After a fun afternoon at Fabric Fiber & Fighting VI*, I had a near miss with a deer on the way home. Deer#1 crossed well ahead of me, and deer #2 darted across toward the front of my car. I knew I couldn't stop. So I swerved into the shoulder and accelerated, but just barely not quickly enough. I felt the deer make contact, running into the back of ( Read more... )

AgentK (the laptop) is in for repairs; the hard drive was indeed the problem. The guy at the repair place said, "Yeah, these drives fail pretty often." Lesson, people: Back up your shit. Regularly. Anyway, he should return tomorrow at which point I suspect I'll need to purchase a lot of software (at least my favorite and the de facto office suites ( Read more... )

Strip mining for Whimsy has a brief history of the Arab-Israeli conflict which points out some of the less talked about points about the reasons the Jews flocked to the region and why the Arabs who were already there changed their minds about accepting their presence. It all comes back to colonialism.

Arms and Influence posts about Carry Ons and ( Read more... )

A black teenager in South Carolina was raped and stabbed by two white men. She was able to get away by playing dead and fleeing when they left to get supplies to get rid of her body. One of the accused is known to authorities as a white supremacist, and there are indications that the victim of this crime was not the first the accused men targeted. ( Read more... )