Recent content by Richard Wagner

When I started reading that in 9th grade I didn't really understand it because of the language. Now I understand it perfectly, though I don't particularly enjoy it. And when I say that, people usually say it's because I "don't understand!".

lol, did you see Mickey Mouse holding his head in his left arm and smoking a cigarette? :laugh:

I have this in common with a lot of people here...

I've played the piano for many, many hours a day for the last two and a half years after playing in a desultory fashion when I was little. Recently I just stopped. The reason I stopped is because, maintaining your skills requires hours of practice every day. In addition, I'm unenthusiastic...

"The Mythic Dimension" by Joseph Campbell....a lot of it is over my head, but what I understand I agree with 100%......Joseph Campbell was very influential in the making of Star Wars.

I've been to Disney World (in florida) too many time to count....I don't like rides very much, but I just love the place...or at least, the concept of the place.

Well, I guess your counter-assertion that the guilt of whoever made the decision to illegally start a war and justify it with false confessions elicited through illegal interrogation procedures is not as aggregious as Nancy Pelosi lying about the CIA briefing, is your own opinion. With regards...

Is PC really a place where hating babies is a marginal trait anymore? I think times are changing and we're moving into a new era, where baby-haters and non-baby haters all have equal rights, where no one has to be persecuted for their stance toward babies.

This is, without doubt, one of the most interesting and important things in the news today.

Let's get one thing straight. First, people getting all huffy and puffy about Nancy Pelosi knowing about torture is a big fat joke. Of course she knew about it - just like the whole Republican administration knew about it. The hypocrisy of it now is that they want Nancy Pelosi to be first...

Well, here's a relatively harmless one.. Here's where I usually start to lose friends. Never really said this to anyone....

Any intermittent, erratic noise when I'm trying to sleep.

The answer is: nothing. Youtube is actually more exciting for a person to have a profile on.

Well, if you're referring to the pictures, I think the problem is that the people advising him on the issue were high in the chain of command when the abuses took place, and don't want people to find out that such abuses were orders from the top as opposed to just a few "bad eggs". Jane...

Well, at least there's that. Still, you'd have to be Forrest Gump or someone if his "suicide" doesn't look fishy to you. Also, Obama just made a gosh darn terrible decision not to release the photos of the abuse of the detainees. What a terrible, stupid, stupid mistake - it's not releasing the...