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08/09/17 :: Quote :: Unknown

Some asshole just farted in my pants.

08/09/17 :: Quote :: Terry Pratchett (not verbatim)

Build a man a fire--he'll be warm a night Set a man on fire--he'll be warm for life

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #6 ::

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #5 ::

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #4 ::

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #3 ::

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #2 ::

08/03/12 :: Image :: Weak Chinese military shovel WJQ-308 from fresh_tea on eBay #1 ::

03/06/12 :: Article :: Carving out a Contraceptive Caveat for Catholics :: Affordable Care Act, Catholic Universities and Hospitals, Contraceptive and Abortifacient agents

02/21/12 :: Article :: When to use Stored Procedures / Stored Functions / Views :: vs. inline SQL or webservices

12/29/11 :: Article :: Order of triggers and foreign key cascades in Firebird :: How do before and after triggers, with their position number, interact with cascade deletes and cascade set nulls?

09/13/11 :: File :: fb214pdb adplus :: zip

04/26/11 :: Article :: On the perils of genericity :: Programmers easily take "handles anything" too far

04/25/11 :: Article :: Handling overridable warnings in the database layer :: Are you sure?

04/20/11 :: Article :: Experience Extravaganza! :: Information Technology (mostly Software) "Best Practices"

04/20/11 :: Article :: Component-based query sytem ::

04/20/11 :: Article :: Database vs. Filesystem, Blob vs. File :: Marginal performance drain for drastic feature gain

03/27/11 :: Message :: RE: Marriage and Equal Rights

03/13/11 :: Reference :: (link) :: See? What did I tell you about us doing this to ourselves?

03/13/11 :: Message :: Marriage and Equal Rights

12/30/10 :: Reference :: (link) :: MARK-Mail search syntax

12/30/10 :: Image :: Google single-search coming from advanced search with some parts of query missing from box ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: DeviantArt single-search ability, booleans, typing ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: GlobalSpec.com's chunked part-search ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: Standard multi-field non-boolean search screen ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: Eddy search and query user interface ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: Prometheus query chunk user interface ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: Prometheus query and actions combination system user interface ::

12/30/10 :: Image :: FreeSpace level editor event rule system user interface ::

08/21/10 :: Article :: Don't be afraid to be a power user! :: Database agnosticism is not a virtue

06/18/10 :: Reference :: (link) :: USPS Postal Addressing Standards - Publication 28

06/18/10 :: Reference :: (link) :: Falsehoods Programmers believe about Names

06/07/10 :: Quote :: Clay Shirky

Well, organizations that are founded to solve problems end up committed to the preservation of the problems. So Trentway-Wagar, an Ontario-based bus company, sues PickupPal, an online ride-sharing service, because T-W isn’t committed to solving transportation problems. It’s committed to solving transportation problems with buses. In the media world, Britannica is now committed to making reference [...]

04/02/10 :: Folder :: Health & Medicine

04/01/10 :: Article :: Health care reform :: The price of a doctor visit

02/10/10 :: Article :: PseudoTheos has no public comment system ::

11/19/09 :: Article :: The Freaking Gideons :: I went to a Gideon meeting.

05/23/09 :: Article :: Three Million Dollars :: Entertainment to bait...I mean, convert... the masses.

05/22/09 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

A man with one watch knows what time it is, while a man with two isn't sure.

04/16/09 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

A lot can be said for a solution that works.

03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.

03/15/09 :: Article :: God's Will :: My Take on how "God's Will" is used by christians

02/04/09 :: Reference :: (link) :: The file type dilemma

01/29/09 :: Image :: Mixed row type display :: Showing rows that share only a few fields in one sortable list

12/19/08 :: Article :: Home ::

12/15/08 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: VistA Software Alliance

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Citizen Council for Healthcare's objection to Medicare centralized database

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Progeria centralized health database

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Icelandic non-identifiable patient health database, genealogy, research platform

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Dossier Médical Personnel

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Nouveau Carnet de santé

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Google Health (beta)

09/29/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Microsoft HealthVault

09/23/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Manfred Max Neef's fundamental human needs

09/23/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Maslow's hierarchy of needs

09/10/08 :: Article :: SQL or SEQUEL :: On the correct pronunciation of the acronymn for Structured Query Language

08/29/08 :: Quote :: Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

08/15/08 :: Article :: On the proper selection of a primary key :: And of the inconsequential nature of the choice

08/14/08 :: Article :: On database design [scratchbook] :: Things to keep in mind during the process, not hard rules

08/12/08 :: Message :: Firefox fails to establish SSL connection with strange error

08/07/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Mozilla.Org's trusted root certificate authority (CA) inclusion policy 1.2

07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL Mencken

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

07/21/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: FCC fines for Janet Jackson breast incident overturned by appeals court

04/24/08 :: Quote :: Mahatma Gandhi

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

04/24/08 :: Quote :: Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

04/21/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Antonym engine

04/15/08 :: Article :: Poor man's database tricks :: How to make good use of your free/libre/open-source database system's features

04/13/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Firebird RDBMS

04/13/08 :: Article :: Verifying a master-detail relationship :: Using on-commit triggers to do what other constraints can't

04/10/08 :: Article :: Copy-on-write in a relational database :: Sharing data, but only as long as everyone plays nice

03/15/08 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

03/10/08 :: Quote :: George Jackson

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

02/27/08 :: Quote :: Dave

Oh, that's my problem: I inform people against their will!

