Just when I thought philosophy could make some sense of our lives, this guy shows up and jumbles everything up into one big ball of yarn. His argument starts off well. Can science define moral and ethical values through facts? But, unfortunately, his argument is flawed, being that he has taken something we all have out of the equation: Common sense. It doesn't take science to figure out what you're doing is right or wrong. Everybody has a Gemini Cricket dancing around in their heads evaluating the moral and ethical weight of every given situation. You could think of it as a moral equilibrium. His comparison to the Dali Lama and Ted Bundy is laughable. Ted Bundy was not deficit of moral knowledge. He just really enjoyed killing people. Sometimes, knowledge doesn't stop us from doing what's in our heart. Nice try, Mr. Wizard, but science is not the answer to all our problems after all.

Depression is kind of comforting sometimes. I believe it was Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins who coined the phrase "I'm in love with my sadness" in their mosh-pit ballad "Zero".

Well, I don't listen to the Pumpkins anymore, and I'm pretty sure I'm not in love, but I think there's some truth to Billy's sentiment. People associate depression with gray clouds and rainy weather and feelings of isolation. Loneliness stings, and it lingers like a hangnail or a toothache. However, it's not abject pain that we're experiencing. We are empathizing with ourselves, or "feeling sorry for ourselves" even though that's a tilted way of looking at it.

We need to know that our lives are important, even if they aren't. We look to others to "validate our feelings" and thus our existence. In essence, I have come to believe that feelings of isolation begin with the startling realization that in the broad scope of the universe, spread out across the vast expanse of time, we are in fact very small and, yes, somewhat insignificant.

Who am I? What is my purpose in the world? In my opinion, these kind of questions smooth the surface. it is the question that defines us. Not the answer. If there was an answer, I believe that our lives would be completely drained of color and meaning. So, the next time you're feeling sad, embrace that feeling, for it's part of being human.

So, here I am trying to come up with an acceptable looking template with a descent looking 3 column layout. Shouldn't be too hard, right? Wrong. For the last four hours I have been toiling, copying and pasting thousands of lines of code into my HTML editor and pulling my hair out. This should be easy - but it isn't - for the same reasons Adobe illustrator isn't easy. Hell, if they put out a comprehensive, user friendly interface everything would fall apart! Web based programmers and designers would be out of work! And that's exactly why the technical trade is a load of shit. The only reason this information is technical is to give you and I a headache. So they can sit on their asses and plug out superfluous bars of code in order to make a living instead of actually getting a job at something a monkey could do. Have fun pulling your hair out.