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sapien

The Gregorian

About Me

I'm pretty normal, other than the fact that I'm 6'6'', an atheist, a libertarian, and a Laurel and Hardy junkie. But other than that...

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My Interests

Science, technology, skepticism (of pretty much everything) politics, basketball, weight-lifting, history, religion, philosophy, movies, TV, reading, writing (mostly in my blog)

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I'd like to meet:

Penn and Teller, James Randi, Norman Borlaug, Noam Chomsky, Bill Russell, Amy Goodman, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Ralph Nader, and Brian Lamb.. ..

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Music:

Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Melissa Etheridge, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Van Morrison, Howlin' Wolf, CCR, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Eagles, U2, John Mellencamp, Blues Traveler, the Temptations, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Tracy Chapman, John Croce, Three Dog Night, Bob Seger, B.B. King, Lenny Kravitz, Queen, Ray Charles

Movies:

the Godfather (1-3), the Shawshank Redemption, Do the Right Thing, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Unforgiven, Way Out West, Uncle Buck, Vacation (1-3), Innerspace, Willow, Braveheart, Taxi Driver, the Bridge on the River Kwai, Casablanca, the Deer Hunter, Rocky, To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Wars (all 6), E.T., Blues Brothers, Animal House, Up in Smoke, See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Stir Crazy, Annie Hall, the Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, the Last of the Mohicans, Million Dollar Baby, Dances with Wolves, the Silence of the Lambs, Napoleon Dynamite, the Waterboy, Dumb and Dumber, All About Eve, Team America, Baseketball, Orgazmo, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, the Exorcist, Rain Man, Spaceballs, the Maltese Falcon, American History X, Caddyshack, Awakenings, Hoosiers, the Jerk, the Sting, the Lord of the Rings (1-3), the Pianist, Crash, My Cousin Vinnie, Trading Places, Armed and Dangerous, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Fried Green Tomatoes (a chick-flick I know, but it's still pretty good, so shut up), High Noon, the Gold Rush, the General, Harlem Nights, Platoon, Good Will Hunting, Adventures in Babysitting, Open Range, the Unknown, the Color of Money, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Woodie Allen, Al Pacino, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Duvall, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Martin Scorsese, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Lon Chaney Sr., John Candy

Television:

Penn and Teller: Bullshit, House, C-Span, Dirty Jobs, Travel Channel, No Reservations, Passport to Europe with Samantha Brown, South Park, Mythbusters, Discovery Channel, Comedy Central, Pardon the Interuption, ESPN, All in the Family, the Twilight Zone, Pimp My Ride, 30 Days, I Love the (70's, 80's, 90's), the Daily Show, the Family Guy, the Simpsons, Married with Children, Keeping Up Appearances, the Charlie Rose Show, the Tavis Smiley Show, PBS, House Hunters

Books:

Edgar Allan Poe, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Freakonomics

Heroes:

Mom, Dad, sister, and, of course, Rebecca, the skepchick

My Blog

Bloggers Jailed Just For Protesting

I just HAD to post this because it pissed me off so much. As a fellow blogger, and frankly, as a human being, I am always disgusted when I hear about political bloggers being jailed just for their opi...
Posted by sapien on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:14:00 PST

Contrary Opinions I Have That Don’t Make Sense

I have come to realize that, as logic-minded as I think I am (or, as I want to be), I am entirely non-logic-minded. What I mean is I have a few beliefs that aren't based in sound logic, but rather in ...
Posted by sapien on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:45:00 PST

the 40th Anniversary of MLKs Death and Thoughts on Hero-Worshipping and Leader-Making

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did a lot of great things in his short lifetime. He used nonviolence to end segregation, he spoke out on behalf of the poor, and he protested the Vietnam War. All of which a...
Posted by sapien on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:28:00 PST

the Torture Playlist

Apparently, according to Mother Jones, this is the torture playlist used by American military prisons to torture prisoners by disorienting detainees with sleep deprivation, and capture shock. It is al...
Posted by sapien on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:21:00 PST

I Was Tagged!

Ok, it looks like I've been tagged. So, I need to write 10 things about me, and then tag ten other people who will have to write 10 things about themselves as a result of being tagged by me. So, here ...
Posted by sapien on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:42:00 PST

Is Hillary a Bitch?

I saw this clip of Sen. John McCain on a blog (which shall remain nameless). The blog said it was "not funny". First of all, what this clip doesn't show is McCain talking about how he respect...
Posted by sapien on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:02:00 PST

the Mistory Channel

I have been meaning to blog about this topic for a long time now, so it's good that I get this off my chest. The History Channel isn't a bad channel, by any means, as far as TV channels go. It often h...
Posted by sapien on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:24:00 PST

Why this Universe?

I was reading this quarter's Skeptic magazine, as I do everytime I receive it, and it had a very interesting article in it titled Why this Universe? I haven't even read half of it yet and already it h...
Posted by sapien on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:07:00 PST

Thoughts on Time Travel

Everytime I watch the movie Back to the Future I think about traveling through time. From what I understand of physics (which isn't much at all) things called wormholes might exist. They are paths, if...
Posted by sapien on Tue, 08 May 2007 05:43:00 PST

About My Candidacy in the 2008 Election

After careful deliberation and thought, my family and I have decided that I will not seek the nomination of the Gregorian party for president; despite the fact that recent polls have me in third place...
Posted by sapien on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:00 PST