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About Me

"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grand children's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

My Interests

Classic Liberalism, Science, Critical Thought, Economics

I'd like to meet:

Carl Sagan and his prescience.

Music:

Antony and the Johnsons, Steve Reich, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Joanna Newsome, Colleen, Palisades, The Americas, Gnarls Barkley, Diane Cluck, The Red Robot, Don Cabellero, Ghostface Killah, Battles, The Velvet Teen, David Bazaan, Coco Rosie, Triosk, Old Dillinger Escape Plan, Leslie Fiest, The Smiths, Hem, Grizzly Bear, Efterklang, Geoff Farina, Nick Drake, Lords, Julie Doiron, Hanne Hukkelberg, Lullaby for the working class, MAKE BELIEVE, OWLS!!, Old Of Montreal, TVOTR, Mirah, blah, blah blah blah blah

Movies:

meaningoflife.tv/edge.org

Television:

fora.tv

Books:

"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us -- then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.....The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as A Candle In the Dark

Heroes:

PSM, EDWARD O. WILSON, Spinoza, Milton and Rose Friedman, CARL SAGAN, John Stuart Mill, Julia Sweeney, Richard Dawkins, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Hitchens, Kurt Vonnegut, REASON, Steven Hawking, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Richard P. Feynman, Spinoza, Howard Zinn, PENN AND TELLER, My Washington State, Garrison, Charles Darwin!, Rachel Carson, Steven J. Gould, LP, Karen Armstrong, Jana Detrick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, SKEPTIC!, Skeptical Inquirer, CSICOP, Kristina Hinds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, DAVID HUME, MY BELLINGHAM HOME, Soren Kierkegaard, DENIS KUCINICH, THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, FRED TABOR, HEATHER WEAVER, Mary Wollstonecraft, Noam Chompsky, J.D. SALINGER!!!...