Oooh! Feynman lectures online! [link]
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Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dcp - Jul 16, 2009 3:00:57 pm PDT #29503 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2009 3:01:55 pm PDT #29504 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Heck, I don't actually remember the Challenger
I do. We were running late getting out the door (missed the school bus, so Mother was driving us in), and she was watching it on the TV in the kitchen. They'd watched every shuttle launch, and had a picture of a shuttle on the dining room wall.
My parents were somber about it.
I, being in my Young Radical Stage remember being angry at the public for caring more about the astronauts than about the mortality rate among street workers and the homeless. (To be fair to my young, radical self, I'd been steeped in Streetwise and the activity of the Green River Killer for ages by then, and it colored my views. Eventually, I got over it.)
billytea - Jul 16, 2009 3:08:02 pm PDT #29505 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Ple! Have you seen the most recent xkcd? [link]
brenda m - Jul 16, 2009 3:20:32 pm PDT #29506 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh nice. Jimmy Carter has cut ties with the Southern Baptist Convention:
"This view that women are somehow inferior to men ... has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. The male interpretations of religious texts and the way they interact with, and reinforce, traditional practices justify some of the most pervasive, persistent, flagrant and damaging examples of human rights abuses. ... It is simply self-defeating for any community to discriminate against half its population. ... The justification of discrimination against women and girls on grounds of religion or tradition, as if it were prescribed by a Higher Authority, is unacceptable."
I could not possibly love this man any more. I started tearing up reading the article: [link]
Trudy Booth - Jul 16, 2009 3:25:05 pm PDT #29507 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Apparently he did it years ago. Good religious behavior is rarely newsworthy.
Laura - Jul 16, 2009 3:28:50 pm PDT #29508 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
That is awesome, Brenda. A GF of mine when I lived in Richmond worked as a secretary for some kind of governing board for the Southern Baptist Convention. She had many stories of the men she worked for not treating the women staff at all properly. What burned her the most is that she had to lie on her application because they didn't hire divorced people because immoral.
Go Jimmy!
Jesse - Jul 16, 2009 3:31:53 pm PDT #29509 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The SBC make me freaking insane. In leaving behind what it means to be a baptist, they've given all of the rest of us a bad name!
Aims - Jul 16, 2009 3:33:28 pm PDT #29510 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
If I were a stompy, I'd change your ID to Cowgirl Bad Name. Only for a minnit, though.
Trudy Booth - Jul 16, 2009 3:34:35 pm PDT #29511 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
In leaving behind what it means to be a baptist, they've given all of the rest of us a bad name!
Large swaths of Christianity inspire that in me.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2009 3:34:56 pm PDT #29512 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
True fact, Trudy.