Suspension of Disbelief

Evolution is simply change from one form to another. Generally, it must by definition tend towards an upward or forward motion. Those new ideas that don't work are weeded out, but those that do continue and prosper. In this way evolution is a good thing for the species, but as you'll see, not always good for the individual. There are different kinds of evolution, insofar as we can group together its various forms into an undetermined number of subgroups based solely on one's perception of the change taking place. The evolution of love or friendship, for example, is perceptibly different than the evolution of the sizes of dinosaur species from the Jurassic Period to the Triassic Period. However, the same general concept of a pattern of change still exists. Now let's take our dinosaur example. At a time there existed the large hulking masses of the sauropods. Food was plentiful, so they could individually support their sizes. They multiply and their species domin...

Spread this near and far to every person who will listen. "The Cause of My Life" by Senator Kennedy July 18th 2009 In 1964, I was flying with several companions to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention when our small plane crashed and burned short of the runway. My friend and colleague in the Senate, Birch Bayh, risked his life to pull me from the wreckage. Our pilot, Edwin Zimny, and my administrative assistant, Ed Moss, didn't survive. With crushed vertebrae, broken ribs, and a collapsed lung, I spent months in New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. To prevent paralysis, I was strapped into a special bed that immobilizes a patient between two canvas slings. Nurses would regularly turn me over so my lungs didn't fill with fluid. I knew the care was expensive, but I didn't have to worry about that. I needed the care and I got it. Now I face another medical challenge. Last year, I was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Surgeons at Duke University Medical Ce...

1. Believe in yourself at least twice as much as you do now. 2. Sometimes it helps to pretend to be happy. You might forget why you're not for a bit and actually feel better. 3. Your successes are dependent largely on your outlook. 4. If you want something enough you can achieve it (short of resurrection of course). 5. If you aren't getting what you want, maybe you're looking in the wrong places. Maybe you don't really know what you want. 6. If you can't answer why you need something, then you don't really need it. You may need something else. 7. The biggest social handicap is worrying too much about others reactions to what you do. Just do it (legally of course) and worry less about possible negative outcomes. 8. Some relationships are fixable. But many times we misunderstand which are and which aren't. 9. Don't ever change who you are for another person. 10. You think you can do better than the person that you're with but you're ...

First I am a gay 22 year old male from MA. So lets get that out of the way. Because, undoubtedly it matters to some people. The movie was ridiculous in the most amazing ways. The antics of Bruno were completely out there and at points crazy (and very naked), but there was an underlying point to the film which, like Borat before it, tried to expose the bigotry of this nation, from formerly gay ministers to straight over-machismo to showing Ron Paul for the bigot he is. There are a lot of people who are going to be very offended by this movie because they will say that it detriments the GLBTQ movement. That it is too over the top to be taken seriously. I disagree. I sat in a theater with people my own age, straight couples and gay alike, in a not openly gay town. And we laughed. For the right reasons. There were points during it where two to three hundred people fell silent and stared in awe at the virulent bigotry that our nation of freedoms and liberties hides just beneath its surfac...

I dreamed that night of a perfect place, Sitting out beneath the crescent moon, Shadows flickering across our faces, Moonlight dazzling in our eyes as Our hands begin a slow symphony. With each heart beat the air grows warmer. Over the horizon our destiny lurks. And come what may -- but now, this night We are the banquet, each other the main course Tucked away are fears of what dawn will bring. Here and now we are two souls as one. For now, the rest of the world has fallen silent.

Some write of darkness, of pain, suffering, and plight whose agony knows no bounds or end. Others pen tales of daffodils, birthdays, and sunshine, freshly baked cookies, devotion, friendship and love a plenty. But my story is not so simple as light or dark, happy or sad. I cannot be put to float in a single boat. I am nine hundred thousand extremes, fighting for their place at a table that seats only eight.