How drunk and crazy do you have to be to pull your own teeth? Apparently you don't have to be completely drunk, just completely crazy! It's very reassuring to see that after all these years, Darwin's work continues to prove itself!
12/2/04 - Moved to new "Darwin's Work" topic.
I've added this new PhotoBlog topic as sort of a photoblog within a blog. With the acquisition of my new digital camera I now have the means to support such a venture.
Hopefully the first entry will be up within the next week. But for this to work the way I want it too, I need to upgrade PolarBlog. The new V1.1 adds a complete commenting system that is currently missing. It also fixes a number of existing bugs…one of which will effect this topic section.
While getting ready for work in the morning I often watch the History Channel's Cable in the classroom program. This show consists largely of a couple of those (usually old) 10-15 minute news reel clips. I don't know what today's show was, but it wasn't what's listed on their website. Anyhow, today's show was about the Germans overrunning Poland and France with little effort. At one point they show Adolph Hitler dining and they are talking about him eating a celebratory meal. Not just any meal, but a vegetarian meal. Gasp! You'd likely have to see it to appreciate it, but the tone was the classic "he's a vegetarian, he's evil and this is one of the reasons for it". Quite amusing by today's standards, particularly from a vegetarian viewpoint.
Last week I stumbled upon the website Undercaffeinated. I don't currently subscribe to the right-wing rhetoric that he seems to be infatuated with, but I did find one thing of interest. In the menu bar there's a link to The Political Compass, that I think everyone should check out.
So I went and took their political test. The results basically say I'm a "centrist, liberal, libertarian". I scored: Economic Left/Right: -1.25, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95. This is in contrasts with Undercaffeinated's score of Economic Left/Right: 6.12, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44. Thus I'd say we share a similar outlook on social issues, but apparently differ on how to achieve the goals…whatever they may be.
It really doesn't matter because our government seems to be on a constant downward (death?) spiral. Congress refuses to kill pork barrel projects and deal with the increasing burden of the national debt and the many entitlement programs. We really need to reel in spending, but that isn't going to be happening anytime soon. Gotta get re-elected you know! Which is quite unfortunate for us, particularly our future generations. Neither of the two major political parties really seem "gets it" anymore. Your choice now is the "tax and spend" Democrats or the "tax cut and spend" Republicans. Can someone please let me know when there's a "tax moderately and stop spending so damn much money we don't have" candidate/party?
Apparently God doesn't like George W. and the people in Florida that voted for him.