Earlier today, a man named Joe Stack crashed his plane into an IRS building out of frustration with the federal government. In a long letter which he posted, full of misspellings and grammatical errors, he makes an interesting point: I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were [...]
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A truly awful post over at Queercents a few weeks ago deserves a proper analysis, and tonight I find myself with the time to do so. Ashley writes about the challenges of being transgendered: It seems to me that we Transgendered, as a group, are not overly prosperous. Oh, I know that some of us [...]
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I began reading Ayn Rand in my early 20s. I wasn’t a very happy person at the time. But, I had always enjoyed reading, and at some point I started reading philosophy books that I picked at random from whatever they had at the bookstore. One day, the random book I picked was “For the [...]
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While wandering around the web the other day, I came across this post. The author, Phil Villarreal, writes: As time continues to speed up and death draws closer, I become more and more convinced that TV sports and video games are a waste of time, and that by spending time staring at a TV in [...]
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Today on Queercents, I posted about the good side of commercialism: “My partner and I went to Gay Days at Disney World in Orlando for the first time in June of this year. You may have read stories in the press about the economic impact of this yearly event, but it’s not news to the [...]
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Over on Queercents, Marc posted about how he feels ostracized by the gay community for his beliefs. Actually he says LGBT community, but I’m going to distill that down to ‘gay’ to simplify my argument. I commented there, but I wanted to address a particular point at greater length. Defining the gay community “Gay community” is [...]
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As I was organizing some old photos today, I came across a picture I took of Steve Wozniak at the 1988 AppleFest (a conference for Apple II and Mac users) in San Francisco. I was fifteen years old at the time, and had an Apple IIGS, which I loved. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure what year the picture was [...]
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A friend of mine recently won the lottery… over $100 million. He stopped by my house to tell me in person. It’s interesting how news like this affects people. At first it felt like a dream – it just didn’t seem real. It was especially strange for me, because I have often repeated the saying that [...]
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