Ask me about anything you want
Recent Responses
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New Orleans and Minneapolis are two I've never been to, but would like to see
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I use Blogger, but have been contemplating a change because of options that other blogging services offer. I don't have a huge problem with Blogger, I just know that it's rather limited. Wordpress is the blogging site of choice for many people I know. It has a lot more options that Blogger either neglects or requires an app. Tumblr is good if you're not that much of a blogger, and just want to post stuff with no particular theme. I'd say to try them all out and go with the one you like best!
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I'd love to have a few dogs (labs, and springer spaniels), but being a grad student I can't care for them on my schedule :(
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Seafood. Never have been a fan of eating stuff that swims. I don't know why, but it could have to do with the smell and taste of gefilte fish.
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I think the Manatee would hurt a lot more, so I'm going with the Bea Arthur posthumous orgasm. Granted, you're probably right that I would be crying in a shower afterwards, but I think I'd keep my skin
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Yes eema I'm wearing my sweater, but I'm schpritzing like a pig
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Never. While my predecessors would fancy this, I do not. As Holy Roman Emperor I take hard stands on this issue. I feel that both the Catholic Church and Silvio Berlusconi both can learn from my leadership. This is how I keep my nose out of the media too.
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There was one time I was walking around in Walmart with Rachel Tobias, and she was trying to explain something political to me. I disagreed and started explaining why it was wrong. Rachel said something along the lines of "I'm going to need a second opinion". As she said that, this old woman passed by and said "I agree with him". I'm sure there's weirder stories I've encountered, but I can't remember them.
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Monkeys are cool, and provide an awesome possibility of comic relief. It's great that monkeys are still around.
The real answer though is that monkeys and humans have a common ancestor, and our lineages split at some point in the past. This question is a lot like "If many Americans and Australians are descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans around?" -
This is a very good question. I'd be perfectly okay with being friends with Glenn Beck's daughters. I do have conservative friends, believe it or not. I think I'd hold back a little bit. I just wonder if I had slight criticism whether their father would become overbearing about it. Glenn Beck does strike me as an overbearing father, but I could be wrong about that.
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With one week left in the season, it really is a tough call. With the playoff draw unsolidified it makes it difficult to answer this. However, here's a few things I'll say while I pick.
-I picked Washington to beat Chicago pre-season.
-Neither Pittsburgh nor Detroit will not make it to the finals. Both teams look beatable.
-In the east I think it's probably New Jersey or Washington. It's very wide open, but those two teams might be the best.
-In the West, it'll either be Chicago or Phoenix.
-I'm sticking with my pre-season pick. Washington in 7 over Chicago. -
I am an avid Blue Jackets fan...I would also say I also like pretty much any other team that isn't Detroit or Pittsburgh.
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Don't get me wrong I like Blue. The Blue Jackets are blue, and they are awesome. My favorite color just isn't blue. I like odd colors. Blue is a nice color, but it gets very hackneyed.
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I would say a light Orange. To clarify, anything that isn't an "obnoxious orange" (like Flyers colors). Any reason? Not really, I just like colors that are not standard ones.
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I definitely wasn't. I wish I had a beer in hand last night, but I was working at McCutcheon. I seem to have a lot of doppelgangers though.
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I've never really have said this completely from start to end, so bear with me. I think it's worth telling.
My family was always Jewish in a secular manner. We never were "crazy" with religion. I did, however, go to Jewish day school until 8th grade. We celebrated the holidays, and occasionally went to Synagouge on Shabbat. When we moved to Cincinnati, I went to a private school that was not parochial. I had a hard time meeting friends, and I found a Jewish youth group where I made a lot of friends. When I was about 15 or so was when I started to kind of question things with the Jewish faith itself. Being in the Jewish tradition this was a normal thing that happens. They claim it's ok to question things and it isn't a big deal. I also became a communications VP in a Jewish youth organization.