02/26/08 :: Quote :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

02/15/08 :: Quote :: Frank Miller

The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

02/11/08 :: Quote :: G.K. Chesterton

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

02/07/08 :: Quote :: C.P. Snow

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

02/01/08 :: Article :: Operating system user interface toolkits :: Ugh.

01/28/08 :: Quote :: Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

01/18/08 :: Quote :: Ben Hecht

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney Halleck

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick.

01/17/08 :: Quote :: "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."

12/29/07 :: Quote :: British Ministry of Information

What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be the truth. A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and may, therefore, be justified. The difficulty is to keep up lying... it is simpler to tell the truth and if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one, big thumping lie that will then be believed.

12/17/07 :: Quote :: Mark Twain

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

11/05/07 :: Article :: Oklahoma HB 1804, Now with Bitter Commentary! :: A new law regarding immigration.

10/31/07 :: Article :: On education :: Teaching, testing, certifying

10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. Spammer

I think this email passes the Turing test on accident: Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...]

10/14/07 :: Message :: Method: Meme-based AI

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park7 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park6 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park5 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park4 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park3 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park2 ::

10/12/07 :: Image :: Minuteman National Park1 ::

10/12/07 :: Folder :: Boston trip

10/06/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: L0rdZ pR4y3r

10/06/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Are There Demonstrable Effects of Distant Intercessory Prayer? A Meta-Analytic Review

10/01/07 :: Article :: The Certificate Authority racket :: SSL, HTTPS, trusted Root Authorities, Encryption, Identity, and all that hoo-haw

09/29/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Millet system of law

09/19/07 :: Image :: Simplified Employee Medical Health Questionnaire :: A simplified version of the Simplified Employee Medical Health Questionnaire form I had to fill out recently

09/15/07 :: Quote :: MC Hawking

ah, yuh that's right this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done. Listen up. Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock. She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock. Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas. You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies. Your momma is so da [...]

09/08/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

09/04/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: The God Fuse

08/26/07 :: Article :: Support the troops! :: Opposing a war is more difficult than it sounds

08/16/07 :: Folder :: The Press

08/15/07 :: Article :: Portable MP3-DVD player :: All I want is a Walkman type device that plays MP3s on a data DVD, without the added bulk necessary to play DVD-video.

08/14/07 :: Article :: Gender Equality :: Help! Someone stole my penis and gave it to a woman! Then they took it from her and destroyed it!

07/25/07 :: Person :: Edward Remus (cat)

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: surfaced

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: submerged with tail

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: submerged partially, distracted

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: submerged partially with some flash

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: not attacking, distracted

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: looks angry

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: head medium closeup

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: head closeup

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: head closeup with flash/night eyes

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, lunge

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, distracted

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, chewing

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, biting 2

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, biting 1

07/25/07 :: Image :: Ed in a box of styrofoam peanuts :: attacking, alert

07/06/07 :: Article :: Datatypes [Scratchbook] :: Domains, classes, inheritance, value sets, type constraints

06/13/07 :: Article :: The Internet Is Not Magic :: The internet works in non-mysterious ways.

06/12/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

06/05/07 :: Article :: Quotes :: Why do we post quotes on this site?

06/05/07 :: Quote :: Lee Simonson

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

06/03/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Papers portray Plot as more Talk than Action

05/20/07 :: Quote :: Friedrich Nietzsche

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

04/16/07 :: Quote :: Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

04/14/07 :: Quote :: Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

04/02/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: GodTube

03/29/07 :: Image :: Lotus Notes is TWICE as MORE GOOD! :: Lotus Notes Web Access!

03/15/07 :: Quote :: O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

02/25/07 :: Person :: Bertrand Russell

02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand Russell

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

02/10/07 :: Quote :: Sir Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.

01/11/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Xanax XR info.

01/11/07 :: Article :: Benzodiazepines Suck :: My fun-filled trek through drug-induced stupor.

01/11/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: Tom Cruise Is Nuts

12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics

12/21/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus

12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings

12/06/06 :: Image :: Indy on couch ::

12/06/06 :: Image :: Indy on bed1 ::

11/29/06 :: Image :: Indy on tree2 ::

11/29/06 :: Image :: Indy on tree ::

11/20/06 :: Quote :: Robert Heinlein

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.

