tangle's blog

The purpose of this blog entry is to gauge other bloggers' opinions about drug use -- particularly that of alcohol as it relates to other forms of drug abuse.  Read More »

I don't know how many other bloggers out there are grad students, or who might be considering grad school. Myself, I'm looking to begin grad school in Fall 2008. Now is the time for much consideration and before long it will be time to make some serious decisions about my future.  Read More »

This is the third part of a three-part series outlining my position in the abortion debate. Please also read Part 1: Pre- and Post-Conception Birth Control and Part 2: The Egg and the Sperm.  Read More »

This is the second part of a three-part series outlining my position in the abortion debate. Please also read Part 1: Pre- and Post-Conception Birth Control and Part 3: Valuating Human Life and Liberty.  Read More »

As to the debate surrounding the morality and legality of abortion, this series of posts shall present my opinion and my argument. I must acknowledge that this argument previously appeared in my post The Last Abortion Clinic, but I came to the realization that having the entire argument on one post was overwhelming at best. Therefore I decided to remove all but the gist of the argument from that post and to re-post the argument in it's entirety in a series of posts, which, dear reader, you have - fortunately or not - just stumbled upon. That said, let's get to the issue at hand.  Read More »

As I was riding through the city streets the other day, basking in the light of the sun after many a rainy day, it happened that I heard the Beatles’ I’ll Follow The Sun on the radio. This led my mind into the labyrinthian subject of religion, and to consider why people worship this god or that goddess.  Read More »

That only one sex has the capacity to give birth has profoundly impacted the development of human culture. Since females are the sex with the capacity to give birth the result was the gradual subordination of that sex. Ancient peoples did not set out to cause such a phenomena to develop, nor was biology the sole determinant of such an outcome.  Read More »