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Can you supersize my happy meal?

Oi. Let me just say that removing toys from the happy meal is not really a step toward ending childhood obesity.   The Supervisor of Santa Clary County, California, would like happy meals to be devoid of toys. Read more

We are not alone

Nope.  Sapient life, other than human beings, exists.  Right here on Planet Earth! Chimp News: Chimps and Dying – Surprisingly Humanlike: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36783026/ns/technology_and_science-science Chimps and Tools – Rivaling those of Stone-Age Humans: Chimp-made toolkit most complex ever found Read more

Muppet Mania

More Muppet Goodness here:   http://www.youtube.com/user/MuppetsStudio

Animals Less Protected? Not Really, but this doesn’t help.

  The headline is that the Supreme Court has struck down animal cruelty laws, but having read this article (Supreme Court kills animal cruelty law – USATODAY.com) I’m not really sure that is what the Supreme Court Read more

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.

We *are* the youth…

So sayeth the Stryse. So sayeth we all? Read more

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

LiveJournal Transfer

I’m working on importing my old LiveJournal to this blog, so if it is successful, it will fill up with a good decade’s worth of my ramblings.

Cylon Invasion

So last night I was treated to some interesting dreams.   Funny how the stuff of nightmares is now sleep-time entertainment for me…. 

Well, save one particular piece of imagery that had my beloved little Leia suffering severe burns… I Read more

Toasters and Skin Jobs

So I’ve been trying to hold on to this since about 5:50 this morning when I first awoke.

I’ve dreamt myself as a Cylon.    That’s right.   One of humanity’s destroyers.

The details are, of course, somewhat sketchy but this Read more

Legacy's Snowfall

So the first snowfall (in town anyway) of the new winter season finally happened yesterday. Not quite the “snow of the apocolypse” I had half-hoped for (it would be nice to cripple the town for a few days and Read more

Hello

This is my first mobile posting to my LiveJournal. It’s pretty neat I guess. Hallowed are the Ori!

So I woke up today with a nasty headache that just recently went away… The sad part is remembering waking up during the night with the headache… so its been going on for quite sometime. It must have been Read more

hmm. so i just found an email from my friend tim who tracked me down on myspace. fancy that. now i dont even need to leave the house to accidentally bump into long lost friends.

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

Evolution of Dance

http://popsugar.com/6796

Vote for Tom Hanks

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

More on recycling…

I’m not smoking crack. A concerted and comprehensive recycling effort can really help a city out. Take San Francisco for example. Their aggressive recycling efforts have diverted 2/3’s of all their waste out of their landfill. Read about it Read more

Giving up on freedom

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