From Patrick Nielsen Hayden:
The Motion Picture Association of America, chief sponsor and financier of SOPA and PIPA, addresses Wikipedia, Reddit, and other major sites going dark tomorrow, accusing them of “abuse of power.” “It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the ( Read more... )

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So I decided sometime a while back that rationality wasn't getting me anywhere and I should behave like a crazy person to see if that helped any. What happened instead? I began to have irrational thoughts but, aside from a few quirks like refusing to answer the telephone, my behavior has still been altogether too sensible. This is not the ( Read more... )

I am not a mind-reader. I do not know what you are thinking if you won't tell me. On those occasions when it seems that I do know what's going through your brain, chances are that's because I've been paying attention. I do that sometimes ( Read more... )

Rationality? Goodbye. Logic? Pffft. Sanity? What have you done for me lately? Leave me alone, the whole lot of you. Here I've been patiently being reasonable and logical all this time and where has it gotten me? Sitting miserably at home dehydrating myself because logic tells me things will keep getting worse and I can't stop crying ( Read more... )