Took my Core 10 midterm today.

God that was easy. Had it done in under half an hour. I still have that paper to write (six pages!), though. Shouldn't be too hard once I write it, it's just a long essay paper. Actually, it's three essays on one topic, and it's semi-pre-outlined. No research, nothing like that. It's just the six pages thing that's annoying.

Excuse me?

But playtime isn't always this carefree, because Taylor is one of the thousands of children across America who struggle with mental illnesses. Taylor has been diagnosed with a bipolar disorder, attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, hyperactivity and Asperger syndrome, a form of autism.

None of these things are classified as mental illnesses. That's because they aren't illnesses, of any sort, least of all the "mental" kind, which tends to imply insanity.

Ahem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp

Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON

Published: August 3, 2004
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So, what we've got is this. The information was old - but an attack may still be imminent. We should all be stunned at the idea that al Qaeda wants to attack these targets, because they aren't dead obvious targets to attack. We have no proof that there could be an attack in the future, and so far their alerts have consistently been wrong, but even though this is presumably outdated information we need to be cautious.

Yup. I'm scared. Really.

That makes a year and counting since I first didn't read this book!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/books/03HADD.html

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*sighs* More illogic.

But, first of all, why is it bad to be a vegetarian, but not neccessarily as bad to be takin drugs. The animals are gonna get killed soon anyway, even if you don't eat them. You're eating living things anyway you do stuff.

You're right. You'll die soon anyway, so I'll just kill you now, and improve the gene pool. That sound okay to you?

As for eating living things, well, no. By the time I eat them, they're dead things. Really and truly. At any rate, there IS a difference between things with nervous systems and things without - namely, that the things with nervous systems are more closely related to humans, and therefore eating them is that much closer to cannibalism.

_{Okay, that's a silly argument, but I'm in a mood}