January 2010
LOST!
Jessica and I have been watching old episodes of LOST (Seasons 2 and 3) the past few days. We’re about to finish season 3 within the hour and will start on Season 4 tonight. :)
December 2009
Happy New Year's Eve.
“I don’t wish ill on anyone, but that doesn’t mean ill on certain...”
– SamSeder
Treadmill: Day 26
6:30 PM
327 Calories Burned
Speed: 4.0 mph
Time 30:00 min
Distance: 2 miles
Incline : 1.0
Back in the saddle again...whew.
Treadmill: Day 25
3:00 PM
374 Calories Burned
Speed: 3-4.0 mph
Time 45:00 min
Distance: 2.747 miles
Incline : 0-1.0
It’s not easy getting back into this after taking a week off. My left leg started burning about 20 minutes in, so I slowed it down for a while and sped it back up.
#1
whyweshouldnthavekids:
…because Michael is an atheist and I am Lutheran.
I think that this is probably the biggest reason why I am not ready to have/adopt/foster kids with Michael. We have such differing views on religion and I wouldn’t want to bring a child into our argument. I would want to take said child to church and send to a parochial school. Michael is a public school teacher and...
Bluecross can't wait-- the blood sucking begins →
jasencomstock:
As health care costs continued to rise and our members’ utilization of health care services continued to increase, we found it necessary to change the benefits structure of our Personal Choice plans to keep premiums as affordable as possible.
Read: Costs are rising, and members are using too much health care.
The two new plans, Personal Choice-Basic and Personal Choice-Value...
Just got back from a Jim Gaffigan show...
…hot pocket..
“If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover...”
– Sam Harris (via savagemike) (via friendlyatheist) (via atheistramblings)
Hey ladies, a bit of advice...
hereblog:
UGGs make you look immature and self-unaware. I can’t tell you how many times I have been attracted to a woman until I noticed her UGGs. Is she a high schooler trying to look older? Is she a college-age sorority robot? Is she a post-college arrested-development wanna-be? Either way, I’m not interested, and neither are my extremely attractive, sophisticated friends.
I know the above...
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: an atheist... →
friendlyatheist:
Why does this good atheist family cling to Santa and why is Christmas our favorite holiday? We explain this every year, because for reasons we don’t understand atheists aren’t supposed to like Christmas. But lots of us do.
I’d be curious to find out how many atheists among us on Tumblr like Christmas, too.
Submitted by kurafire
I’m an atheist who enjoys christmas, not...
Thursday, December 24, 2009
atheistchurchgoer:
Today I didn’t go to the same church. I went to the church my wife grew up going to. This service was possibly set up a little different because it was Christmas Eve. There was a lot of singing…my mother in law was in the church choir. One thing I noticed, my wife is hooked on the NIV bible, yet at this church they use ESV, curious.
The service started out with a song and...
Don’t be Stupid About Christmas →
azspot:
1) The X in X-mas is not a serious issue, if it is for you, it may merely reveal an ignorance of Church History.
2) Jesus was not born on December 25. Seriously, He wasn’t.
3) The wise men did not show up at the manger scene. More than likely they showed up years later. They also did not smell like smoke, even though they “came from a fire.’”
4) Contrary to the scene on your...
Flashback of the Day
jasencomstock:
abcsoupdot:
via zoewithtwodots:apsies:savagemike:
When Sen. Al Franken objected to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s request for additional time, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that in his 20-plus years in the Senate he had never heard a senator do that before. However, a Political Wire reader sends this excerpt from the Congressional Record from October 10, 2002: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The...
Town Names That Are Fun To Say, Pt. 1:
jasencomstock:
notthatkindagay:
inothernews:
phunkyfresh:
inothernews:
“Quogue”
“Massapequa”
“Shinnecock.”
bangor!
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Kalamazoo?
Treadmill: Day 24
4:00 PM
173 Calories Burned
Speed: 4.0 mph
Time 15:00 min
Distance: 1 mile
Incline : 1.0
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3 sets of 10 Bicep Curls (2-25 lb.dumbells)
30 shrugs (2-25 lb. dumbells)
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Treadmill: Day 24 (Part 2) 4:30 PM 173 Calories Burned
Speed: 4.0 mph
Time 15:00 min
...
“…also, if there is a god, why did he make me an atheist?”
– Ricky Gervais on Inside the Actors Studio (via whyinthehell) (via friendlyatheist)
Who else isn't working today?
Time to do some squaw work and catch up on tv shows / TYT.
Top 10 Albums of the Decade.
alexkarpicke:
I saw Bill’s post on this and liked the idea very much. I also thought his picks were very appropriate in spanning the decade. I don’t know that mine will be as good as his, but it’s worth a try. I will probably have to look up some release dates so they’re not all from 2007.
10. American Football - American Football (1999) - Mike Kinsella has been making music for a long time (as...
WatchJimmy Fallon, Horatio Sanz, Julian Casablancas, and the Roots-“I Wish it was Christmas Today”
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates... →
armeck:
atheistramblings:
“According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.”
Treadmill: Day 23
10:00 PM
327 Calories Burned
Speed: 4.0 mph
Time 30:00 min
Distance: 2.0 miles
Incline : 1.0
More stories of losing 100lbs. or more from... →
Guy loses 331 pounds from bicycling and eating... →
Treadmill: Day 22
9:30 PM
374 Calories Burned
Speed: 3-4.0 mph
Time 45:00 min
Distance: 2.667 miles
Incline : 1.0
“The point is to redirect your thinking from “Do I think these shoes are worth...”
– The Meaningless Discount » Sociological Images (via notemily)
Radical New Idea: Medicare Buy-In For Everyone
You only need 51 senators to pass a bill through reconciliation. But theoretically the main problem with reconciliation is that it can only be used for legislation that affects the budget. So, a public option or Medicare buy-in would definitely affect the budget, but getting rid of insurance practices like barring people for pre-existing conditions or denying them care through rescission could not...