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Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Extraordinary Machine By: Fiona Apple Year: 2005 Click here for the artists site

Reply to Open mouth, insert foot, leg, and goodly amount of torso in Politics JoeUser Forums

Thanks everyone. Glad to hear your words of encouragement. I am new to the world of blogging, after all, thanks to much influence from the incomparably priggish BlueDev . . .

Open mouth, insert foot, leg, and goodly amount of torso in Politics JoeUser Forums

As I've already explained in the comments to my last blog, I was really mad when I wrote that post. Looking back at it twenty four hours later, I realize that I don't even agree with a lot of the things that I said in that post. Of course I don't support illegal immigration, and if I had taken half an hour to cool myself down and think about it before writing that,

Reply to The "Problem" with Illegal Immigration in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Thank you everybody, for your comments. Thanks especially to Demosthenes, who I think said it best: "For anyone who has stated that breaking the law is not the appropriate way to make a point, bear in mind that Martin Luther King, Jr broke many laws in his time, yet I doubt anyone here would say he was wrong." I won't lie, when I wrote this article this morning I was in a pissy mood, I was sick, and I had just heard from a friend of mine that has

Reply to The "Problem" with Illegal Immigration in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

"Sometimes it is an accident of birth." That's a good point, Dr. Guy, but it doesn't change the fact that we need to find a way to make those who are here legal and make the immigration situation easier to navigate and survive. I really don't expect anyone to truly understand the situation until they see it from the other point of view. Until you've spent time among illegal immigrants, seen their efforts to enter this country (for their children's s

Reply to The "Problem" with Illegal Immigration in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

the problem is that nobody seems willing to do anything to change anything. I don't understand why we should deprive these people the rights that we have. The only reason the majority of us have the "American entitlements" we enjoy is because we were born in this country! It's not like most of us did anything to be given these rights, we just were conceived in the right uterus at the right time in the right place! Why should we deny others b

The "Problem" with Illegal Immigration in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Here in the "great" state of Utah, we have a "problem" with illegal immigration. Or so the usual writers to the opinion pages of the local papers would have us believe. They make it sound as though our very way of life, our world, is coming to an end because of all this immigration. We have a strong contingent of the border "Minutemen" here in the state, and the

Reply to The state of Utah and the debate over evolution in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thank you, Furry. It means a lot. I didn't mean to offend anyone, I didn't mean to "deepen the divide", as Gideon ensued, I just wanted to explain something. My friend was telling me of a group in Kansas that started a joke church that "believed" that the universe was created by a spaghetti-and-meatballs creature that pretty much made us out of marinara sauce. But - now, they have a huge following on the internet; it's become a "theory held by

Reply to Reviving "The Prog Geek" in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Snobs? We're snobs now? I'm offended! *sniff* I perfer the word "officious", rather than "snobbish".

Reply to The state of Utah and the debate over evolution in Religion JoeUser Forums

"where do you draw the line between a 'well-rounded' education and one that includes every unsubstantiated claim going? Should schools teach children about good dental care, but also about the tooth fairy? Should they educate children to enable them to make moral choices, or explain that they have no free will because of which sign of the zodiac they happened to be born under? Open the door to one academically uncontestable assertion, and you've got to

Reply to Sometimes a skin. . . in Icons JoeUser Forums

Looks like my powerbook . . .it's cool. It makes a PC much more appealing, I'm sure. But when your computer already has icons very similar . . . Oh well. Such is life. Darn good lookin' though.

Reply to The state of Utah and the debate over evolution in Religion JoeUser Forums

I agree that it can and should be discussed in a humanities situation. When I was in high school, I took a world religions class, and we talked about most major religions and their beliefs regarding the beginning of the world, the Genesis account included. And that is exactly where it should be. But in Utah, you have to take Biology to graduate - it's the only of the four sciences that they offer that is a for-sure thing. So there is no elec

The state of Utah and the debate over evolution in Religion JoeUser Forums

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the state of Utah, but if there's one thing Utah has going for it, it's lots of Mormons. They make up over half the population of the state, after all. Now, that's not a bad thing, don't get me wrong - I do happen to be one myself, so I can't go hating on the population of which I am a part - but it does lend itself to

The First Time in Welcome JoeUser Forums

I always feel like an idiot when I start a blog. I think to myself, "why am I doing this to myself again? Why am I going to put my thoughts and feelings back out here for everybody and their dog to see?" I don't know why, but I continue to do it anyway. So that's the sum of it. I'll write my thoughts and feelings, and any and all of you are more than welcome to comment,