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Category: Life

  • Coffeeshop Diaries #2

    I am getting extremely fond of today’s stay in Starbucks. After claiming a small table to the front of the counter (surprisingly quite easily, I might add), I bought a grande mocha frapp. For the first time in recent memory I was asked how many mocha pumps I’d like, which apparently variated the sweetness of…

  • Comics: A-Babies vs X-Babies

    BABIES. BEAUTIFUL BABIES. AND SO: GET A COPY!! Marvel’s newest one-shot (not to be confused or associated with the more adult AvX event) is set in Marvelous Meadows, and it features a stand-off between all our favorite characters. I don’t even care about the story, or the technical details (though on both ends this comic definitely…

  • Politics & Culture: the old issue of Sotto

    Several weeks ago, a buzz cropped up regarding the many cases of plagiarism committed by Senator Sotto (in assembly). It was revealed that he had lifted words of his speech against abortion from different bloggers. This article Why Tito Sotto’s plagiarism matters is a well-written account of what happened and some of its implications. To quote, …the senator had…

  • Politics: featuring Todd Akin, the sexist and the stupid

    “Sexist” and “stupid” may or may not refer to Todd Akin. And Paul Ryan. I am so exited for November 6 to come and pass. Seeing all of the articles about certain forms of stupidity and misogyny (particularly from the Republicans) and hearing about them make me so frustrated. :/ I’m not even American. Given…

  • Science: Is this for real, rd?

    To all those challenging doors –there’s an explanation for you, now! Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway…

  • I stand on the brink of a great revolution, in sight of my fearless progeny. This journey leaves me breathless, my mind quivering, my soul reaching, always reaching, as I wait for it to cross my path, like thunder striking the lonely traveler, a I charge to search it, the willful collision of a starving…

  • Originally posted on AwayPoint: Coauthor:  Tony Nugent, Ph.D. This decade has been called, “The Mormon Moment,” the time that America’s largest home-grown religion finally comes into its own as a part of the Christian tapestry. Even some LDS quirks seem to be turning into positives.  Shifting sexual mores have made Mormon polygamy and sacred undergarments…

  • For the love of something

    is a completely irrelevant post title. Today I’d like to write about several things not actually related to some advocacy or social issue (EXCEPT THE ISSUE OF MY LIFE). Let me begin. The Fifth Bio Lab Exam I have SO MUCH RAGE it deserves to be underlined. I have never, in my life, been so…

  • Coffeeshop Diaries #1

    Context I was about to title this post as /HIPSTER DIARIES/, but then I realized that I am severely under-qualified to be a hipster. Values independent thinking? Check. Loves counter-culture, progressive politics, yada yada? Check. Hipster clothes? Uh, not in this century. So I am resolved to label this and all the following posts by…