11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

09/25/06 :: Image :: HIPAA quiz ::

09/13/06 :: Article :: Misterr Dabaar :: The story of how we met (invented) Mrr. Dabaar

09/09/06 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

For every problem involving repetition, there are only three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. You usually code once for the middle, and call (Ed.: make a function call) for the beginning and end.

09/09/06 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

Never solve a problem you can eliminate.

08/29/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Why Can't We See God - A scientific explanation

08/29/06 :: Folder :: Science

08/22/06 :: Quote :: John Stuart Mill

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

08/12/06 :: Article :: Lolicon lovers: a threat to society? a threat to anime? :: This whole debate puts the LOL in loli.

08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan responds to responses on lolicon

08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan opines on lolicon

08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?

08/09/06 :: Quote :: Giovanni Boccaccio

Alibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale. Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began. Gracious ladies, it may [...]

06/18/06 :: Image :: Lego scale ::

06/18/06 :: Image :: Urli's house4 ::

06/18/06 :: Image :: Urli's house3 ::

06/18/06 :: Image :: Urli's house2 ::

06/18/06 :: Image :: Urli's house1 ::

06/18/06 :: Folder :: Urli's house

06/10/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: MonkeySphere

05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

05/28/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

05/21/06 :: Thing :: Dune :: Classic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, 1965

05/20/06 :: Folder :: PseudoTheos

05/18/06 :: Folder :: Jobs & (un)employment

05/18/06 :: Folder :: Music

05/18/06 :: Folder :: Boredom

05/18/06 :: Folder :: Art

05/18/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Oh No Robot

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry [disputed]

I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

05/12/06 :: Person :: George Bernard Shaw

05/12/06 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: John F. Kennedy

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

05/12/06 :: Person :: Patrick Henry

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Aristotle

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick Henry

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

05/12/06 :: Quote :: Samuel Adams

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

03/03/06 :: Article :: Downloading Is Stealing :: Lies, obfuscation, and a deliberate disrespect for parallelism in analogy

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver6 ::

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver5 ::

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver4 ::

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver3 ::

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver2 ::

02/20/06 :: Image :: Vancouver1 ::

02/20/06 :: Folder :: Vancouver trip

01/21/06 :: Folder :: Indy and Unordained at work

01/21/06 :: Image :: Indy6 ::

01/20/06 :: Image :: Indy5 ::

01/20/06 :: Image :: Indy4 ::

01/20/06 :: Image :: Indy3 ::

01/20/06 :: Image :: Indy2 ::

01/20/06 :: Image :: Indy1 ::

01/16/06 :: Image :: Brain on a swing :: A proposal for a Pseudotheos logo

01/16/06 :: Quote :: Jack Vance

These, then, were Srenki, men whose virtue was the excess of vice, who with leaden zest performed quintessential evil and so redeemed their fellows from turpitude.

01/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Butt Seks for Jesus

01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot)

01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?

12/29/05 :: Image :: Chess set5 ::

12/29/05 :: Image :: Chess set4 ::

12/29/05 :: Image :: Chess set3 ::

12/29/05 :: Image :: Chess set2 ::

12/29/05 :: Image :: Chess set1 ::

12/29/05 :: Folder :: Lego chess set

11/23/05 :: Quote :: Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? ::

11/03/05 :: Image :: Indy and plant2 ::

11/03/05 :: Image :: Indy and plant1 ::

11/03/05 :: Image :: Indy on red couch ::

11/01/05 :: Folder :: War

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Philosophy & Argumentation

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Laugh, it's funny

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Religion

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Instances

11/01/05 :: Folder :: Concepts

10/18/05 :: Article :: Stub - Evolution &c ::

10/07/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

10/06/05 :: Quote :: Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

10/03/05 :: Quote :: Aldous Huxley

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry Kissinger

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

10/03/05 :: Quote :: John Milton

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

10/02/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.

09/30/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed.

09/30/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, Justice, US Supreme Court Justice

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court Justice

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...]

09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.

09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert Frost

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

08/27/05 :: Quote :: Mark Twain

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary.

08/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Inside Ronald Reagan

08/15/05 :: Quote :: R.S. Surtees (author)

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

08/11/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Fact Check

08/10/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The secret comic database

08/10/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Pandimaniacs

08/07/05 :: Image :: Compass - Our positions on the political compass ::

08/07/05 :: Quote :: Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

08/07/05 :: Article :: Peace, calm, and justice. :: On doing more than just sweeping our differences under the rug.

08/04/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Stranger Within (Human Chimera)

08/04/05 :: Person :: Benjamin Franklin

08/04/05 :: Quote :: Benjamin Franklin

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, [...]

08/02/05 :: Quote :: Disturbed

You walk on like a woman in suffering Won't even bother now to tell me why You come alone, letting all of us savor the moment Leaving me broken another time You come on like a bloodstained hurricane Leave me alone, let me be this time You carry on like a holy man pushing redemption I don't want to mention, the reason I know That I am stricken and can't let you go When the heart is cold, [...]

