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As a professional scientist who likes to chat at parties, my typical cocktail-party conversation goes something like this: Me: "Hi X. Nice to meet you." X: "Likewise. So what do you do?" Me: "I'm a nuclear physicist." X: "..." Me: "Seriously." X: "Wow. I've never met a nuclear physicist before. What do you do?" Me: "I smash atoms" X: "Wow. But what's it for? Does it have any relevance to the real world?" Relevance - among this group of Quantum Diarists, I'm sure we all want it. In some sense, most of us live with the guilt of feeling passionate about a field of study that doesn't directly affect the daily life of the average person. Sure "we" invented the web (although the truth is that it was invented for us by a real software engineer). And obviously nuclear physics had it's day in the sun, as it were, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War, when "we" (actually it was the military) released the specter of nuclear weapons and power on the unsuspecting world. That's relevance all right, but that was a time when it was a stark choice between playing with fire and risking an Axis victory. The modern world is certainly not lacking for weapons technologies. Nor do the pressing issues of the day (e.g. national security, disease, climate change) appear to have an obvious solution which will rely on a new insight about a new fundamental force lead loan mortgage sales you typically need only a single old one to understand most of biology and chemistry).

Jerry Brown, who's running for California Attorney General, is probably the only Democrat I'll be voting for on Tuesday. A concerned Christian man had some words for Californians who are planning to vote for the zen fascist in the glorious and enlightening letter section of the OC Reg : One of the worst personal characteristics is hypocrisy. Enter Jerry Brown, who fights for the right to choose and at the same time declares that he is a Roman Catholic, whose church, along with our Baptist brothers and sisters, especially, and other Christian faiths, decries such a choice. That makes him a hypocrite. Please vote your conscience, Christians, and don't vote for this man . He hasn't changed his image since he was our governor, when he was labeled correctly as Gov. Moonbeam. Just ask all those Catholics engaging in pre-marital sex (a mortal sin) and practicing birth control (could be mortal but is probably venial) how many church teachings they violate every week. Hell must have a lot of room for these future guests. See, I would consider hypocrisy taking marching orders from a homophobic evangelical pastor who queen size bedding pends time away from his family banging male prostitutes . Or how about blindly supporting the war on IraqiIranSyraAbsurdistan while ignoring your church's teachings on "just war"? Oh yeah, my bad, Jesus always loved a good ass kicking and he was totally cool with his apostles molesting little children.