While I deal with the insomnia caused by having come home and crashed in sheer physical pain and exhaustion at 8 o' clock and mentally fortify myself against the hour when I get to go out again and traverse three miles of slush in the falling sleet for the privilege of working 9 hours for sub-living wages, I might as well try to knock down a couple ( Read more... )

Kevin Church contextualizes Rudy Giuliani's remarks.

(No, Nothing New isn't turning into Eschaton, I'm just plotzing w/RL stress and too much stuff right now. Intelligent commentary, or at least lengthy, will return in a bit.)

I won't require high-ranking female members of my organization to wear a stainless-steel bustier. Morale is better with a more casual dress-code. Similarly, outfits made entirely from black leather will be reserved for formal occasions.Okay, you may have thought I was joking about the long list of Evil Overlord violations, but really, I wasn't. We ( Read more... )

Oh, did auld Willie have a gift for turning a phrase -- and the older I get, the more it does seem that all things "perne in a gyre". He was writing about them the first time they came along - but it wasn't really the first, after all, these things just keep coming around and around and around, in new suits to fit the cut of the times. ( two for the present hour )

--Well, there was no end-of-book whammy like say finding out that the so!hott! alien prince who says he loves you more than life itself and considers you a living goddess has actually cursed you to undeath and eventual madness as an immortal warlord - purely out of the highest moral principles, in order to save his people and planet from utter ( Read more... )

This is, as they say on Wikipedia, a "stub": I found out about Mr. Root from thirdworldtraveler, an unabashedly leftwing site whose allegations I have so far been able to find independent confirmation of (when i didn't have it to begin with) but I haven't had the chance to go and look at hard copy news media in library archives since dowsing up his ( Read more... )

...It might be that their lives were hard and that not all of their hopes had been fulfilled; but they were conscious that they were not as other animals. If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves. No creature among them went upon two legs. No creature called any ( Read more... )

...The Chilean naval training ship "Esmeralda" (Buque Escuela "Esmeralda") is a four masted barquentine [photos under sail] which makes yearly training voyages visiting ports around the world acting as a "roving" embassy for Chile. In April 2003, the "Esmeralda" set off on her 48th training trip, with plans to call at ports in Peru, Ecuador, France ( Read more... )