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Dick

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy

About Me

My name is Dick Allen. I study biology.
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan

“A nation that believes that it can live long, free and ignorant, believes what never was and never will be.”
-Thomas Jefferson

My Interests

Trozz

I'd like to meet:

Chomsky

Music:

The Doobie Brothers
Old Crow Medicine Show
The Mars Volta
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
Phoenix

Movies:

Instinct
The Edge
Lost in Translation
Spy Games
Club Dread
Wes Anderson Films
Backporch Films

Television:

Planet Earth
LOST
Wonder Showzen
King of the Hill
Science Channel
Top Chef

Books:

The Devil's Chaplain

Heroes:

Charles Darwin
Tommy Chong

My Blog

Modern Day Christian Myths

Every now and then I get (or hear about) these e-mails from Christians that are obviously a venting of frustration and an attempt to bolster their idea of themselves and their reasonableness.You proba...
Posted by Dick on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:21:00 PST

Marijuana Reconsidered

Mr. X By Carl Sagan This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest ...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:03:00 PST

Barack Obama

Obama, before the war.Pretty smart guy, huh"I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi mili...
Posted by Dick on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:38:00 PST

Nonsense can be a narcotic, too

Nonsense Can be a Narcotic, Too.by Jamie WhytePOLITICIANS DO NOT care for drugs. It is a topic like religion: since the established position is nonsense, established people do not like discussing it i...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:52:00 PST