When I was about 17 I was starting to really lose faith in the religion. I remember on the car ride from Cincinnati to Purdue with my Dad, we had a very long discussion about religion, where I kind of asked him why he believed. He said that being a doctor there are things that happen that he can't explain, and there must be a God or something. The first time I was upset was when same-sex marriage was made into an issue in the 2004 election. Basing it on the grounds of God and dogma was really bothersome to me. At a Jewish youth group convention I was told how John Kerry (who I was favorable to) was pro-Palestinian. I couldn't buy into it, because I didn't think Bush was overly helpful in the Middle East. It also seemed like people were basing their vote for Bush on the fact that he was "stronger on the Middle East". The final At my last convention, we were in a prayer service and as we were getting up to say a prayer over the Torah, "How is this not a cult?"
When I left for Purdue, I was thinking that I didn't really want to be overly Jewish anymore. I did go to Hillel a few times originally, just to give it one last chance. I went, and I really didn't feel comfortable about being there. I felt like all the people there were in the Jewish fraternity or sorority, and just used the Hillel as a recruiting tool. I didn't like this, and I was done with Judaism. For awhile, I was identifying myself as "Jewish, but I don't care" or not talking about it. My sophmore year, I had an RA who was very into CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ). He was widely regarded as a jerk, but he really pushed his religion hard. All he would advertise in the floor newsletter was the CRU events he was going to, and I took offense to it. I had a hard time dealing with his pushing Jesus, and we butted heads a lot.
In that first semester of that year, I changed my major and got into a little trouble with money. I was pretty depressed. I realized that I didn't want to go to Hillel, and that I really didn't like other religion because of my RA. So that second semester right around the end of February 2007, I realized I didn't like religion enough that I didn't want to ever go back to it. I came out to my roommate (who is still a great friend) as an atheist. The friends I had on that floor were so supportive of me and my decision. My RA on the other hand, was not overly happy. I kind of became the "trouble resident", but he would never write me up.
I drunk dialed my super religious cousin on Purim, which was soon after my coming out to my roommate. I ended up coming out as an atheist to him. He called me back the next day, and confronted me on it. This was a bad idea. Firstly, he was considered somewhat of a hero in the Jewish Community because he had moved to Israel at one point. I realized that he also had a big mouth, and that my secret was now out in the Jewish Community. I figured I had some PR to do. I then called a few other people close to me from back in High School and told them, including a now ex-gf. A few were supportive, others I have not talked to since. I came out to my mother over the phone about a week after this. She was supportive, and I was really scared to tell my Dad, who grew up with it. I later told him, and he still thinks it's a phase. I told them not to tell anyone in the Jewish Community, and they've been fairly good about it.
I wasn't fully comfortable with the thought that I was an atheist at first, but I had realized after reading a bit about other religions, that I was more an atheist. I met Jen, and the rest of the Purdue Non-Theists at a Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day Rally in Fall 2008, and they've been some of my closest friends since. As I've gotten more involved, I've realized that this is the right place for me. I think going back to a religion fully would be difficult and too conflicting for me. I'm much happier not believing in supernatural things. It really took a big stress off my shoulders to get out of it. -
It needs is an ice rink or a hockey team that I can go watch within a reasonable distance.
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This is obvious, ninjas. I see this as a team effort too. The Ninjas would sink the pirates' boat while at sea, and the pirates would think they hit a stray rock. Really what will have happened is a ninja would have secretly killed one of the pirates on the poopdeck and thrown them through the hull of the ship. The ninjas would then sail away on the emergency rowboats from the ship.
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He can just ignore them. The Dems will likely lose a bunch of seats, but it's only the midterms. Richard Hofstrader in his research on paranoid politics, has found that populist movements like the Tea Parties, go away once they get too big. The groups tend to alienate their members or leaders and a lot of in-fighting ensues. Some would argue this is already occurring in the Tea Party Movement, with groups wanting to move away from association with the movement. Others will say it's yet to happen, since they have no sustainable power yet. Bottom line is once they have power, they'll crumble.
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Michael Brownstein’s Bio
Cincinnati, OH
I am a pop culture nerd and I love hockey and politics.
