It's simply not economical to have a car up here. The trains are just as convenient, and it's not that big of a city. You can walk almost anywhere. That's why I passed up this awesome ad for a 1999 Ford Escort Lx 4D. It was tough, since the price was 2500$ (NEGO AVAIL)

When I got to the Braintree station, I soon realized that there was nothing really interesting around, and they wanted an extra $1.25 for an exit fee, just to leave the station, I just decided to get on the train going in the opposite direction for free. Then I saw the face of Jesus in a puddle. Or maybe it's Satan. You be the judge. 

You don't see a lot of photos of these common things very often. 

It's just like I'm in a real city 

There's a lot of color happening in Downtown during a rainstorm at dusk. 

Guess what this is, and I'll send you a complimentary 4X5 postcard print of any of the photos on this site! Hint: It's not this 

Bikes in Central Square 

The city lies in the cold grip of my first Nor'easter. It hasn't stopped raining for almost a week.  

And these last two belong in the category, "Fun with a moving automobile at night" 

Bump in the road. 

a response to the god-fearing chain emailers

I have heard this question asked in response to the argument for evolution. This question pisses me off so completely with its blatant ignorance, that I am compelled to have an answer for it.

4. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Easy: There wasn't one day in the history of evolution where all the apes just turned into homo sapiens. And the evolution of a new species from an existing one does not necessarily mean the extinction of the old one. That's not how evolution works. As certain types of apes evolved - really just developed different genetic mutations - the ones with teh favorable genetic changes were more able to survive, and therefore, to breed. Homo Sapiens, and before him, Homo Erectus, and before him, Australopithecus (and so on) all had evolutionary advantages that took them away from the rain forests and heavily wooded areas where apes and monkeys thrive. They developed the ability to walk upright - they key to their exit from the forest. There are many species of ape and monkey varieties, including us. The other ones just didn't develop the way we did. They were "genetically content" to remain in the forest. Why do you think there are so many different species on the planet? Because God put them there? Oh yeah, I forgot. Just like the "dinosaur bones" he put there to test our faith.

An analogy: If you one day decided to move away from your family to live in a new city far away and grew up to be a completely different person than you are now, that doesn't mean that your family back home has to die out.

Question number 4 is the kind of idiotic, narrow-minded response to evolutionary theory that I so abhor. It smacks of the cretinous thought processes of those who deal only in black and white, right or wrong, good and evil. It's that kind of logic that gets a species like ours into trouble - like the kind of trouble we're in right now as we live in our decaying American Empire ruled by such dogmatic and frankly foolish thought.

I think the more appropriate question to ask would be, "If we humans are so smart, why are we still dying of starvation, raping the environment, and killing each other over fossil fuels?"

Why don't you check out some reference material for my argument.

But don't go away just yet, watch for what this goofball is doing in New Mexico on my birthday.

And be sure to look into the works of one of my all-time heroes, a man truly dedicated to a life of reason. Bertrand Russel. I think his work, especially Why I am Not a Christian is particularly applicable to the debate over evolution and the cosmic unimportance of humanity.

This is for Matt Lincoln

The Nippon Ham Fighters live on!




Plus, check out Nippon Ham's website complete with a kids' page with unintelligible flash animation.