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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay Rights

    It would also solve a great number of problems if everyone did what I said without question.

    Oct 10, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: ok, so heres the deal

    Dan, Living expenses here vary greatly. For a 700 sq. ft. apartment you can pay anywhere from $2200 to $450 a month. For more on this, you might check out: ...

    Oct 9, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: ok, so heres the deal

    Sabradan-- As you probably know, I'm in the Houston/Galveston area. Of all the areas I've lived in, I have to say this is probably the best, for my tastes. Houston ...

    Oct 8, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay Rights

    I'm reminded, at this point, of a wonderful point Borges makes in one of his articles: 'The original is not faithful to the translation...' It's a much more interesting point ...

    Oct 8, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay Rights

    I was always under the impression religious folk operated off the paradigm "Hate the sin, love the sinner." As an aside, I find it interesting that homosexuality is the only ...

    Oct 7, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: War in Iraq

    Common Sense-- My post already addressed the issues Dr. Paul brought up in his article. Since you didn't provide much in the way of substance to your argument, I read ...

    Oct 6, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: War in Iraq

    Common Sense-- 1. Congress voted to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Period. They conferred upon the President the ability to use the US Army to enact this legislation. So what ...

    Oct 6, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: War in Iraq

    Common Sense -- What, exactly, is "unconstitutional warfare"? To wit, the Constitution divides war into the two bodies: Congress, who is to declare war, and the President, who is to ...

    Oct 4, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Existence of God

    As an aside, Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was almost exclusively non-hominid, instead focusing on plants, turtles (he loved turtles), and, to a degree, chimpanzees. It wasn't until much later ...

    Sep 6, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: College Search

    logosgale-- Yale has an excellent creative writing department headed by some of the most brilliant fiction writers of our times. The University of Houston is also in the top five ...

    Sep 4, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Existence of God

    When I glimpse the comments made here, I think something needs to be clarified. Too often, particularly devious in American politics, there is an abundance of ignorance about what it ...

    Aug 23, 2007
  • Official Polls Re: Which Planet Would You Travel To?

    Venus (Fur) obvious reasons...

    Aug 17, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Global Warming

    "And on the sixth day, God said unto man: 'And this is the earth--take it, rape it, it's yours.'"

    Aug 8, 2007
  • Lounge, The Re: Who has a job?

    I'm a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in conjunction with the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. We work with dead things. I also teach freshman level calculus as a ...

    Aug 7, 2007
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: It's Gay Pride Month!

    Folks, folks... I don't care about God, so let's get back on topic... I think there's a very fine distinction to be made here: there is the biological imperative of ...

    Jul 20, 2007


I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.
— Vladmir Nabokov