As the Supreme Court gears up to hear oral arguments about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – pejoratively referred to by some as “Obamacare” – I’ve been reading up various commentaries and blog posts about the potential constitutionality. For example, NPR has a good, uncharged guide to the questions involved. However, my favorite […]
Yesterday I went to a sports bar named Sharkey’s for cheap wings and to watch SU (barely) beat UNC-Asheville in the first round of the NCAA tournament. I had been at the library working on an outline for <plug type=”shameless”>something I’ll be posting more about soon</plug>, and brought my bag into Sharkey’s so I could
Kennedy — the erstwhile MTV VJ (when MTV still had had Vs to J, and no that’s not a euphemism) — published an article over at Reason.com the other day explaining why she thinks atheism is a religion. As a mesotheist, I’ve often thought that some atheists exhibit some similar tendencies as theists, so I
Last night I had my first Shamrock Shake from McDonald’s. I’ve never been particularly interested in trying one before, even though I am perhaps a prime candidate for enjoying it considering I like both milkshakes and minty things. (Mint chocolate chip ice cream is totes yum!) But for some reason, last night felt like a
New Year’s Day is here. It’s considered a time of new beginnings, of fresh starts. People have made, or will be making, resolutions again. I’ve read that New Year’s resolutions have a low efficacy. Few people follow through on them. In my own experience, I tend to become distracted, or I forget my resolve, or
I’m not a big player of the basketball. I’ve dabbled from time to time — in my driveway, at church gyms and on summer camp courts — and while I’ve always enjoyed it, I’ve never been extremely driven to do much more than shoot around a bit and play the occasional pick-up game. My two
About six months ago, my daughter started going to an orthodontist based on a recommendation from her dentist. My initial reaction was somewhat skeptical — she’s only nine, surely she doesn’t need to see an orthodontist yet — but after the requisite lecture about how bad of a parent I would be to allow my
I tend to watch a lot of TV (by TV I mean mostly stuff I download or stream on Hulu, etc.). I justify it because I often watch it while doing other things: Preparing dinner, washing dishes, folding laundry, etc. But it also has become somewhat of a distraction. I feel like it frequently makes
I slept pretty darn good last night. Perhaps not long enough, but the sleep I got was deep. And, importantly, all at once. I tend to be a “middle-of-the-night” insomniac (really, that’s an actual type, acronymized as MOTN), falling asleep early and then waking up a couple hours later ready to hit the night life.
I’ve recently been re-ripping my entire CD collection to FLAC. It’s been kind of a pain in the ass, but I will be glad to have everything in a lossless format. It also untethers me from keeping my music collection in iTunes, which is kinda nice. I plan to jailbreak my iTouch and install vlc4iphone
