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Want to feel better? Here's my first recommendation. When I don't get enough, I can feel the difference.

Here's what I wrote five years ago. I'd like to say that I didn't think it would get this bad in America obviously I did: "Like most of America, I was stunned by today's terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and against the Pentagon. I'm sure that the sadness I feel for those directly impacted by today's events is shared by the whole...

Osment is great, Jude Law is great, Teddy Ruxbin (or whatever the doll is called) is great. The other acting performance are hit or miss. The visuals are very good. The second half of the movie is better than the first, but that's not saying much. On the whole, it's 2.5 hours of your life you'll never get back. The first false ending, a downer for sure,...

Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose. Better than the original.

Jonathan Clements' recent article about money and happiness ("Money and Happiness: Here's Why You Won't Laugh All the Way to the Bank") raised several crucial points deserving of wide-spread publication. First, this notion: "...once you're safe and warm and fed, it [money] makes surprisingly little difference" in improving a person's level of happiness....

I spent a couple hours yesterday at the court house fulfilling my civic obligation to serve as a juror. Some approximately 90 of us arrived in the court house basement by the allotted 8:15 AM check-in time. Of those 90, 8 were grand jurors with a two week stint rather than the "one day, one trial" affair for which most of us were summoned. Turns out that 8...

What's changed between the 1977 release and the modern updates? See for yourself. (Tip o' the hat to Dave for the link)

At long last I finished insulating the garage Monday afternoon. As a project it'd been 90 percent done for some time. This issue was brought to a head by the response of my selection drywall vendor who when asked when he could start said, "How's tomorrow?" Well, tomorrow was just great. Except that it wasn't really. With a soccer game in Portland on Monday...

MySpace is a social networking site that's all the rage with the under 25 set these days. It is, on the whole, incredibly juvenile in content and remarkably ugly in appearance. It is also the number one site on the Internet right now, so they're doing something right, namely making it very easy for the masses to "speak their piece" (no matter how insipid...

Props to Matt for the link. Your Political Profile: Overall: 45% Conservative, 55% Liberal Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal How Liberal Or Conservative Are...