Thoughts on Halloween

The Geist of Halloween is abounds. This is significant; sometimes, holidays just don’t feel like holidays. The mind just won’t impose the right tertiary qualities to color our experience of the day. But today, it is Halloween, and all of us believe it. I flinch at the wind’s stirrings of leaves behind me as if [...]

Obligatory Halloween Post

No matter what you’re doing to celebrate the harvest this year, try to keep the Word Warrior in the back of your mind. I wanted to create this post so we can document both the amazing and wonderful costumes and the sexist/racist/homophobic/etc. costumes we see this year. So here’s your prompt:
What was the costume?
Where did [...]

Self-Indulgent Music Post

Who says everything we post in the Word Warrior has to be all cerebral and thought-provoking? I’m all about community too, and one of the things that I think community can be built on is music. Typically, I’m the mix cd type. I make mix cds and give them to my friends, and sometimes they [...]

The next information revolution?

Papyrus. The printing press. Digital silicates. Are nano-ceramics next?
Engineers have created a material that could hold a trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data in a chip the size of a fingernail — 50 times the capacity of today’s best silicon-based chip technologies.
The engineers, from North Carolina State University, said their nanostructured Ni-MgO system can store [...]

How many of your classmates believe in ghosts?

If you’re a freshman, about one in four. If you’re a senior, one in three:
[H]igher education is linked to a greater tendency to believe in ghosts and other paranormal phenomena, according to a new study.
Contrary to researchers’ expectations, a poll of 439 college students found seniors and grad students were more likely than freshmen to [...]

Guam archbishop: Gay-murdering terrorists have a point

Archbishop Anthony Apuron issued a statement on the highness of the stakes in Guam’s legislature’s proposed Bill 185, which would recognize same-sex civil unions. Apparently, he finds the stakes high enough to concede points to Islamic fanatics who horribly torture and murder homosexuals. Also, America is the Great Satan:
The culture of homosexuality is a culture of [...]

Protecting your kids, gender norms on Halloween

Tips from America’s Finest News Source on how to butch-up your sons.

All school and no bike rides make Logical Operator a very dull girl

My brain is fried from midterms (which are not over for me), so I leave you these links to one of my favorite blogs about Judaism and pop-culture. The links I bestow to you are about pornography, feminism, and Judaism. I personally agree with this view that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach holds about pornography. (Rabbi Boteach is [...]

If you’re not watching Glee…

… you were obviously not a drama/choir/band/theatre/forensics/debate/art/outcast/queer/nerd/etc. in high school. Like myself. And most of the people I associate with.
Do I love Glee for its underdog story of kids like me? Yes. Do I love it for making things like show choir, band and theatre universally cool? Yes, though where were you in 2000 when [...]

I would not have guessed

The Church of Scientology supported Prop. 8 last year.