You can be a leader or a follower

All my life I have heard that you can either be a follower. Experience tells me though, some people just walk alone.

Osama Bin Laden

If you had asked me yesterday if we should kill or capture Bin Laden, I would have said capture. I am against capital punishment, and I do not think that killing someone is a just punishment for past crimes.
I was not consulted though, and when I woke up this morning he was dead. I must admit I feel a lot of relief at this loss of life, but I don't feel that this is in connection to Bin Laden's past deeds. I feel that this is an opportunity to undermine international terrorist movements by taking away their biggest figurehead. Someone has probably already stepped up to take his place, but they will not be a symbol in the same way he was.
I do feel some guilt for having positive feelings about the death of another person, but I feel that the world is a better place today than it was yesterday.

Note: I wrote most of this yesterday, but I am a busy guy and was not ready to post until today.

Sacrifice

My perspective is that you are a nerd for a certain subject if you are willing to sacrifice humor about that subject to maintain accuracy. So far this is the only negative thing that I have come up with about being a nerd.

Adjective-Game

This is a one-player game intended only for those who regularly interact with others who use 'ass' as a compound adjective as in, "That is one sweet-ass car." Gameplay is simple: switch the hyphen and inflection such that 'ass' is no longer part of the adjective, but rather a compound noun as in. "That is one sweet ass-car." Player wins if he/she causes himself/herself/ to laugh aloud at their own unspoken joke.

You can't improve the world with a single thought, but you can improve your world that easily.

Irony deficient

Metaphorically 'biting off more than you can chew' is especially bitter when it causes you to miss meals.

Antibiotics

This post only applies to people who believe in evolution, and if you don't believe in evolution than I have some penicillin you might like to buy.

As long as we use the current class of antibiotics to cure disease, then the only survival option for bacteria is to evolve or acquire resistance to the antibiotics that we throw at them. This is because antibiotics kill all bacteria, not just the ones that hurt us. if we can make something that specifically targets bacteria that are harming us, then we open the option for them to evolve to be harmless. Yeah, that is a nearly impossible task, but it is nice to think about.

Alternate lifestyle

This one goes out to all the men who believe in infinite alternate universes:
For every universe in which you get the girl, there are just as many where you are the girl. Scantily clad female versions of yourself should be enough to keep any man in their own reality.