His achievement, depicted in the following clip, just about makes up for his starring in movies that mocked the literary works on which they were allegedly based (I, Robot and I am Legend come to mind). FWIW, my fastest time (in the sixth grade) was 1:17 (that’s one minute, 17 seconds). I could say that [...]

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Jane Doe is standing up to the social stigma attached to having been raped and the attendant indignities she discovered were involved in attempting to report it. In Japan. Although it is both a different culture and legal system, I don’t think there’s any culture that deals with rape without social stigma or the indignities [...]

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Jana’s Smile., originally uploaded by mind on fire. We kissed for the first time. She still makes my toes curl and my heart flutter.

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Over dinner, Jana likes to regale us with stories of infectious diseases (luckily this hasn’t included dysentery–yet). Lately, this has included detailed descriptions of death by diphtheria. Most of the fatalities caused by this disease were children and the elderly, and the bacillus killed by slowly secreting a leathery membrane that grew until it blocked [...]

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You rock my world.

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I’ve resolved to post more photos on the site, and I think I’m going to start with some from my travel to DC and NYC. I hope this turns out to be a bit more interesting than the proverbial dreaded vacation slide show. This is a shot I took of Grand Central Station, a two [...]

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I think I’m finally to the point where I’m ready to turn my membership card in the Mormon Church in. Unfortunately, I can’t redeem it for a decade and a half of tithing. I held onto it for this long because, quite frankly, I felt like I could be a more effective critic of the [...]

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Another execution of an unarmed black man by white cops. This one might have been covered up if not for citizen journalists, cell phone video recording technology, and YouTube. Read the news story, watch the (graphic) video, and if you’re appalled by this, pass the word on so that national media attention is focused on [...]

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I hope none of you find this inundation of Amanda redundant. But not only are the lyrics perfection, but they are. Written. By. Neil. Gaiman. I Google you late at night when I don’t know what to do I find photos you’ve forgotten you were in put up by your friends I Google you when [...]

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That’s a rhetorical question by the way, so quiet, you. Zip it! The following makes a good drinking game: one swallow from a goblet of consecrated wine whenever you hear (or think you hear) about the Pope, a shot of bad gin for each time one of the Henry VIII’s wives is mentioned (you’ll have [...]

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