A little early, since I’m planning on napping before a party & then being comatose most of tomorrow (although I’m still going to work. I do not see these as conflicting goals). I will be celebrating this evening in the Romanian fashion, which was explained to me by my Romanian coworker as “getting shit-faced”. I’m […]

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Top Ten lists seem to be all the rage at the end of the year, and we at Mind on Fire are not ones to shy away from the popular, provided that it is some that we can appropriate and reshape to meet our own devious ends.
The Religion Newswriters Association of America recently published their […]

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I recently found out that my dad has a Famous Person’s Disease. And of course, there’s a Normal Name for it, but no knows what it is (when he told me, I had no reaction because the Normal Name meant nothing to me). And every time I think of it, every time I have to […]

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The New York Times has a powerful slide show consisting of images from Benazir Bhutto’s last minutes.  It has an audio commentary by the photographer.  They do an incredible job of showing Butto’s charisma and the power of her message on her fellow Pakistanis.
Here she is speaking against religious extremism:

These women are risking their lives […]

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When I was in high school, I idolized Carl Sagan.  After watching Cosmos on PBS, my imagination would be fired up with visions of black holes and humid primeval forests.  He filled me with wonder at the vastness of the universe and the natural miracle that is life and intelligence.  I hesitate to make comparisons […]

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Here are three Christmas songs to spread the good cheer:
Science Fiction + Christmas = Goodness:

For those of you who pine for those holiday seasons spiced with sprinkle of fear of nuclear annihilation:

I couldn’t quite bring myself to post Mr. Hanky, the Christmas Poo. Instead, here’s the classic Cartman and cattle prod version of “O Holy […]

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Instead of blogging today, I tried to do a bit of long overdue housecleaning around Mind on Fire.  I’ve added a variety of relevant links to the right (under the tag cloud).  If you’re a regular commenter and I’m missing a link to you, please let me know.
It’s too late to write a serious post.  […]

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I’ve been quoted by Andrew Sullivan on the Daily Dish again. The first time was for my specialist linguistic knowledge. Today I drew on my rich bi-cultural heritage to provide an explanation of the following picture:

Andrew Sullivan averages nearly 75,000 visits each day, which is about 74,963 more than I get at Mind […]

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According to the folks at Global Orgasm, there’s some scientific connection between individual sexual euphoria and global conflict resolution. To put it crudely, they want you to fuck for world peace. The idea is to have everyone build to a collective mega-climax at the exact time of the Winter Solstice (that’s 10:08 pm, […]

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And not in the good, Beastie Boys kind of way.
Yesterday, I got to work a little early & decided to surf the ‘net for a bit. So when a coworker walked in, I greeted him, but went back to what I was reading (yes, I found it more interesting than I found him). He said, […]

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