Yesterday, some lake in Hollis, Maine was the epicenter of the Great New England Earthquake of 2012. The best local news interview quote of the night about the little 4.0 earthquake? Some guy really did say, "I felt my toes tingle a little bit."
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Freedom of Speech not an excuse to incite because we are offended
Protection of the speech that we find offensive is critical to protecting our right to speak. If we ban our opponent's right to speak because we find their words are offensive, then we open the door to someone banning our rights (not just the right to speak, but perhaps even the right to worship) for the same reasons. Second, each of us as a fellow human control our own selves, and it is our responsible to not harm others. Words by themselves are irrelevent to our actual actions unless we are part of a conspiracy to act together to harm others (such as in the case of gangs that are ordered by their leaders to commit crimes). The only people who should be held accountable for the actions of killing another are those who did it and those who told them to do it. Being offended by the words of our opponents is no excuse for harming others.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
No clouds come
For whatever reason, when there's not a cloud in the sky in Massachusetts, there really isn't any cloud, even contrails. That always seems wierd to this California transplant.
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