The following is a question given at a University of Arizona chemistry mid-term exam and an actual answer turned in by a student.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct … leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’

THIS STUDENT DESERVEDLY RECEIVED AN A+.

It was difficult to find a Covid test site in Ixtapa, Mexico, so I paid to have a man come to the house. The result was immediate but the paperwork took all day to complete and involved many phone calls and emails with the man after he left. My test was negative but I wondered what would happen if my test was positive. Would Alaska refuse to let me board? Would I be taken to a secret location? Or would I be returned to my friend’s house? Would I be reimbursed for the ticket or would I be forced to pay for a one-way ticket back to the US after I what, tested negative? By whom? In what language? Would I be hospitalized? Where? If I died, then what?

I had great-grandparents and grandparents who lived in rural southwest Virginia, Grayson County, until they died when I was in my 20s and 30s. They would never have allowed something like fracking to occur on their land. Sometimes you have to fight for your community. They voted democratic and the small towns around them thrived. Southwest Virginia is now a sea of red and the area has succumbed to vast poverty. The current great-grandparents and grandparents who live there have been convinced to vote against their own self-interests. Their children and grandchildren have all moved away.

As a longtime California resident, who lived through the last recall,
this Newsom recall effort is nothing but the state Republican party
attempting to circumvent the general election in a year and a half in
Nov 2022 when Newsom is up for reelection and turnout will be
much higher than it will be for a recall election in Nov 2021. Why?
Because the Republicans see it as the only way they have a chance
to win statewide office. Instead of putting up a candidate in 2022
with ideas that might garner voters’ support, they will cost the
taxpayers 100 million+ and spend millions on negative ads at a
time when we are coming out of a pandemic and need everyone’s
efforts to rebuild the economy. Sound familiar?

DHC
Hillcrest, CA |

April 24, 2021

This is my response in the Times to Maureen Dowd’s latest column.
She wasn’t a fan of Nomadland and neither was a friend of hers she
quoted in the column so I had to write an opposing view for the
now Oscar winning film.

(As a Hollywood writer friend of mine said after she watched
“Nomadland”: “That was not entertainment. That was Frances
McDormand having explosive diarrhea in a plastic bucket on a van.”)

You need new friends, Ms Dowd! “Nomadland” portrayed a segment
of American life many of us drive by on highways and back roads, in
parking lots and on our streets, that we never get to know.
McDormand, along with the real nomads, takes us on a journey
through a culture we otherwise would never get a chance to even
begin to understand. To me, that is art, every bit as much as
“Nashville.”

Tonight when I watched the Oscar winning picture ARGO again,
it reminded me of the recent January 6, 2021 Insurrection at the
US Capitol.

In 1979, Iranian Revolution supporters invaded the US Embassy in
Tehran and took Americans hostage. It was bloody. People died.

The Iranian insurrection mirrors the January 6 invasion of the US
Capitol by Trump supporters whose goal was to overthrow the free
and fair election of Joe Biden because Trump revolutionized his
supporters into believing the election was stolen, but stolen only in
the states Trump lost, not the states he won. It was bloody. People
died.

(to be continued)

Allen v. Farrow

I made it halfway through the first episode of Allen v. Farrow before
I had to stop.

I hate, yes hate, all of them. Whatever the rest of this HBO
Documentary has to offer, I want no part of it.

Mia Farrow is a manipulator.
Woody Allen is a manipulator.

All the kids, who can keep up?

Then Dylan comes along. Then Ronan (Satchel). I’ve never witnessed
two more pathetic manipulators.

When everyone is manipulating throughout their lives and
in front of the constant cameras, the constant filming by Mia, the
quick manipulative edits, then who is living a life, a real life?

My advice:

1. Get a fucking life.
2. Shut your mouths for 1440 minutes, if possible, and stop the
constant filming and performing.
3. If any of you care about healing whatever happened, do what I
did and GET SOME HELP.
4. When your choice of house, not home, becomes a manipulation,
then where is home?

Dumb v. Stupid v. Mad

a HUMILIATING

Documentary.

Manipulator, Bobblehead and Sycophant

McConnell is a spineless manipulator with no concern for the
country he helped Trump destroy for 4 years. Trump is a
vainglorious bobblehead who does not care about the country
that allowed him to inherit then steal a fortune. Graham is a
sycophant who will lick anyone’s boots in order to walk behind them
in their muddy prints to his next “I am important” television
interview. I could go on but you smell the path ahead. I do not recall,
once, during the past 4 years, when any of them made a comment or
speech about helping anyone in the country or helping the country
as a whole. Their MO is to whine and moan, obfuscate and oppose,
and hang onto power. The spin cycle of their lies and schemes never
ends.

So, Dems better take full advantage of the next 2 years. There is
nothing to lose and everything to gain. Our country, our lives and
our way of life, all hang in the balance.

If we do not reign in
the flaccid acceptance
of the
Insurrection
at our
Capitol,
instigated by
Donald Trump
and followed by those
who believed in him
who believed what
he told them
to do;
if we do not reign in
the Republicans
in Congress
who pretend
they were not
scared shitless
on January 6;
if we do not
hold accountable
Republican office holders
from around the country
who conspired
and gave
power winks
on
January 6,
then we deserve
all the hell
that will
rain down
on our country.

Less
than
12 hours
from this breath
I am
drawing

Biden
Harris

will
replace ~ ~

We
will
have

a
Pearl

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