08/01/05 :: Folder :: Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution

08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. [I rarely see the second part quoted, but I think it's important to realize that Jefferson knew the implications of wha [...]

08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

Yet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day.

07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

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07/26/05 :: Folder :: Wendy's Oregon visit

07/26/05 :: Quote :: Iron Maiden

When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong? Part of things at any cost, at what price a life is lost At what point do we begin, fighter spirit a will to win But what makes a man decide, take the wrong or righteous road Theres a thin line between love and hate Wider divide that you can see between good and bad Theres a grey place between black and white But everyone does ha [...]

07/24/05 :: Quote :: River Tam

She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

07/24/05 :: Person :: J.R.R. Tolkien

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gandalf

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

07/24/05 :: Person :: Frank Herbert

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam

Once, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam

'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam

A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

07/24/05 :: Quote :: Paul Atreides

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat)

07/24/05 :: Folder :: Understanding & Comprehension

07/23/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Power of Nightmares

07/21/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Myth of Marriage

07/21/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: NOW with Bill Moyers will host "third-party" candidates for debate

07/21/05 :: Article :: New notes on marriage [Scratchbook] :: Have you read the fine print?

07/19/05 :: Article :: PseudoTheos is not a blog. :: At least, I hope it isn't.

07/19/05 :: Article :: Webcomics with text :: Feature request?

07/15/05 :: Article :: Meaningless Primary Keys, Arrogance :: You're wrong, I won't tell you why, but the results will be disastrous. *makes "spooky fingers" gesture*

07/15/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Everything you think you know about primary keys is wrong, because I read books.

07/15/05 :: Article :: Catch the terror :: T-shirt idea

07/15/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Meaningless Primary Keys are Teh Evel!!11!

07/10/05 :: Quote :: Hoobastank

I will dedicate And sacrifice my everything for just a second's worth Of how my story's ending And I wish I could know if the directions that I take And all the choices that I make won't end up all for nothing Show me what it's for Make me understand it I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answer Is there something more than what i've been handed? I've been crawling in the dark [...]

07/08/05 :: Quote :: Ghandi

I believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill.

07/04/05 :: Image :: Indy on couch ::

06/28/05 :: Article :: Skepticism ::

06/28/05 :: Article :: Abortion & Gender Equality ::

06/28/05 :: Folder :: Useful & Reference

06/28/05 :: Folder :: Programming

06/28/05 :: Folder :: Geeky

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06/27/05 :: Folder :: Redwood forest

06/27/05 :: Article :: Copyright Cooperative :: Private-sector distributed media library with exclusive concurrent control of licensed copyrighted materials

06/24/05 :: Image :: Every government... (painting) :: Imperial Storm Trooper

06/22/05 :: Article :: Defending archival fair-use :: Did you know you had a right to archive copyrighted materials?

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Copyright, Trademark, and Patent

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Freedom of Speech

06/22/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Dangers of Safety

06/22/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Quick and Easy resizable controls

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Existence

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Prejudice & Bias

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Sex

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Love

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Hate

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Pain

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Propaganda

06/22/05 :: Folder :: Fear

06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herbert

he fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...]

06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herbert

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

06/19/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Grocery Store Wars - Join the Organic Rebellion

06/16/05 :: Article :: School, Job, Career, &c ::

06/16/05 :: Article :: Christians & Hypocrisy - FAQ :: Abstraction of hypocrisy, application to Christianity, distinct lack of resolution, and some bits about something else

06/16/05 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

We embrace this idea with an enthusiasm born of desperation.

06/10/05 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

06/09/05 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

The more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right.

06/09/05 :: Quote :: Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggl [...]

06/07/05 :: Article :: Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation :: The living Constitution be damned

05/30/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Libertarian Platform (current)

05/25/05 :: Article :: RE: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics :: RE: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics

05/17/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Secret Way to War

05/14/05 :: Quote :: Breaking Benjamin

Crowded streets all cleared away One by one Hollow heroes separate As they run You're so cold Keep your hand in mine Wise men wonder while Strong men die Show me how it ends, it's alright Show me how defenseless you really are Satisfy an empty inside That's alright, let's give this another try If you find your family, don't you cry In this land of make-believe, dead and dry Y [...]

05/14/05 :: Quote :: Shinedown

Send away for a priceless gift One not subtle, one not on the list Send away for a perfect world One not simply so absurd In these times of doing what you're told You keep these feelings no one knows What ever happened to the young man's heart Swallowed by pain as he slowly fell apart And I'm staring down the barrel of a .45 Swimming through the ashes of another life No real reason to [...]

05/14/05 :: Folder :: Violence

05/09/05 :: Article :: Definitions (executive summary) :: Datatypes, types, domains, classes, constraints, values, variables, functions, ranges, representations, interfaces, protocols

05/08/05 :: Message :: Conversation with a random military guy ...

