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Updates per CNN: Turns out the gunner had an AK-47 Campus police are still looking for a second suspect and possible explosives One witness who has spoken said that he saw shots fired into the ground

No other injuries, per CNN. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/suspected-university-of-texas-austin-gunman-dead/?hpt=T2 Edit: updated full story http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/28/texas.university.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2

I'm not a member, and there's a reason why. Anyone want to sum it up if they can see it?

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi was a crazy MF-er, but he hit the nail on the head once in a while.

Gone the sun

Read a pretty in-depth report on Stuxnet on BBC's site yesterday or the day before. It's a really interesting worm.

It's in the original post: the girl before the redhead cheated.

Looks (and sounds) amazing.

I know CNN has been all over this guy. Every morning at breakfast, I look up and he's plastered up on the TV screen.

One of my professors liked to say that Guiliani cleaned up NYC and "sent the damn hobos to where they belong: Jersey." He's from Brooklyn

It's hard to give a synopsis of this one, it's a bunch of stuff about the Founders. You don't need a subscription, you just need to register with their website. I haven't paid for an issue of The New York Times in my life, and I can still read all the articles online.

It's true, the ones we usually call "freaks" don't have much to do with Jesus. Sad, really. They wouldn't be so freakish if they did.

I stopped reading there.

Back in the day, it was 1600. Now it's 2400, that's how Sage beat everyone

Do you have something to tell us, Booster?

Pardon my ignorance, but he said that?!

My roommate just refers to her as "a singing pair of breasts."

I don't doubt it. Don'tcha just love it? Not sure if I'd say that "most people" end up this way. A large amount, certainly, but I know many believers that have had doubts and have re-examined their faith at one time or another.

Believe it or not (see what I did there? ) our human minds seemingly demand explanations for everything (especially our origins). Some people do that by throwing in a creator, who hit the first domino, so to speak. People like Chef, you, and I squelch this demand, and are satisfied with an "I don't know" when it comes to the beginning of the universe. However, when people make the leap of faith (thanks, Kierkegaard), I do not believe that they are "weak" or "stupid." To me, they are simply fulfilling another demand (although it may be comparatively minor) made by their brain. Perhaps this fulfilling of the demand is one of the reasons why religious people tend to be happier than non-religious people.

True as that may be, the people celebrating this as some sort of real political gesture are just

Hope all goes well, Mead.

Why don't people realize that these guys are comedians? I don't get it.

Let me reiterate something:

Not defending the guy, or his claims. Careful with the "12% are not believers" bit. Any rational person will tell you that there is "no way to know" and that they're "not sure." I'm still not sure what to make of the "higher power" types. Obviously that includes deism, but I suppose it could contain all sorts of people.