tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61268292011-04-21T11:25:09.982-07:00Lauren The SarcasticLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1084398183118817612004-05-12T14:42:00.000-07:002004-05-12T14:43:03.116-07:00I bought my mom a light blue "Jesus is my Homeboy" shirt for her birthday.
She didn't appreciate it.
I thought it was funny.
It happens, I guess. Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1084340002856537082004-05-11T22:27:00.000-07:002004-05-11T22:33:22.856-07:00 Oh. My. GOD. That. I Don't. Believe. In.
That's a link to where you can download the video of Nick Berg's murder. I can't say I recommend watching it.
It just doesn't seem real. Maybe I have watched too many horror movies. Maybe I've watched too may war flicks on DVD. Maybe I am too unwilling to believe it?
I don't know.
It's one thing to hear about something grotesque occurring, but to Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1083348392534143882004-04-30T11:06:00.000-07:002004-04-30T11:10:51.293-07:00Oh, good news: I am officially going to Vanderbilt next year. I mailed the check today.
AND
I will be a junior! Turns out they give a lot of hours for my AP scores, which means I only have to take six credit hours of classes this summer to be a junior. After that, I'll only be four credit-hours behind where I need to be, and I can take a heavy courseload one semester and be done with that.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1083282811665806552004-04-29T16:53:00.000-07:002004-04-29T16:57:49.530-07:00It has been decided: finals week and the two weeks before it SUCK.
And everyone who is bilingually French, like myself, should read Le Monde. Now, I am not advocating or endorsing all of their opinions, but sometimes it can be refreshing to get a foreign opinion on issues.
Today I learned the French don't hate Americans. Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081187860657577972004-04-21T08:33:00.000-07:002004-04-21T08:38:17.373-07:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part Seven: The Christian Morality of Abortion
One thing I've consistently noticed about the abortion debate is the role that religion, particularly Christianity seems to play in it. While I do not deny that there are anti-abortion atheists out there, the fact remains that the vast majority of major anti-abortion organizations (in America) are funded Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081812564562930932004-04-19T08:35:00.000-07:002004-04-19T12:51:19.280-07:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part Six: Religion and Abortion
Ah, religion. That which makes every ethical debate a million times more complicated. It's easy enough to convince someone who is morally opposed to something on a personal basis that it should be allowed for those with different morals. However, once that personal moral opposition is combined with religion, things get Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081347459353489142004-04-07T07:17:00.000-07:002004-04-07T07:21:26.216-07:00Good news!
I just found out I got into Vanderbilt! Yay!!! Now let's all hope I get enough money to actually go there...Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081193870888364462004-04-05T12:37:00.000-07:002004-04-05T12:41:34.950-07:00Happy Anniversary!
To me and my boyfriend, that is. One year today. I love you, Jakob!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081123908331940622004-04-05T11:00:00.000-07:002004-04-05T11:00:14.576-07:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part Five: The Non-Religious Morality of Abortion
In other words, explaining the personal abortion ethics of persons like myself who are not particularly religious. When I say "not particularly religious," I mean exactly that. I'm not an atheist. I don't disapprove of all religions. I don't think that religious people are morons. I'm just not a Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081041406504648302004-04-03T17:16:00.000-08:002004-04-03T17:20:28.436-08:00Hehehehe...
I am an IntellectualWhich America Hating Minority Are You?Take More Robert & Tim QuizzesWatch Robert & Tim CartoonsLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1081039290863546602004-04-03T16:41:00.000-08:002004-04-03T16:50:57.983-08:00Coming Soon
In the next few weeks or so, I'll be finishing off my abortion series with non-religious ethics, Christianity and abortion, notes on miscellaneous issues such as "partial birth abortions" and parental consent laws, and finish it off with an article about men's reproductive choices. I'll probably have a few entries with comment responses as well.
