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Teenagers: Greek Orgs and Religion
I make much of my progress in arbitrary brain wandering by comparing things which have demonstrated a few traits in common, and testing for other commonalities. If two things belong to several of the same categories, it makes sense to begin by assuming that they will share several traits. Sure, this is how stereotypes form, [...]
I’ve figured out how Twilight and Football are the same
Girls supporting Football is like guys supporting Twilight: most of them are just doing it to cull favor with the opposite sex by demonstrating acceptance for their coping mechanisms. Genuine enjoyment of the sport/fiction among the opposite gender of the typical audience is rare.
This is because both are usually vapid and bland for uninitiated [...]
To Know–to Dare: to Blaspheme
If you only see learning as a process by which you, ignorant, empty yourself of the nothing you have fed your mind and devour the truth (absolute and filling), then you have missed the point. Yes, you are ignorant, but you are also brilliant! We all are. We flower from infant buds into impressively multifunctional [...]
Now if you’ll excuse me: I have a mosquito to kill.
The room is laptop-lit, and the October air is friendly. If I dangle my chillum from my knuckles in front of the window, I can’t help but adjust my fist to slide the tip in line with one of the twin tangerine dots of light marking the other side of the street. The lights [...]
What America’s Getting For Her Money: Corrupt Cops, and a Corrupt Judicial System
Speed camera pranksters in Arizona are dodging their illegal tickets, and Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Jeff Hawkins is saying “These are what you probably consider as people who don’t really respect the law at all.”
Officer Hawkins and the State of Arizona should bear in mind that while these cameras are ‘legal’ in Maryland [...]
Hair Loss: Implications
If anybody I know is going to have a quarter-life crisis anytime soon, it’s not going to be me. I finished with that years ago. I look at my hairline and I see it peeling back ever so slowly, and I know that the first signs of aging are upon me. I have been looking [...]
Tape on the Fishtank
My brother is a mischevious guy. When he was very young he once decided that throwing marbles around the living room would be fun. At the time we had a tropical fish tank. You see where this is going? When I discovered him attempting to use Scotch tape to prevent the water from leaking through [...]
Origins of Spiritual Euphoria
I find it deeply satisfying that the only official response to this article thus far was from a user evangelizing an addiction. I’ve heard the same pitch from cigarette and cannabis smokers, as well as alcoholics and opiate abusers.
Once you’ve [used my drug], you won’t need anything else!
I think the missing link between predisposition to [...]
The Half-Life of Art: Not Quantifiable, But Observable
Art is inextricably linked to medium in that if you attempt to separate an art from its medium, you must in some way translate it. Translation may preserve the original spirit of a work of art, but it certainly does not preserve the artwork in its original form. This is a fine concept, because translation [...]
The Ethics Behind Economies of Private, Torrentbits-based Bittorrent Tracker Communities
I promise: in this highly specific article I will discuss the topic, but for the sake of context I’m going to have to update you on a bit of history and hopefully get out of the first person. Readers of this article who are are familiar with P2P history and Bittorrent should skip to the [...]
