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I have a riddle for you. You’re not allowed to look it up. There’s no trick, really.

I have 100 (American) coins that add up to make 5 dollars. But I have NO NICKELS. What are the coins?

You work on that.

Anyway, so let’s talk about currency. [READ MORE]

I wrote a whole long interesting post. It was eaten by something. I am mad.

I shall summarize.

- When I was at the sauna in Korea, the middle aged nude men would never ask me where I was from in Korean, but merely shouted country names at me. [READ MORE]

There are way too many blow-jobs in mainstream porn. Who is enjoying this?

And does anyone think that the music helps anything?

But, more seriously, there’s a lot of really messed up porn out there. People can get off to whatever they want, but the coprophagia market isn’t one I feel that needs to be catered to so much. (And oh my god is it catered to.) [READ MORE]

I’d like to use my final post from South Korea to say thank you.

I’ll start by saying thank you to Korean food, for feeding me, filling me, for having snack aisles full of odd-tasting things that convinced me to stop buying snacks altogether and allowing me to thus stay in shape. [READ MORE]

So, I posted this article about Sarah Palin earlier today. If you haven't read it, check it out, it makes some damn good points. But, the purpose of today's post isn't really to rehash Tuesday's Palin-infected discussion. Hilarious though she may be, I would rather not have to speak of her ever again. (I can dream...) [READ MORE]

Yeah, I'm back.

And I'm peeved. Perturbed. Pissed.

I have this dream that, in the next political cycle, whether it takes five months or five years, both major American parties will no longer be filled walking, talking, squawking stereotypes and self-parodies. I understand that charisma sells, and that people have been convinced that someone they can "relate" to is the best leader to vote for, but what I want, for my side and for that of those I consider the opposition, is some knock-down, drag-out, rigorously and forcefully intellectual discussions helping to form and push forward policy. And I don't just want this occurring behind the scenes. I want this out in the open for all of us to see and judge for ourselves. [READ MORE]

So the way I see it, everyone’s got the right to believe what they want. You wanna believe the things I consider absolutely insane – things like: Holocaust denial; no moon landing; that Dane Cook is AWESOME – go right ahead. Long as you’re not hurting anyone, or trying force some impressionable youth to follow your beliefs, then it’s all good in the hood. [READ MORE]

So, check this link out. Read it. Chew it over. Digest it.

Basically, I’m wondering, for each of you, where is that line? We’re talking about children here, and there are a whole host of other issues wrapped up in it. [READ MORE]

One thing I learned from spending the last few days in Beijing is that you can really make your dollars stretch there. You could be stupid and go upscale and stay in a 5-star hotel if you want, and you can find yourself ripped off by shady cabbies if you’re not being a smart traveler (lessons learned on day one...), but I was able to stay significantly under my budget for my trip, and this is without skipping anything I wanted to do. In fact I did more than I originally planned. (Going during low season also helped, which is another thing to keep in mind.) [READ MORE]

I always wonder what initiated our universe, or if multiple universes exist, the first universe. If you think of it chronologically, things can’t appear suddenly without precedent, and hence nothing logical can explain the origin of origin. Theories are therefore pure speculation and there is little mention of a pre-big bang period. In trying to cook something up, I’ve conjectured that before the appearance of the infinitely massive particle that started everything, time did not exist; hence, everything was connected, allowing the accumulation of the decayed mass of another universe existing on its own timeline. However, my argument is still plagued by the chicken/egg dilemma, for it just assumes the (first) universe existed. In fact, there are endless iterations of this problem when you try to go from nothingness to existence; even if you presuppose the existence of a self-emanating god you must account for the creation of its will, and the creation of the creation of its will, and so on. [READ MORE]