In the meanwhile, I am currently Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076892281587864542004-04-03T14:19:00.000-08:002004-04-04T12:40:20.513-07:00Hi, all. Sorry about the lack of updates. In the past month, I've had some major project due in all of my six academic classes and several minor projects due as well, so I've been too busy to update. I hate it when that happens. Ah well, at least it's over! I'm trying to manage my time better so that I can update more frequently. We'll see how that goes. Anyway, onto the entry:
The Ethics of Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1078083023905897732004-02-29T11:30:00.000-08:002004-02-29T11:33:48.403-08:00Interim Entry: 'The Cross-Burning Incident' In Claremont
I'm currently waiting on some of my anti-abortion friends to get back with me with their perspectives on the abortion issue (it's necessary for the next entry). It may be a few more days, so I'm going to write something quick and easy in the meanwhile, just to keep this blog active and let all my fans out there know that no, I am not dead.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076444105423446872004-02-15T16:45:00.000-08:002004-02-15T16:45:49.640-08:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part Three: Facts and Statistics about Abortion
I believe that the biggest causes of misunderstandings in the abortion debate are misinformation and unclear (or fake) statistics. Here, I will do my very best to find the most reliable sources of statistics, using information from both sides of the debate. I will link to all of my sources (and provide Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076353662093835812004-02-09T11:07:00.000-08:002004-02-15T16:08:07.903-08:00Ta-Da! My design is all done. I might periodically add some links, but I don't plan on making any more major changes.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
UPDATE: I am sosososososo sorry it's taken me so long to update. College has this way of snowing you under obscene amounts of work. I should have something up by later today, if not then, then sometime tomorrow. -LEA Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076287437867181532004-02-08T16:44:00.000-08:002004-02-09T12:37:02.310-08:00Oh...and if you are reading this, leave a comment! I like to hear from people.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076287366824696652004-02-08T16:41:00.000-08:002004-02-09T12:37:03.903-08:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part Two: What's in a Name?
Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Anti-Choice, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Death? What does it all mean? All of these are names various abortion-related organizations use to describe one another. In this part of the essay, I will be defining terms to be used later on in this series.
Pro-Choice- Someone who believes that abortion should be Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076283893043448492004-02-08T15:43:00.000-08:002004-02-09T12:37:12.186-08:00The Ethics of Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Part One: History
The issue of abortion is one of the most divisive in this country. Those who are in favor of its legality and those who are opposed to it are split roughly fifty-fifty across the population. On each side, there is a core group of activists who lead the movements. These activists are, by and large, more extreme than their followers. Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076281638884430812004-02-08T15:06:00.000-08:002004-02-09T12:37:58.263-08:00The Ethics on Abortion: The ULTIMATE Entry: Introduction
In my past web-publishing endeavors, I have often found myself getting tied up on the issue of abortion. To be quite honest, I consider the subject to be a non-issue, at least on a political level. But since so few people see it my way, I frequently find myself going out of my way to explain myself/convince them that I am right. On one Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076200305761199792004-02-08T11:01:00.000-08:002004-02-09T11:05:00.186-08:00I plan on devoting this blog to one of my favorite hobbies: political rhetoric/debate/logic. It helps ground me in something that resembles reality to compensate for the amount of time I spend with my nose stuck in a book. I'm currently taking a writing class whose sole purpose is the analysis of political rhetoric, so I plan to post some of my assignments here.
I thought this weekend Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076146362877706152004-01-31T13:32:00.000-08:002004-02-09T11:02:46.856-08:00 A Note on My Pictures:
The pictures featured at the top of this page are really of me. The one on the right was taken in February of 2003 at a college scholarship competition in North Carolina. The cropped-out person I'm leaning on is my mother. The one on the left was taken in my bedroom by my lover on June 2003, about ten minutes after I cut off about ten inches of my hair myself. I still Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076146180194888762004-01-30T16:20:00.000-08:002004-02-09T12:38:09.936-08:00 A Note on My Name:
I chose this name as kind of a combination of three jokes:
1. I'm making fun of the way guys fetishize Southern girls. It's really flattering but kind of scary. I'm not sure if it's the accent, the refusal to diet, or the fact that we're all capable of cooking, but there's something about being Southern that attracts boys out here like flies, especially when I take on a Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126829.post-1076145542419462612004-01-27T00:39:00.000-08:002004-02-09T11:01:50.343-08:00Greetings, all. I'd like to use this first post as an opportunity to introduce myself and tell any future readers some things about me.
My name is Lauren Elizabeth Adams. I am nineteen years old. My birthday is November 7th (feel free to send me presents: I like Guylian chocolate seashells, BCBG 'Sexy' perfume, black eyeliner, books, and widescreen DVDs of good movies). You can't really tell byLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10021757321618840716noreply@blogger.com