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  • Going home and seeing some marriages that weren't going as well as I hoped has made me a little sad about marriage recently. I've been thinking a lot more about how much thought needs to put into working things out befo…

  • Time for my yearly "wow, small-town Oregon and south LA really are different!" post. Some of these differences aren't things I grew up with, but the result of my parents having moved into the country after I left home (…

  • A great rabbi stands teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife’s adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. (There is a familiar version …

  • I'll preface this article by saying that this is yet another one of those debates where I hate both of the main players in the argument: Science throws out anti-religious propaganda yet again At first you have the blat…

  • Final update on the surgery. It's taken a greater toll on me than I thought. People have been asking me if I was sick all week long, and today a ton of students expressed concern about my "pale" and "withdrawn" appeara…

  • Hurricane Katrina Doesn't Care About Wealthy or White People Although news reports, celebrities, and anti-Bush screamers may have created a different impression, deaths from Hurricane Katrina turn out not to be concentr…

  • Update on recovery: I've gotten to the point where I can walk around normally now. I don't feel like I can run or jump or do anything athletic though. Sitting in almost any position is okay, but getting up can be pain…

  • This must be why I always leave my car unlocked. (disclaimer - I still hate diamonds and do not actually wish to own any). On a different note, random things that I have been discussing in recent days. Reply if you…

  • As I'm sitting here resting (my first day back to work was happily a half-day for our school, so I'm home early) I might as well throw in a random political post. Ever since college I have been arguing with myself on wh…

  • pain pain pain pain pain pain pain pain pain The "lets do this without pain medication" experiment ends after 8 hours.

  • So I had a hernia operated on today. Some thoughts... Everything about getting surgery feels scary and foreboding. It's not their fault at all - the nurses and doctors just take all of the precautions possible. But ev…

  • Another episode of living in LA weirdness... I went to Home Depot at 6am to buy some more supplies for my physics class. My first thought was, "huh, looks sorta busy for this early in a Monday morning." I started noti…

  • You ever have those moments where something so out-of-the-ordinary occurs that you don't understand what just happened, and you're not sure you ever will? I had two of those moments tonight. Quite odd. First, about ha…

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