On Apr 11, 2004, Lorraine and Kaye went on a trip to the Golden Egg Museum and Ranch in Hsinchu with Kaye’s friend Gareth (with his father, Michael) and our next door neighbors Shen-Shen, Pipi, and Dandan (and their parents). They had a wonderful day . . . feeding the ostriches, picking and coloring eggs,…

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Corbett Wall posts a montage of photos in which White House folks display a moment of rare candor, discussing penis size.

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Scott Sommers has an interesting breakdown on the Geographic Distribution of Foreign English Teachers in Taiwan. There are some bits which may just surprise you. Well, I didn’t expect them. Thanks for doing that breakdown, Scott. Either you’re really fast at all this work you put into your blog or you’ve got waaaayyyyy too much…

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Noah at Ugly Expat reposts a nice list of items that demonstrate that one really shouldn’t rely too heavily upon Bible quotes when discussing issues of modern morality as those who stick to a literatl interpretation of the Bible are more than likely to run into sticky waters very quickly. While your faith and your…

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ThePencil Carving Gallery is rather interesting. I never would have thought of this . . . these guys have skills.

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We went to Banchiau last night for supper and had dinner at Tasty. As always, Kaye wanted to draw but this time – as often is the case – we forgot to bring some paper. So, as she often does, Kaye drew on the paper table cloth. She did a rather large piece showing scale…

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Neil Gaiman points out that one of the problems with anti-terrorism laws is that they can be used on folks for whom the laws were never intended with chilling consequences. He presents the example of a fellow who is definately guilty of a bit senselessness and perhaps stupidity who made a deadly poison. Prosecutors assumed…

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These are silly and stupid and probably cruel but perhaps just a tad funny the better way to waste your day . . . don’t do any of this as it’s stupid and cruel, but the read is worth a laugh or three.

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The publisher of a novel by Lynne Cheney has canceled the reissue as the Second Lady says it doesn’t represent her best work. Some are saying the lesbian theme and the racier bits might embarras the Bush-Cheney ticket as the continue to cater to conservative voters – particularly as homosexual marriage becomes an issue. See…

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One thing folks should keep in mind when looking at the

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Well, first there was dogging – sex with strangers in public (see the faq) . . . now, there is toothing. Toothing is a new fad where folks with cellphone devices that have bluetooth capability anonymously meet strangers on the MRT or the like for random bits of anonymous sex. See the articles in Wired…

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We’ve seen a lot on gay marriage of late . . . and regular readers of this blog know my stance . . . now others are trying to expand the definition of marriage even further to include polyamorists. While the case for consensual bigamy or polygamy or polyandry or group marriage can be made…

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I went to KU for a couple years . . . long ago, when dinosaurs walked the Earth . . . yep, this captures some of the experience. The pot smoking gallery is certainly familiar . . . not that I ever toked up, being the straight-laced fellow that I am, but I do remember…

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Hot Abercrombie Chick has discovered the joys of being too prevalent and too popular in that there is much speculation that she doesn’t actually exist, so her response: Yesterday, after my absence from blogging for a few days to work on the final drafts of some essays, I noticed the whole set of hoax allegations…

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This is old news but the group of high school girls who originally contracted to make a porn film to pay for their senior party have bowed out. However, the company that had set out to make the film now has contracts with severn other groups of girls. While all of the participants are of…

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Not sure if that cute girl sending you e-love-letters is really a guy having a laugh . . . enter The Gender Genie. Just plug in the text you want to have a looksee at and the gender genie uses an algorithm to determine if the writer is male of female. Warning . . .…

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The New York Times reports that the

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This image of John Ashcroft is perfect . . . be sure to click on the thumbnail to see the image up close and personal. Irony and satire all in one. I wish someone would do a portrait of me that way.

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Type Life of Brian into the pornonombre and see what you get. Then, give your own name a go.

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Donald Kennedy writes persuasively on a recent trend in the United States where members of formerly merit-based independant scientific and academic review panels are being screened for political views rather than scientific merit. Folks are now being hired for academic and scientific advisory councils based upon their political views and loyalties to the Bush agenda…

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The current scare going through the adult industry related to two male performers being diagnosed as HIV+ demonstrates a couple things. One, the speed with which responsible companies have reacted in halting filming and stepping up testing in order to find anyone who may have been infected by the men. Two, that the adult entertainment…

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