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Name: James
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Texarkana
Birthday: 10/18/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: music, cognition, film, politics, wierd quantum physics-y type stuff, languages and linguistics, nutrition, pharmacology, ecology, and anywhere those domains intersect.
Expertise: Bad puns and poorly-timeed inappropriate comments, sneezing too much, psychology, computers, french horn (which I need to practice more), french kisses (which I definitely need to practice more), French (which I need to practice more... er... dont il faut que je pratique plus).
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/21/2004
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| I say this every year, but it bears repeating: In the winter, it's light when you get up, and dark when you leave work (assuming you work a 9ish to 5ish office gig). Then we set our clocks forward an hour, so in the summer it's dark when you get up and light when you leave work. And then in the summer we set them back again. This disrupts people's sleep patterns, and studies have shown that all sorts of accidents rise the first few weeks after the time change (especially the beginning of Daylight Saving Time), and the original reason for doing it is now essentially moot. So why don't we just reset our clocks forward half an hour one year, and then never them again? | | |
| Has anyone else noticed how quickly and how often our new President's
speeches flip back and forth between prophetic and
presidential? Will he be a prophetic president? I don't know whether
to be excited about that... or worried.
Either way, i'm relieved and proud. | | |
| Tonight, i watched election coverage with a friend who woke up yesterday morning on an island on the other side of the planet.
We watched an image beamed from space, so clear you could count the pores and freckles on a man's face, of a holograph of a man in Chicago projected in a studio in Atlanta.
Tonight, i saw a black man elected President of the United States of America.
I guess it's the future now.
(Or, it would be if my car had flown itself home.) | | |
| Two questions for John McCain:
1.) You call Barack Obama a "tax and spend" Democrat. Is that really such a bad thing, compared to the cut and spend Bush policies you're running on?
2.) Are you even running against the same Barack Obama 51% of the country is voting for? I mean, sure, he's going to raise your taxes, but that's because you own seven homes and thirteen cars and think it's reasonable to use $155000 of your campaign money to dress your running-MILFmate. The rest of us - those of us who have only one car and one rented apartment, and wonder what will happen if we get sick even though we have insureance because we can't afford the copay and the deductible, or what we will do if we lose our job because the 11% of our income that should be going into savings is going to student loans instead - that is, America's middle and working classes - our taxes will be lower under Obama. (Mine will be in the neighborhood of $500 lower.) It really sounds to me like you're not so much trying to run against Barack Obama as Walter Mondale, using the epithets and accusations of the 1980s.
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| Coldplay is so overrated. | | |
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