i have to wholeheartdly agree with goodexperience.com on verizon. while my wireless service was good w/ (the company formerly known as) airtouch, down in texas, with (the company formerly known as) primeco, my service has been downright horrible. in fact, three months later, they still haven’t set up my voicemail (this is after calling them a half dozen times, and being told at least twice that tech support would be on the case).

omm:

It seems that people who deliberately deconstruct religion, then exorcise it from their lives, eventually realize that maybe they’re not so much smarter than everyone who’s ever lived after all. When they inevitably discover that faith has a purely utilitarian value as a way of mitigating the mounting existential dread that arises from simply being alive, they generally resort to creating some kind of half-assed religion substitute. This leads to spiritual philosophies that embarrass everybody, like aromatherapy and everything Jewel believes.