oh NPR..

It is a curse, and a blessing when one finds the NPR comment forums.
I was unaware they existed (I really have just been ignoring them), and now cannot leave them alone.
Mostly, because I've found an alarming amount of comments have been from crazy, propaganda spreading fools. I mean some real Limbaugh and Coulter robots.

Is that wrong of me to say? Maybe, but I am truly sick of seeing the words "liberals", "leftist", "smears" and best of all: "communists" in any comment forum.

Seriously, is that the best you've got?
Not that the most recent person I'm debating is this crazy person, but I do have a bone to pick. SO when he's ready, we can talk about global warming right here.

Michael Crichton, cannot be used as reference to the "conspiracy of global warming" when he has supported someone like Senator Jim Inhofe, Who frequently uses the Bible as reference for his arguments!

He has also previously claimed that Global Warming is "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state".

Well there you have it, folks. After our founding fathers drilled into our heads that we needed separation of church and state, the Weather Channel used global warming to get better ratings..

And everything in the Bible is true.

What have I learned?

You have not "won" a debate if you get angry. In most cases, if you can't keep your cool, that is all the opponent sees. They will ride this all the way to the end, and it just makes the debate exhausting, even if you're right!

I'm learning slowly.

Squidley

I give you the elusive beer squid.

this is what happens

when religion is allowed to run the school system
(no, the ship has nothing to do with it)

"It has become an issue of religious Islamic curriculum against nonreligious secular curricula, and that is really very wrong. The issue should be, does our curriculum produce job-ready, university-ready candidates or not?"

I'm also opposed to just silencing vocabulary for political means (I don't see how anyone can rationally argue otherwise). Would it be so difficult to give students the text without glorifying the actions?

I think not. Ignorance can be far worse than letting words that give bad ideas into the classroom.
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Any-who, so my idea: I'm thinking of applying to University of South Florida's grad program for Fine Arts, and working with their science programs collaboratively. As most of my work recently has been about migration and hostile environments, I would like to take it a step further and focus on global warming.
Among many other great things, this gives me the chance to bring art and my love of atmospheric and marine sciences together. I'm very excited to get started!

i have a new and promising concept

and it involves animals :)
i'll have a better explanation when i'm not so worn out.

it is so good.

This is sort of funny, but also bears the question: Didn't Yoplait say to crush your cans?
So I may be on my way to Florida very soon, like a week or two. So I'll be able to concentrate on my work and saving money. Hopefully also finding a job in illustration and/or graphic design. . Good thing much of my work has been about wandering, because I sure do a lot of it.

in the end, no mice will be left behind

THANK YOU!
Though Atlanta really should've been number 2, at least it was in the top 5.

Also, oh my!

The stupid truly hurts, folks.

In other news, my boyfriend Douglas Scott (eleventhirtyfour.net) was mentioned on a podcast for 365 Days of Astronomy- A daily podcast for the International Year of Astronomy! What a clever man..

updates

Some updated work in progress(pardon the crazy color, no scanner at the moment)...AND..

cakewrecks<3

all the jobs have been hunted to extinction

I have spent all day looking for jobs, and it's been more fruitful than usual.. I found a whole 3! Not to mention the other 5 found during the week that have been non-responsive. I tell you, Georgia's got problems! Just Georgia, not me :D