Today I took the car to the mechanic (who is home sick, no car till at least Tuesday, oh yay) and took the bus home. At the transit center, a man offered the guy who was working on the soda machine fifty cents for one of the “damaged” sodas in the bottom of the machine. [...]
A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.
via Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand – CNN.com.
I really don’t see the problem. The solution is so simple. If you’re so [...]
omg, everybody freak out–a scientist who is now in gov’t once co-wrote a textbook in which ideas were discussed!
The 1,000-page course book, which was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says could cause an environmental catastrophe.
One thousand [...]
Have you ever thought about that one inevitable line on nearly any form? You know the one.
Sex: M F
Odds are you know the answer–and it’s there. You joke “yes, please!” or “as often as possible!” but you also circle the letter that applies.
Imagine it wasn’t that simple.
From here:
Imagine you’re me, six months before this, and [...]
I’m not sure what it is about me, but I tend to get confidences. At the pool today I exchanged pleasantries with a young mother. Within minutes she told me how this was her first outing with the kids since she got a restraining order against their father. His best friend had acquired a gun, [...]