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Why True Equality is Required

Well, there are many more examples of why, and they cover a fairly broad spectrum of contemporary American life. But here is one.  Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells all of their worldly possessions.

Hot New Vacation Destination: Your Trash

Hot New Vacation Destination: The Islands of Your Trash, now with two Oceans to choose from! Read more

When good beliefs go bad…

 Texas man threatened deadly force to stop abortion A Texas man faces charges after he filed documents in federal court threatening to use deadly force to stop an abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t immediately act to Read more

Yay, I like it when I find something to show me I'm not off my rocker

I’ve been saying this for years. Now science backs me up. Yay. http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060501_mm_traffic_jams.html

Vote for Tom Hanks

I rather enjoyed this one: http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060124_political_decisions.html

Giving up on freedom

I rather liked this opinion piece: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/02/15/1139890803075.html

oh happy day

UPN is being killed. Okay, so technically it is merging with the WB into the new CW but still. No more UPN!!!!! It makes me giggle.

Yay for Yogurt

http://www.livescience.com/php/mailtofriend.php?url=/humanbiology/hiv_yogurt.html# Pretty nifty. Can I volunteer?

Origins

I liked this as it explains it much the way I would in the debate between evolution and intelligent design: In a June article in the British Catholic magazine The Tablet, Coyne [Head of the Vatican Observatory] reaffirmed God’s Read more

Set your phasers to dazzle…

From today’s astronotes: Laser-Dazzling Weapon Thanks to the Air Force, you can put your Star Trek phasers on “dazzle”. A laser technology being developed by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) employees at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico Read more

The Mysterious Planet X

So 10 happy planets… or is that 8 happy planets and 2 (well, 5 really) happy Kuipter Belt planets?

There just isn’t a formal astronomical definition for a planet.    There is, however  a dictionary definition:

  1. A nonluminous celestial body larger Read more

HA!

Yup. I have been telling certain people that its not only fundamentally wrong, but also illegal to not truthfully disclose one’s status before engaging in sexual relations… no matter what those relations are. Here is some proof… Someone is Read more

in regards to the supreme court nomination

stole this from an article discussion possible candidates: Advocacy groups on the left and the right already are gearing up for a fierce lobbying campaign in advertisements on television, radio, newspapers and the Internet. The battle is expected to Read more

25 years to immortality, seriously

Well, the timescale is probably just a rough-guess… but the knowledge of how to do it is slowing coming forth. yay anti-aging! http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050714_aging_mice.html i may not want to live forever, but I want to live all my life in a happy and healthy body.

Data Lives!

Okay, I don’t know about a positronic brain, but damn this is scary. Maybe its cause I just watched I, Robot the other day. Check it out: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html