Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in The Sword of Courteous Debate's LiveJournal:

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Friday, July 17th, 2009
10:43 am	Two pictures worth seeing. Fuck Prop 8. And I love the way this one fucks with one of the most obnoxious memes ever from the Internet. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 10th, 2009
10:43 pm	How to eliminate hunger. One city in Brazil shows the way. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
6:00 pm	Do I have any friends in Denver, CO? Or really good friends of really good friends, that I could ask favors of? Just checking resources at the moment. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
7:00 pm	People are fucking awesome. Quiet heroism reliably brings tears to my eyes. Happy 4th of July, and respect to our brave men and women in uniform. You people are some of the best human beings this country has. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
11:01 pm	Unrelated links. A really moving eulogy for Michael Jackson Sex with Ducks (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
2:45 pm	Links and thinks... Racism in Transformers. Won't they ever fucking learn? Key sentence: ""I purely did it for kids," the director said. "Young kids love these robots, because it makes it more accessible to them."" Gaaah. Musings on dehumanization, war, and "the enemy". Great sentence: "So let us say it plainly. The abstract men of power who have now set up as critics of Barack Obama for his want of aggression, the new special friends of "the real Iran"--their warmth, their zeal, their passion all depend on the ability or deformation that allows them to turn a chosen enemy into an inhuman blank." (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
6:06 pm	Too much bad news. Awful things are happening in the lives of my friends, and I am powerless to affect them. I hate this. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
1:09 pm	Sims as social action. Read this. Make sure you ready beyond the first page--it just keeps getting better. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
1:59 pm	Really grokking chaotic systems. What a difference a meter makes... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
4:10 pm	The APA is at it again. Only straight men get to be transvestites, and other absurdities. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
11:01 am	I adore Jon Stewart. Supreme Court justices must be unempathic. (Comment on this)
10:46 am	WE ARE WINNING. Maine joins the states that support gay marriage. We are so damned close to a "full faith and credit" challenge to the falsely named "Defense of Marriage Act". So damned close. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
12:48 pm	Humans are also awesome. New laser fusion ignition facility in pictures. Camera with a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. Google could have detected swine flu early. (Comment on this)
12:42 pm	In Lego Veritas. An artist challenges our media conception of torture scenes as "too graphic to print". Sorry, but if they're too graphic to print, they're too graphic to do. It's like "too big to fail"--it indicates a systemic flaw far deeper and more profound than the excuse for not resolving it could ever encompass. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
7:47 pm	Quote of the...well, week, at least. "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." (from here) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
9:46 am	ZOMG EPIDEMIC PANDEMIC PLAGUE DEATH ZOMG NOES!!!1!111!one!!! SWIIIIIIIIIINE FLOOOOOOOOO (3 Comments |Comment on this)
9:40 am	Some more perspectives on torture. Obama on torture. In somewhat more disturbing news, it's just awful when other people do it. I am so bewildered by the American schizophrenia on torture. A majority of Americans thinks that it might sometimes be justified to torture terrorism suspects, but we're just horrified when some other country does those awful torture things. I don't understand it. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 1st, 2009
3:24 pm	Why aren't cops prosecuting rape aggressively? Many rape kits go untested for years, some until after the statute of limitations has expired. And when New York City started testing every rape kit, their rate of arrests for reported rapes went from 40% to 70%. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:06 pm	Excellent (short) article on hate crimes legislation... with a great quote from Matthew Shepard's mother. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
11:17 am	I couldn't believe it, but it's true... Conservatives really don't get that Colbert is joking. (2 Comments |Comment on this)