Being an interstellar pilot might be incredibly fun at first, but in the end it would always end up being excessively dangerous, or excessively automated (and thus kinda boring). Not that I am getting bored of the EVE Online, but rather that I cannot imagine making my living that way for many years in real life. An apple a day doesn’t really keep the doctor away, but that’s good when you’re dating a doctor-to-be. Being really organized isn’t all that hard. It just takes a tiny bit more effort output at the beginning of a project… but will require much …
Tag: politics
Why They’re Going Down
One of the few blog postings I’m likely to make this week, as I get stuff together. While scouring the Web for nice styles to kidnap and mutate for my own eclexysian ends, I came across a very well-put little post over at Ex Cathedra, where the point is made that the RIAA cartel of today is comparable to nothing more than to the sheet music publishers of yesteryear. The difference, however, is that Boosey & Hawkes is still in business, while I don’t imagine that BMG will still be around in any form like the present in, say, the …
Legal Rave Busted
Wow, so now it’s possible for the National Guard to storm in and shut down a totally legal party? (I’m assuming the people posting testimonials aren’t all bleeding liars. I might be wrong.) I’ve never been more than a very peripheral participant in the world of raves—a high school friend hosted some, and DJed, and invited a group I played with to perform at a few, but I was never really emotionally attached to the scene. Still, while there’s a lot of petty drug use at these things, it’s no more than one finds at, say, your average high school, …
A Screed Worth Reading
This John Ross article at counterpunch.com brings my friend Adam to mind. It’s called Pope Ratzo and the Hucksters of Death. It’s viciously critical of the American “Christian Right” and of the Catholic Church’s nomination of Rightwing Ratzinger as Pope. Again, the hammering point where I have to agree: if everyone’s so damned Christian, why are they wasting time talking about condoms and sex when there are literally millions of people dying from something both Jesus and all other voices in the Bible condemn thoroughly—poverty?
Frodo Baggins Shocked To Return Home To Find Corruption
The Shire (Brandywine Network) – Amid a scene of treeless devastation, tangled waggon-pieces, tarred sheds, and a political intrigue, Frodo Baggins and his band of political malcontents have arrived in the Shire. After a long and protracted occupation of Mordor, and the loss of thousands of elves, dwarves, and men from the Western lands—especially Gondorese and Rohirrim—these onetime members of the Fellowship of the Ring have returned home not to peace, but to more struggle. Apparently being beset by bandits did not trouble Baggins. “He said that were to be expected, in a time so harsh as this one, right …