sad, but true. Instead I turned to collecting and obsessing over odd things that nobody else likes. Like crossstitches. Or pretty stones. Or beautiful books.

Well put, and true as it is. He did tell me some story once about him having "been hurt once" and how he ever since "had walls" and "didn't open up to people". I can respect that to some extent, but I also believe that there is a limit and that at some point you have to stand up and decide how you want to become, what kind of person you want to be. Because that is what you have to do - decide for yourself. You are only as exposed as you choose to be.

Good thing is that I only have nineteen days left now, and then one more month before it is all over.

Tropic Thunder has been on my list of rentals, but figured my wife would be so disinterested that I'd just have to wait for HBO to pick it up.

And I can report that 'Twilight' is actually tolerable to sit through. With no medication even.

Well, I've never been to Scottsdale, actually never been anywhere in AZ, unless you count your airspace. But I've certainly been to some pretty cruddy places. And as much as I dislike Atlanta, it's really not a terrible place overall. That's funny though, my high school hangout was also a Denny's. Maybe they need to modify their ad campaign.

Yes, birth sounds about right.

I was just watching the news...and it sounds like they just did catch him and charged him w/2nd degree murder...I hope they make it stick and put this guy away....

Thanks...I appreciate it...

I find that when you keep pushing rationality and confronting people with pesky facts and such, they eventually just start to pretend you don't exist. It's some sort of self-preservation mechanism. It's actually kind of entertaining.

Please continuously remind me to stay away from that damned thread. It's like watching a grisly execution. It's horrible, but I can't look away. Hell, I'm not even just watching.

It's incredibly discouraging when you try to get people to think critically. Particularly when they're dead-set against it, and claim reason is a biased concept, there's no value in science, and education and training in science and mathematics is a useless idea meant to oppress the masses and let scientists and educators claim they're better than everyone else.

Some days I just want to go on the warpath.

Me too. Like I said, a grisly execution. It's fascinating and awful.

But I stick around in it because I view it as an ethical obligation to confront ignorance and misinformation wherever and whenever I find it. It's such a powerful compulsion that I can't even ignore people properly when I have them on ignore.

But you probably know what I'm talking about. What are we supposed to do, say, "Oh, it's ok. We'll just back down and let you take over everything. No problem."