I have Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, and Metallica
Metallica has special meaning because of its recurring themes of oppression, injustice, but yet, resistance.
Assorted albums: favorites are Presto, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Chronicles, 21-12, Grace Under Pressure
RUSH has special meaning because of its recurring themes of humanity, human rights, and indignity, usually philosophically and humanistically phrased.
Vivid
Hack, assorted singles
Are You Experienced?
Violator
State of Euphoria
This album has special meaning for me because the songs "Antisocial", "Make Me Laugh", "Schism", "Be All End All", and "Who Cares Wins" all suggest liberal, progressive themes
Ritual de lo Habitual, Nothing's Shocking
Best of Jethro Tull-MU
Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion II
Invisible Touch
Dirty Filthy Rotten Stinking Rich, Cherry Pie
Van Halen II, OU812
Hysteria
Had Nevermind at one time until tape was "eaten"
Mastedon LOFCAUDIO, Petra Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out and Petra Praise II, Lanny Cordola Acoustic Saint, Michael W. Smith, various single songs by author
Cold Lake
Generally, my ambitions follow Maslow's hierarchy of needs, especially security and needs to know things and express myself.
Why: It would facilitate art and photo digitalization, and could transform my machine into a fax machine and a photocopier.
Why: It would provide better protection of contents of hard drive.
Why: I like to access knowledge accessible only via cable television.
Why: I adore feline companionship. One does not own a cat. One makes friends with one. (I have one but I want to have one indoors with blessing from apartment management.)
Why: I like music, especially pre-recorded favorites, and to record radio songs for personal use.
Why: Computers useful for communication, learning, expression, and building new and existing relationships, also a promising career field.
Why: Useful for receiving communication and learning, especially when I should be in bed or I am away doing my job or chores.
Why: It allows unfettered freedom of transportation, which facilitate relationships.
At least read about real world if not watch it on TV.
Learn more about real world and possibilities of science and space.
Although I am not independent of my mother, we are interdependent, and share a car, furniture, and appliances.
for further information please refer to the schools list on my employment search web page. Maybe we went there together.
Born premature (25 weeks) Washington, DC, after three months at Children's Hospital, returned home to Kensington, MD
Family, increased by one sibling, relocated to Rockville, MD, Dundee Rd., adjacent to southbound lane I-270 exit 6B
Family relocated to Pinefield subdivision in Waldorf, MD, November 30
Father retires from Social Security Administration Office of Research, Statistics, and International Policy (origin of my sociology?) January 22
We relocate to our summer cabin, Hedgesville, WV, January 29,
Kitten adopts us, mid-May.
Stricken with chicken pox (at age 18!) for two weeks in January
I convert to Christianity (May 24) and am baptized (July 18).
First Food Stamps the summer after getting my Master's in sociology, May-August
Father dies of bone cancer, September 26, buried October 12
Survive testicular cancer with surgery and radiation, January-June
First state rehabilitation assistance
First Medicaid, October
March-October: I relocate to Greenbelt, MD and work for the Census Bureau in Suitland, MD
January-June: I complete six months of computer programming studies in Baltimore
August 10: start internship in Arlington, VA
October 4: promoted to analyst.
November 18: Rekindling serious friendship with a young woman in Lanham, MD.
November 20: I moved to Greenbelt, MD
November 27: Mom joined me in Greenbelt.
December 26: Our apartment finally unpacked
Diagnosed with sleep apnea
Passed six month review, April
I am not a homosexual. However, I know how much love matters, having loved a woman back in the summer of 1997, and increasingly loving another now.
Clearly, God allows me to have a marriage, and family, with a woman, especially if she is a Christian, provided that our marriage is for life.
I would be hurt if I knew I could never have this. I presume that gay people are people too, just gay instead of straight. If I was a gay person, God would never permit such an marriage, and so far no U.S. state would allow it either. Score one for our Judeo-Christian legal- political bias.
How can I forbid from someone else what I want with a Christian woman?
However, I interpret the Bible as clearly condemning certain same-sex sexual relations. This is one of those things with which I disagree with God.
But which of us is bigger and stronger? God! So I guess His will should prevail over mine.
Nevertheless, the United States of America is a free country for all, whether Christians or not. I would like to see same-sex marriage on equal terms as existing marriage laws. (I won't be changing my plans.)
I also interpret the Bible as labelling abortion as murder, although killing in self-defense, for the life of the mother, is always justified.
But it is not to say that I am an insensitive man about it.
I studied my sociology. This is not to defend abortion but to make it understood as best as I can understand.
A woman is considered to be responsible for the sex she participates in, willingly or not. Also consider that the man is bigger than she and sometimes doesn't take no for an answer. Nevertheless, our society seems to place sex properly within marriage or a stable love relationship with the presence of a man. If he leaves or is never there, she is negatively labelled by society. After all, women look pregnant, but men never look like they've had sex.