05/03/05 :: Article :: Double-quotes for emphasis :: Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

04/29/05 :: Folder :: Education

04/28/05 :: Article :: Education: The Topless Tower of Bad Thought :: Criticizing modern elitist thought and the modern dialog

04/26/05 :: Article :: Symbols [Scratchbook] :: Variables, constants, functions, contexts, lambdas

04/26/05 :: Article :: Transactions [Scratchbook] :: Atomicity, isolation, conflicts, versioning, commit, rollback, retaining, save points, sub-transactions

04/26/05 :: Article :: Representations [Scratchbook] [Deprecated] :: Variables, encoding, binary data; internal, primary, and possible representations

04/22/05 :: Message :: RE: RE: RE: Selfish

04/19/05 :: Message :: RE: You're being brainwashed about safe sex (again)

04/13/05 :: Article :: Maximum nesting depth of windows/controls :: EWin32Error #87

04/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Does the law require public schools to teach evolution as fact?

04/07/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: People who don't understand economics talking and filling the air with crap

04/02/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The War Prayer

03/31/05 :: Image :: Lego circle ::

03/31/05 :: Image :: Unordained in Ouray ::

03/23/05 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

Never be too proud to steal a good idea.

03/15/05 :: Quote :: Oscar Ameringer

Politics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

02/26/05 :: Article :: On teaching evolution in public schools ::

02/21/05 :: Message :: RE: Three Million Dollars

02/14/05 :: Article :: RE: Nuclear Proliferation :: RE: Nuclear Proliferation

02/14/05 :: Article :: Inchoate :: That which is not yet done, is not yet done.

02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!

02/11/05 :: Article :: Nuclear Proliferation :: This is almost funny.

02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne Stroustrup

Curiously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not. [Editor's note: while this was in the context of C++ language featur [...]

02/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Your Money or Your Life

01/31/05 :: Article :: Troops and elections in Iraq :: It could have gone better...

01/30/05 :: Article :: Personal beliefs and the presidency :: Do representatives get elected to do what they want, or to do what we want?

01/30/05 :: Quote :: Chuang-tzu

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

01/30/05 :: Article :: God kills terrorists with an earthquake! :: Some people just don't know when to stop talking ...

01/30/05 :: Article :: Contracts and Callbacks :: We really don't like them, eh?

01/30/05 :: Article :: Packaged books :: A book should be thick only if need-be

01/28/05 :: Person :: Winston Churchill

01/28/05 :: Person :: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

01/28/05 :: Person :: O'Rourke

01/28/05 :: Person :: Albert Einstein

01/28/05 :: Person :: Aldous Huxley

01/28/05 :: Person :: Thomas Jefferson

01/28/05 :: Person :: Dale Hanchey

01/28/05 :: Person :: Frederick Douglass

01/28/05 :: Quote :: Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

01/28/05 :: Message :: RE: Selfish

01/27/05 :: Article :: Selfish :: taking a stab at "team ethics"

01/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Chimeras

01/26/05 :: Article :: Second Amendment :: (to the constitution of the United States of America, that is)

01/26/05 :: Article :: Found 'em yet? :: Weapons, weapons, they're around here somewhere ...

01/24/05 :: Quote :: Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

01/24/05 :: Article :: You're being brainwashed about safe sex (again) :: Or how people like to mix God-given rules, marriage, sexuality, condoms, pregnancy, and AIDS

01/21/05 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

If you haven't tested it, it doesn't work.

01/21/05 :: Quote :: Dale Hanchey

Every government, once established, becomes oppressive.

01/21/05 :: Article :: Government run like a business :: For-profit, non-profit, or for-loss -- what's a government expected to do?

01/17/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Jon Stewart on Crossfire

01/14/05 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

01/09/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Law as parent

12/06/04 :: Article :: Ensis' Reproachable Tactics :: More tips on how to convince idiots and kill dialog

11/10/04 :: Article :: Test of Balance :: The Press: Right or Left leaning?

11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

11/04/04 :: Article :: A -> B -> C :: But wait..I only like B. I hate C!

11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage

11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: [proprietary title of article satirizing the gay-marriage issue at the state level, removed]

11/02/04 :: Message :: More voters than residents?

11/02/04 :: Message :: Circumventing marriage laws

11/02/04 :: Article :: We're all trying to solve the same problems :: Conservatives and Liberals in terms of self-balancing systems, ignorance, and risk

11/01/04 :: Quote :: ensis

Here's a random wondering I had a moment ago. I think it proves true but it may need some work. The difference between a fool and an atheist is that a fool scoffs at things he doesn't know he doesn't understand, and an atheist scoffs at things he knows he doesn't understand. :) I'll work on it.

