It's getting pretty romantic. You really like this person. Butterflies, tension. But, how do I express these feelings? What if I push my face against hers so our lips smack together? Ah yes, that's the stuff. The kiss seems very odd to me. What is about a kiss that feels so pleasant? There's probably a real answer for this, but I had a thought this morning as I leaned in, puckered up and felt the soft, cool pleasing touch... of water from a water fountain. Does a kiss remind us of being quenched?

So, people like to rave about places where fish is the freshest. Whenever I go to the East coast in the summertime, I always get a lot of seafood, often caught that day. If you eat crabcakes in Kentucky, people will say you're wasting your money, 'cause it can't be fresh. Is it possible to get beef or chicken anywhere that's caught that day? And is the difference as significant as freshly caught, never frozen seafood? What makes seafood so unique in this regard?

What about a voluntary "do not sell to me" sticker that alcoholics can have embedded on their driver's license if they choose? So, they can get the sticker on one of their strong days, and it will be harder to succumb on one of their weaker days?

(continuation) #4. James Madison In order to stop British troops from harassing American ships in trade, Madison thought that it would be a good idea to invade and seize Canada, sovereignly ruled by Britain, in order to obtain a good bargaining chip for establishing U.S. neutrality on the seas. Only, he didn't prepare very well to engage in this battle, and the War of 1812 killed 2,260 American troops over the next three years. Even with this, U.S. neutrality on the seas was still not recognized until Britain's war against Napoleon ended in victory.

Was Robin Hood good? Explain your answer. Show your work.

Teacher accountability is good. Creating an incentive for teachers to teach better is good. But, sacrificing recess, music and art to pass subjective tests is not. Any starting thoughts?

I feel guilty about how happy eating makes me. If I get an msg-laden brown bag full of Chinese food, my brain soon reaches ethereal bliss. I become happy, not due to circumstance, but due to ingredients. And I don't like this about myself. While, I condemn other drugs to be an unhealthy mental escape for people, how different is this food for me? It's the robot mentality in me that wants a Flintstones vitamin complete dietary intake, so that I will not escape sorrow with anything but the answer to it.

So, this girl at work let me borrow her Planet Earth DVDs. This stuff is absolutely crazy. I think that some of these Christian stations should give up one hour of broadcasting a day, and replace it with one of these episodes. I can't imagine a more compelling visual evidence for a Creator God than seeing these crazy, absolutely made-up looking animals in the vast corners of the Earth. The show's narrator does a pretty good job explaining how godless evolution could create the utilitarian features that we see these animals display. But, he can't explain the aesthetic amazement.

(visually minimalistic, but bright office environment) cut to man sitting at his desk who pulls out an encyclopedia sized reference book off his desk entitled, "Tic Tac's 1.5 Calorie Exercise Guide" man opens to page that contains a silhouetted man leaning back in his desk chair, laughing. Underdeath the photo it says, 3 calories = 2 Tic Tacs. He spins around in his chair, and trips a second man walking by. The second man falls, and the first man leans back in his desk chair, laughing loudly. He regains composure and pops two tic-tacs in his mouth. cut to shot of tic-tac box on a white background. narrator says, "Tic-Tacs. Only 1.5 calories each." cut to first man chasing the second man down the hall trying to trip him again.

I think Bush lost. He's at a 20% approval rating, and a large amount of people would categorize him as the worst President of all time. While I attribute this mainly to an ignorance of history, it's still very interesting to me. Because my contention is that most people do not disapprove of their current situation, but of the situation of others. For example, consumer confidence is the highest it's been in six years. Unemployment is at 4.5%, with an almost negligible real rate (the percentage of people who want to get jobs and can't attain them). It is unlikely that you or someone you know has been wrongly imprisoned due to lack of privacy enabled by the Patriot Act. And it is also unlikely, statistically, that you know someone who died in combat overseas in the last few years. And yet, we have condemned this man based largely on what we believe to be his negligence of universal principles that we believe in, not because of how we personally have been negatively affected. That's actually commendable. Just hard to completely understand.