Ahh, love, music, politics, science... I guess that's what life reduces down to, perhaps... (grin)

The president of South Korea is holding a referendum on his own replacement, indicating that if the voters tell him to, he's out. Interesting tactic -- if he wins, he'll come out the stronger, and has a chance to change his power base and goals (depending on how it works out). If he fails, he'll look really silly.. but that's always part of politics. A thought -- how does the South Korean situation compare to the Taiwanese one?

Some studies on the psychology of rejection. In particular, the need for intent to be inferred is fascinating, and ties into evolutionary biology, an interesting field. On a similar note, had still another online conversation with a theist who felt the need to try out the latest lines he heard about how to argue with atheists on me. After a bit, he stormed off. Sorry dude -- your canned lines arn't impressive.

I recently found another hilariously bizarre thing online... *drumroll* How about .... The Red Army Choir sings "Down Under" Understand that I had to go through some hoops to get this out of the irritating format it was in and make it available for you. If you can't play ogg files, too bad :) Upgrade your sound program or something.

I lost my credit card, so I cancelled it and sent for a new one. Oh well, at least, for now, I have a moderate amount of money in the bank, so my debit card will work.

Finally, as the topic, and last night's funky journal entry provides context to, I've decided to light a symbolic bridge on fire, so I won't be burned trying to cross it later. There's still a chance that I might lose, and a much slimmer chance that I might win, but more important is that I get all of myself on the same page. I'm sure, reader, that you've occasionally had some pretty strong opinions on something that really shove you around in multiple directions. There's only so much turbulence that one can take.. so sometimes it really can help, even if it appears foolish from the outside, to box oneself into one choice. It's possible to undo any decision, should one prove to have been rash or irrational, but a temporary finality, as it were, can make life easier. :)

I was thinking about writing my counterargument to this out, but I have too many other things to do (homework, studying, gah!).