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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Add + Value

“Add + Value” courtesy of Tim Boucher.

Spook Country

…how these heresies would get started, often spontaneously generating around some medieval equivalent of your more outspoken homeless mumbler. Organized religion, he saw, back in the day, had been purely a signal-to-noise proposition, at once the medium and he message, a one-channel universe. For Europe, that channel was Christian, and broadcasting from Rome, but nothing [...]

The Healthy Dead

Desire for goodness, Mister Reese, leads to earnestness. Earnestness in turn leads to sanctimonious self-righteousness, which breeds intolerance, upon which harsh judgement quickly follows, yielding dire punishment, inflicting general terror and paranoia, eventually culminating in revolt, leading to chaos, then dissolution, and thus, the end of civilisation. or Good living and health, as you say, [...]

To my jaw bebawlthered boy on the morn ‘ter his displeasure

Though you haven’t many tomorrows yet –futuretalk leaves you cold– pain marooned unceasing in your jaw does it seem to last forever? yet, out of this little pain will grow some mighty chomps! O my toothless son! Your tongue will soon have many friends grin festooned with many tooths joys of crunch and clack and [...]

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (5)

I want to ask, you ever wonder why the dominant culture says certain stuff? I mean, really hammers on you that some stuff is absolutely, deadly impossible? For instance, what science calls the “Grandfather Paradox”? How it works out that you should never, ever even consider time travel, because you might go back in time [...]

You know who you are…

…but we don’t know who *you* are! To the couple who gave up their seats on the plane–after 8 hours waiting in the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, and who the airline clerk assured again and again that there would be no *compensation* for your act of generosity–so that we could get our [...]

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (4)

Beginning in 1963, officials at the Willowbrook State School, a residence for developmentally disabled children in Staten Island, New York, intentionally infected healthy children with hepatitis in order to test the effects of gamma globulin on the disease. For three years, school officials repeatedly injected the children with viral agents, until public outcry stopped the [...]