Also a woman will sacrifice during her pregnancy, like a nine-month sentence. She may give up school. At minimum she will be tenmporarily miserable and possibly alone, hiding her secret from oppression. She may be forced to give up employment for physical, even medical, reasons. Men and women are increasingly legally equal in the work world, but there is no law to make men pregnant, too. The only equalizer a woman has is abortion, and if pregnancy is the problem, abortion is the 100%-effective solution, whether or not abortion damages the woman's reproductive system or health or life.
Free contraception would render most abortions obsolete, sparing much emotional and physical damage.
We could score a triumphant victory over safe and legal abortion with the stroke of a pen, but we would just drive abortion underground and unsafe. We can't get rid of drugs and guns and prostitutes, so how can we stop abortion? (We had so much trouble trying Dr. Jack Kervorkian, and many doctors, or wanna bes, would not stop abortions under new laws.) I think we can and should minimize abortions with contraception and education, but abortion, either safe and legal, or neither, is here to stay.
The law needs to equalize the genders in the workplace. There is no difference between men and women except one chromosome.
The law can do much with DNA testing and income deductions to make progress with the child support question.
I am not sure if immigrants compete with existing U.S. citizens for jobs. My sociology training suggests that immigrants mostly take jobs existing citizens do not want.
I would suggest, however, that immigration be reduced, perhaps except for political or religious refugees, unless jobs in the United States can be created for them without depriving existing native-born and naturalized citizens of employment.
This complements my thoughts on welfare reform, which suggest that citizens should be required to work but then should be guaranteed an adequate living. We do not want citizens on welfare because their jobs are occupied by current non-citizens.
Citizenship should be a contract between individual and society, to work at one's best ability at one's maximum income, and to be compensated if one cannot meet the cost of living.
I am not comfortable with suggestions that people on welfare are simply undereducated. I did not take West Virginia food stamps, Medicaid, and West Virginia and Maryland rehabilitation aid and Federal student loan unemployment deferments until I had a Master's degree! Whether or not my disability has anything to do with my need for such aid is of great interest to me, but having had a Master's for three years, I have only recently had hope that things will improve.
I do know from my sociology that conditions such as race, gender, and disability status are sufficient to inhibit one's employment and/or income considering equal levels of education and/or experience! People also like to pay people what and charge what rent from them they can get away with. It is not a fair situation for most Americans.
So are we going to take a chance on millions freezing, starving, or being sick or injured to death, and their innocent existing children (it is a fair question to ask whether or not people on aid should have more children for us to support).
We need to keep welfare intact, but have oversight to weed out those who do not want to play ball with government.
I used to believe that guns should be confiscated and removed, like the relative absence of guns in Great Britain, until I read the research.
We should allow arms to the citizens if they desire to be armed. Criminals don't obey the laws and don't obey gun laws either. Why don't we require ex-convicts to submit to random searches for weapons as a condition of release?
We need to make things easier for law-abiding citizens but harder for persons with criminal records involving violence, felonies, and/or guns.
I have heard that drugs should be de-criminalized. I have heard that this would kill the profit power of drug kingpins. I believe that, but what would that do to drug users and their unborn children?
People seem to want drugs, I think, for two reasons. People want to use drugs to ease their emotional or other suffering. What does this suffering have to do with opportunities or the lac of them? Second, people want to sell drugs because that is a better opportunity than many of the wages they are allowed to have.
I am not sure what to do here. We could kill the profit power of drug smugglers and lords, but at what price to average people's bodies and minds?
Snoring, frequent waking while sleep, frequent long-term spells of low-level sleep, may easily reach REM sleep, especially on the subway or bus and sometimes at work, counteracted by caffeine, possible lower productivity, may require more than eight hours' quantity a sleep per night to adequately compensate for less quality of sleep.
Treatment: Short term: Continuous air pressure mask on order. Long term: Continued weight loss down to medically-recommended 176 pounds via diet, water, and exercise.
Manifestations: difficulty concentrating, paying attention, remembering, especially under stress or excitement, possibly difficulty following directions and coordinating impulse control, especially under strong emotions, noted as recently as 1998. May be responding to Luvox.
Manifestations: Poor recognition of customs, etiquette, body language, very subtle social situations. No medicine available, but seem to be learning small-scale social norms, especially in response to hard knocks.
Manifestations: Apathy, lack of energy, excessive sleep, sadness, pessimism, suicidal wishes. Except for occasional less enthusiasm, seems to favorably respond to Luvox.
Manifestations: Negative: occasional worry of "not putting soap somewhere on me in the shower", worry of leaving stove on by accident, perfectionism, seems to respond to Luvox. Positive: can't pull away from work frequently, frequently ignore breaks, food, water, etc., attention to rules and detail.
Manifestations: hard to sleep, relax.
Generally, the physically-intensive chores my mother cannot do. This may include some sharing of what she can do: dusting, folding clean laundry, budgeting, coupon clipping, washing dishes (because the dishwasher is broken).
Copyright 1999, 2000 Christopher Marsh. Last updated: September 18, 2000.