10/25/04 :: Article :: Republicans and economics :: Maybe you'll believe this guy

10/23/04 :: Message :: RE: Disease and war

10/21/04 :: Article :: Rhetoric Watch :: Understanding the presidential candidates by watching their candidacy

10/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Disease and war

10/18/04 :: Article :: The problem with Conservatives and Liberals :: A bizarre thought I had to get down on paper

10/14/04 :: Article :: Crying in the dark :: Moral Relativism and its effects

10/12/04 :: Article :: The Iraqi nuclear problem :: By golly someone ought to invade

10/10/04 :: Article :: Trouble in Sudan :: Election year and the lack of interest in Third World problems

10/07/04 :: Article :: The Election :: Are we sick of the candidates yet?

10/06/04 :: Article :: Re: Government run like a business :: Yeah....

09/30/04 :: Article :: What do you want to do when you grow up? :: Legislating intent just seems like such a bad idea.

09/16/04 :: Image :: Unordained and Phaedra ::

09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Politics in a third dimension

09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass

09/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Outsourcing to America

09/04/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Republican Reality Check

08/31/04 :: Quote :: insignis

This Earth has less than 10% of its total space remaining. Would you like Windows to run Earth cleanup now?

08/31/04 :: Quote :: Zarthrag

Earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can.

08/25/04 :: Article :: Third-party ads in campaigns :: They've got money, fewer restrictions -- and they're on the loose.

08/18/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Live free or die

08/01/04 :: Article :: Don't ignore differences! :: The Vatican reminds us that women are different from men, hurray!

07/24/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Entropy, Disorder, and Life

07/12/04 :: File :: A talk about chastity with high-schoolers :: Real-Media audio

07/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The morality police

07/04/04 :: Article :: Fahrenheit 9/11 :: What the ... ?

07/04/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Fifty-six Deceits in Fahrenheit 911

07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

07/01/04 :: Quote :: Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system

06/23/04 :: Article :: Programming languages :: New languages seem to pop up all the time -- why?

06/16/04 :: Folder :: Databases

06/15/04 :: Article :: It's all Nader's fault :: ... or how it really isn't.

06/11/04 :: Article :: The sky is about to fall on our heads! :: ... or wondering why some people are obsessed with getting to the end of the world.

06/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Second Amendment

06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-Tzu

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Less good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear and despise him. Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves."

05/23/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Banning the Vote

05/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Harper's Magazine

05/20/04 :: Article :: Holding back :: Laws are only for the lawful?

05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still?

05/11/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The rest of the abuse photo cartoons

05/10/04 :: Article :: The Last Real Programmer :: What do Samurai and Real Programmers have in common?

05/07/04 :: Article :: Beware the demonizers :: How to spot crap on sight

05/02/04 :: Article :: South Park and The Passion :: Thoughts on the movie's impact

05/01/04 :: Article :: Relational databases :: What they are, and what they are not ...

04/29/04 :: Folder :: September 11th, 2001

04/29/04 :: Folder :: War(s) in Iraq

04/29/04 :: Folder :: United States presidential elections

04/27/04 :: Folder :: Israeli-Palestinian conflict (all phases)

04/27/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: An engineered tragedy

04/18/04 :: Quote :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)

... gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

04/13/04 :: Article :: Justice, law, morality, ethics :: What would you like?

04/12/04 :: Article :: I'd like the Truth :: Defending Faith against mootness...mootitude...mooticity....

04/08/04 :: Article :: Fighting fire with fire :: Dealing with terrorism when you aren't sure it's wrong

04/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Michigan and Memogate

04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?

04/07/04 :: Article :: What are we electing? :: Representatives, whether local or national, are an interesting thing.

04/07/04 :: Article :: Moral Authority? ::

04/07/04 :: Quote :: Howard Chaykin

I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon.

04/07/04 :: Quote :: Martin Luther King, Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right.

04/07/04 :: Quote :: Mark Twain

If you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect. [Ed. Note: you should likely reflect, regardless, but this is funnier.]

04/07/04 :: Quote :: Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

03/31/04 :: Article :: Dark future for the law? ::

03/23/04 :: Article :: Rockets :: We don't need no stinking handcuffs!

03/13/04 :: Article :: SOAP is stupid :: Universal communication isn't here yet.

03/12/04 :: Quote :: Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Translated from "On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.")

03/11/04 :: Quote :: George Chapman

Who to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

03/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: They can sue but they can't hide

03/04/04 :: Article :: Fixing a problem with TForm's resizing algorithm :: Ever noticed forms moving when resized? Annoyed?

03/04/04 :: File :: Why I oppose the war in Vietnam :: MP3 Audio

03/04/04 :: File :: Redux :: Quick-time video

03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Arguments for the Existence of God and their Refutation

03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S.-Sponsored Regime Change in Haiti

03/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Wedding Church and State

03/02/04 :: Image :: First and Second laws Graphed together :: Do you see the problem? I do.

