A Thought: On the Importance of Doors

Building castles around the heart is important, but you've got to remember to put a door, else you'll starve the soul. Read more!

::Grinds teeth::

As a person in a terminal Master's program with nearly as many credit and lab requirements as a Ph.D. program, I have come to loathe the feeling I get every time someone in a doctorate field asks, "Why aren't you going for your Ph.D.?" or someone in another, far less intensive Master's program asks what's taking me so long.

You people are paying for my inevitable dental bills. Read more!

A Thought: On Unjust Veneration

While loss of life is always tragic, and to die young even more so, those who die as a result of their own foolish action should be remembered, at best, as cautionary tales, not venerated as heroes.
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A Thought: On the Responsibility of Change

I don't care for statements like, "Money changes people," or, "Power corrupts." They remove all responsibility from the person changing for the subsequent change.

A more accurate statement would be that people with money or power change. Nothing outside ourselves can force a particular change upon us. While we are often faced with situations which require adaptation, we always have a choice in how we are changed by them and rarely are the changes we make irreversible. Read more!

A Thought: On the Unbearable Burden of Pants

Did you ever find out that you had to do something and just think to yourself, "I feel like I've met my pants-wearing quota for the day?" Read more!

A Thought: On Relative Time

At what point in my life did things go so horribly awry that I now consider 9:30am a late morning appointment? Read more!

A Thought: On the Necessity of Primary Sources

I treat arguments over information found on the internet, be they scientific, political or otherwise, the same way I do those about religion or The Constitution.

If you only have a passing familiarity with the primary source, I'm not likely to give it much time or credence. Read more!

A Thought: On Keeping Around the Better Parts

If someone's been in your life for the better part of a decade or more and you still consider them one of the better parts, chances are, they're worth keeping around. Read more!

eBay...

Because it isn't just in games that you should get to scream, "Damn it! Just put a buy it now button!" at the idiots who think that their real life greys are going to start a bidding war. Read more!

A Thought: On the Burden of Self-Awareness

It is not enough to recognize your flaws. Once you've done so, you have a responsibility to do everything you can to rectify them.

It may be a battle that lasts a lifetime, but it will be one that is always worth fighting. Read more!

A Thought: On the Risk of Death

In the growing cultural obsession with postponing our inevitable demise, it's becoming more and more common to see the phrase, "if you do/don't do this or that, you're increasing your risk of death."

I find it funny, every time. To use the word risk implies that, somehow, if we follow the proper rituals or cultivate the proper diet or what have you, we can manage to avoid dying.


It's a waste of time focusing on how long until we die when it could be better spent reveling in how long we have left to live. Read more!

A Thought: On What We May Sacrifice

Someday, I hope we come to realize that the only thing we have a right to sacrifice, for any cause, is ourselves. Read more!

A Question to Those Who Would Fight Tyranny

While I do not in any way advocate violence, because it serves little lasting purpose, I do ask those who keep claiming that Americans need guns to stand up to those who would take away our rights any time someone even mentions tightening gun control, what rights, other than that to bear arms, are you talking about?

Our education system is crumbling, with children being packed like sardines into classrooms falling apart to be taught only the basic facts necessary to pass standardized tests created by companies with no educational background, thus causing us to slide further and further behind countries whose citizens understand that education, more than anything else, is the way to drive an economy.

Millions of Americans fall victim to profit-based privatized health care system, driven by pharmaceutical and insurance industries, causing us to have health numbers and mortality rates rivaling those of third world nations.

Banks and big businesses receive massive subsidies while small businesses are crushed under laws bought from career Congressmen by said large ones to ensure their oligopolies are maintained as they squeeze the life from their workers, one paycheck at a time, cutting jobs while posting profits.

State governments loot their coffers and destroy their states, one backdoor deal at a time, all the while erecting, along with Congressmen who can hold their jobs for life, a masterful smokescreen that makes the average person think it's all the fault of the evil president, who actually has as much power domestically as any one of them.

So, again, I ask, when, exactly, are you going to start standing up for those rights that you need your guns to protect?

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A Thought: On the Value of Losing Everything

It isn't until we've lost everything that we can truly understand the value of anything. Read more!

A Thought: On a Too Dark World

Sometimes the world only seems so dark because we've forgotten to open our eyes to the light that surrounds us. Read more!