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September 11 was over two and a half years ago. The main architectural symbol of our country's liberty, the Statue of Liberty, remains ...

During the '80s, a word many of us used proudly in the '70s practically became practically a swear in the mouths of right-wing extre...

The point of my countdown this week has been to announce that today is my last day at Pitt. I'm starting a new job on Monday with PennF...

I heard Richard Clarke say something yesterday that people from our government never say:      We failed you...I failed you... Politicians a...

And, as of today, Dead People Server has had its 3,000,000th visitor in just over five years. Not bad for a site without any advertising a...

I've read many reviews of The Passion of the Christ . I decided I just couldn't see it due to its violence and historical revisionis...

Oh well... The Lord of the Rings movies made me a huge fan of Viggo Mortensen. I was never much of a fan of his until late in the movie Fel...

Is Ralph Nader getting paid off by the Republicans to run? [[3/29/2004 - it turns out the answer was sort of , so I guess my fantasy wasn...

As I've mentioned in here once or twice, I've been having a longtime battle with insomnia. Like lifelong. In the past, the insomni...

Only a boob would show her boob on broadcast television. And only a boob would rip the shirt in the first place. I'm not that much of a...

Cyanide Found in Texas... ("60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases, plus pamphlets...

We went to see Trilogy Tuesday last week, seeing two extended edition LOTR movies followed by the premiere of ROTK. Line for Trilogy Tuesday...

This is all Neil Gaiman's fault. He said he found the politics self-test at the Political Compass site fascinating. I must say, he w...

Before I became a Hugo or Nebula fan, I was (and am) an Oscar fan. Despite the fact I have wildly mixed feelings about popular awards (don...

( Permanent link to this essay ) People frequently use other people as props. This is most common in families - think of the way most paren...

I was at an early evening party in Pittsburgh tonight. It was cold but fairly clear, and a number of us put our coats on and went out on th...

Another wedding, another driving trip to Massachusetts (some ten hours away): From the left, Rachel with her fiance Jeff Trask (brother of t...

Around getting caught up with some Noreascon 4 stuff this weekend, we went to the movies twice. We saw Under the Tuscan Sun (a mostly cha...

Jim and I were up in Massachusetts attending Jim's brother Bill's wedding: (from left) Laurie, Leslie, Jim, Bill, Heather, Bill and...