03/02/04 :: Image :: Second Law of Thermodynamics: Entropy ::

03/02/04 :: Image :: First Law of Thermodynamics ::

03/02/04 :: Article :: Equal opportunity :: Maybe we shouldn't always spell things out

03/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Civil Rights Act of 1964

03/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things?

02/27/04 :: Image :: Indy in sink4 ::

02/27/04 :: Image :: Indy in sink3 ::

02/27/04 :: Image :: Indy in sink2 ::

02/27/04 :: Image :: Indy in sink1 ::

02/27/04 :: Image :: Baby Indy ::

02/27/04 :: Image :: Indy on back legs ::

02/22/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Election Selection

02/19/04 :: Article :: Minority Report :: Conflict of interest in the Minority Party

02/18/04 :: Article :: Consent :: This is going to get nasty.

02/18/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Think on These Things Ministries

02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy

02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you

02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story

02/16/04 :: Article :: Memogate :: Ready the black helicopters

02/13/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Didn't you get that Memo?

02/13/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Boston Globe on Leaked Memos

02/13/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Leaky Wing gets the squeeze?

02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!!

02/12/04 :: Article :: Baring it all :: Do we have to go there?

02/12/04 :: Quote :: CS Lewis: "The Weight of Glory"

"To be ignorant and simple now--not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground--would be to throw down our weapons and betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

02/11/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Handy Latin Phrases

02/06/04 :: Article :: Postmodernism (again) :: Taking another (simpler?) stab at explaining it

02/06/04 :: Article :: Some Points to Ponder for the Ecclesiologically Perplexed :: How's the church doing?

02/05/04 :: Article :: An Ounce of Prevention :: What if The People don't want to do what is good for them?

02/05/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Gouging the Poor

02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?

02/02/04 :: Article :: I'm thinking in plaid! :: We strive to make sure our editorials are as trendy as we can.

02/02/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: CBS Statement on Advocacy Advertising

02/02/04 :: Article :: The Devil's Advocate :: A little research goes a long way

02/02/04 :: Article :: CBS is being mean to me! :: MoveOn.org's "Child Play" ad is being refused -- oh no!

02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)

02/01/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Privacy and Deviance

01/25/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Can competitive law work?

01/22/04 :: Article :: The Real Voodoo :: The Recession argument is conducted poorly

01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual

01/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Text of the Dead Sea Scrolls

01/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Logic and Fallacies

01/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: How can you consider yourselves Christians when you are also gay?

01/18/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Free Will vs. Predestination in Islam

01/16/04 :: Article :: On Godwin's Law :: Did you say Nazi?

01/16/04 :: Article :: We don't need no education? :: More mores from a relativist?

01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists

01/15/04 :: Folder :: History

01/14/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Thrifty spenders

01/12/04 :: Folder :: Safety & Security

01/12/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: US Pushes Forward on Passenger Risk Database

01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors.

01/12/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: America's Homegrown Terrorists

01/09/04 :: Article :: Think of the children! :: Would you dare to raise your child in a sub-ideal environment?

01/09/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: How to deconstruct almost anything

01/09/04 :: Quote :: George D. Prentice

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

01/06/04 :: Quote :: Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.

01/05/04 :: Quote :: Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshall and Luftwaffe-Chief (Hitler's right-hand man)

We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction. "Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one pie [...]

01/05/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Earth Observatory

01/05/04 :: Folder :: Just plain cool

01/03/04 :: Article :: Blood type :: A well-meaning preacher sticks his foot in his mouth ...

01/03/04 :: Folder :: Knee-jerk

01/02/04 :: Quote :: Dennis Miller

Liberals always feel your pain. Unless of course, they caused it.

12/18/03 :: Article :: Subjective Truth? :: Don't read this if you don't exist

12/18/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ransom :: My answers to Unordained's questions on marriage

12/18/03 :: Folder :: Predestination

12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview

12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Christian Research Institute - Rape, Marriage, and the Significance of Sex: Why Traditional Values Matter

12/17/03 :: Folder :: Essence & Attributes

12/17/03 :: Folder :: Denominations

12/17/03 :: Article :: The three who didn't pray :: Four guys come out of a bar ...

12/17/03 :: Article :: Separation of Truth and State :: What truth?

12/17/03 :: Article :: Certain of Uncertainty :: Thoughts about thought

12/17/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ensis. :: longwinded answers to questions posed by Unordained

12/16/03 :: Article :: Questions for partisans of marriage :: What exactly do you want?

12/15/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Criminalizing Motherhood

12/03/03 :: Article :: Tips for making your arguments unbeatable :: Just a few tricks of the trade you might want to avoid picking up, if you care about fairness.

12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Ban the Bible, A Persuasive Speech

12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do

12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided

12/01/03 :: Folder :: Marriage

12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...]

11/26/03 :: Article :: Same God? :: Christianity ... Islam ... Judaism ... Are they all just worshiping the same God?

