moop, I posted that yesterday m I'm still shocked that Hunter shot himself. He wasn't in bad health, and his first novel, The Rum Diary, is being turned into a movie, starring once again Johnny Depp. He has been writing and had just started a comeback... It just don't make sense. Having his ashes b...

Hunter S. Thompson, probably the most celebrated journalist in American history and counterculture icon, committed suicide today in Aspen. He apparently shot himself, but the investigation is still in its early stages. Thompson was the author of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "Hells Angels," "The...

Congratulations to you guys! You're going to love being parents.

I missed the Daily Show because I was working. How did it go?

Because really, what can you do? Unless countless millions of people decide to protest , we're all doomed. [/quote And Thus Begins my rant. What indeed can we do? Nothing. Nothing but hope. That thing that holds on after faith, any real belief has long faded. That is what I do. I hope. Every time i...

This is one hell of a hard list to come up with, but here goes: (10) Queensryche -- Operation Mindcrime. One of maybe two or three concept albums in the history of rock that actually worked. This album mixes revolutionary politics with drug addiction and a tragic romance, and in the process carries ...

Buttercup wrote:Hrm...very good. Very interesting.

I have never, *gasp* read any Vonnegut. Any suggestions on where to start?

I'd start with "Slaughterhouse Five," his most famous, and then move on to "Cat's Cradle," "Breakfast of Champions" and "Galapagos" (those are my favorites, at least).

Congrats from Jenna and I!!! (Baby Elizabeth, now one week old, waves hello to yet another future playmate)

OK, folks, here's the latest from my laptop in the hospital room: Mom and Elizabeth are doing fine. Elizabeth fed twice from Jenna last night and her color's looking better. Her blood sugar's gone up and she's drowsy a lot of the time. "This is the bestest baby in the world!" says mommy, who's an au...

Actually I think that the sun has alot more to do with life than percieved, and also the planets rotation. It it doesn't rotate as Earth does, thus gettng say less than half of the sunlight, I can't remember the stats on Mars at the moment, then their would be less, if any plant life, unless that i...

How do we know that water automatically equals life? They've yet to have physical proof. Sure it did on our planet, but those are differant living conditions, and differant lengths from the sun. Good point -- we don't know that water necessarily equals life, although we're moving toward the conclus...

Well they are trying to stop crack addicts from having kids. In NY they gie you like 500 dollars or something like that if you will get steralized. But of course it wouldn't all go to that in realtity, but if it would, would you rather have it go to the people or to space exploration? Seriously, I'...

theres water in my stool too... seriously though thats a great scientfic find and we are too broke to be paying attention to this field... after we axe bush and get outta the $$$$-poopchute ill clap im glad they found it personally but... was wet... great. not inhabitable.... suck. i want to care a...

Big news for all us astronomy buffs ....

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom ... 0302a.html

I might actually have to get cable now!

[quote="Onibubba"] I guess what I am confused about is this: What is of more importance to christianity, the fact that he died or the fact that he rose? I'm inclined to believe it is his death as that seems to be the focus of how the religion is protrayed - and I am not talking about this ...

As a side note some of you were talking about the christians starting to use the cross as their symbol. On one of my tours in the middle east I went to capadosia (sp) in turkey. In this area they have a community that was built by some christians. They have many churches there. They believe on of t...

“Satanarchy” is a 30min. puppet show of the EFFING PIEBALD FRUITCAKE PUPPET THEATRE that was recently broadcast on cable access Ch 12. It seemed to piss some folks off. "Satanic Parody Airs At Taxpayers' Expense in Knoxville" was the 1st headline for this Ch. 6 news story but too many people compla...

What's next, hammer on a chain? What's the difference between that and wearing a cross on a chain? I was joking that the hammer on the chain might be misinterpreted as a reference to Thor (asatru). But seriously, the difference between wearing a cross on a chain as opposed to the nail or hammer? No...

Mistress Eve(L) wrote: No it does not indicate that the jews killed Christ, it makes more of a point that it is our own sin that killed him Well, your sin maybe. Thanks for not including me in your superstitious claims next time. K wel l when I said "our" I mean the rest of humanity who is not Chri...