11/26/03 :: Article :: Which god? :: Is my god better than yours? It is even a different god?

11/26/03 :: Folder :: Truth

11/26/03 :: Folder :: Terrorism

11/26/03 :: Image :: Indy and Unordained ::

11/26/03 :: Folder :: Apartment Pictures

11/26/03 :: Folder :: Pictures of Indy

11/26/03 :: Folder :: Trip with Olivier

11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Guerrilla News Network

11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Praying Doesn't Help

11/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The 9/11 Cover-up

11/22/03 :: Image :: Snow on the front porch ::

11/21/03 :: Article :: Emergent Properties :: Self-organizing systems are 'da bomb'

11/21/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Focus on the Family's review of Bruce Almighty

11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus

11/21/03 :: Article :: Hindsight is always 20/20 :: Why buy an ounce of prevention when your children can buy a pound of cure?

11/13/03 :: Quote :: Michael Paine

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

11/13/03 :: Article :: Sleep :: It's late, insomnia sucks

11/09/03 :: Article :: Horseshoes and Handgrenades :: "Close enough" to what?

11/08/03 :: Image :: Dining room ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Bottom of stairs, to back door and garage ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Indy at the top of the back stair case ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Living room ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Our balcony ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Balcony, across the courtyard ::

11/08/03 :: Image :: Kitchen ::

11/05/03 :: Quote :: Arne Tiselius

The distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by... the pollution of the language.

11/03/03 :: Article :: Through the looking-glass :: Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear ...

10/31/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Top Israeli Officer Says Tactics Are Backfiring

10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Alternet

10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Wikipedia

10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Indymedia.org

10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Indymedia: Between Passion and Pragmatism

10/22/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Wikipedia User talk:TMC

10/21/03 :: Article :: Anonymity :: Is the author's name the most important part of an article?

10/19/03 :: Quote :: Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

10/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Live Sicker, Die Younger

10/17/03 :: Quote :: CLiki

CLiki pages can be edited by anyone at any time. Imagine a fearsomely comprehensive disclaimer of liability. Now fear, comprehensively

10/17/03 :: Article :: Perceiving the flaws of perception? :: Postmodernism, subjectivity, and relativism are hardly well understood, and with reason!

10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians

10/08/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think.

10/06/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Meme, Counter-meme

10/03/03 :: Quote :: Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition.

10/03/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Godwin's Law

10/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: My Baby Boy's American Freedoms Vanish In Occupied Palestine

09/29/03 :: Article :: Terrorism According to Ensis :: Fighting evil sucks...can we do something else?

09/28/03 :: Article :: The Great Black Box :: An idea for you to ignore and forget

09/28/03 :: Article :: Black Box Theology 1.2 :: Don't read it and it won't hurt you.

09/27/03 :: Quote :: Strong Bad

There are no two people who are not on fire.

09/16/03 :: Quote :: Gandalf

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

09/09/03 :: Quote :: Montesquieu

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'Rourke

There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'Rourke

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Richard Kerry (R-Florida)

I think that the free-enterprise system is absolutely too important to be left to the voluntary action of the marketplace.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Lyndon Johnson

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Arthur C. Clarke

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Demonax, Roman philosopher circa 150 A.D.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Michel De Montaigne

The most desirable laws are those that are rarest, simplest, and most general; and I even think that it would be better to have none at all than to have them in such numbers as we have.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Albert Einstein

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to sacrifice their basic liberties to assure their security deserve neither.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Supertramp

Now watch what you say They'll be calling you a radical, liberal, Fanatical, criminal. Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, Presentable, a vegetable.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Terry Pratchett

God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Scott Adams

Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Omar Khayam, 13th century philosopher

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child. Teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a leader. Follow him.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae West

Marriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Albert Einstein

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous Huxley

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich make war it's the poor who die.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Stalin (disputed?)

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'Rourke

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Søren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)

What luck for the rulers that men do not think!

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Thomas Reid

We laugh at the Indian philosopher, who to account for the support of the earth, contrived the hypothesis of a huge elephant, and to support the elephant, a huge tortoise. If we will candidly confess the truth, we know as little of the operation of the nerves, as he did of the manner in which the earth is supported: and our hypothesis about animal spirits, or about the tension and vibrations [...]

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mahatma Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

Any good college textbook on "oppression and how to make the masses scream for it" will tell you that the following pattern must be followed: 1. Introduce oppression as a theoretical idea. Gauge the response. 2. Make oppression optional. Depending on the opposition to the idea (you did remember to gauge the response to the theoretical idea, didn't you?), offer some worthless token that the mass [...]

09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]

Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

09/04/03 :: Quote :: Sam Brown

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

09/04/03 :: Article :: On health care costs :: The unhealthy triangle between insurance, healthcare professionals, and their clients.

09/04/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Deadly Franchise

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09/02/03 :: Image :: boys cooking2 ::

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