Anything seen may observe reciprocallyand then there are the stars

We were ordered to open fire on the truck, and we were just doing our job. A job that was illegally ordered by a Congress and White House without any recognition of international law, let alone humanity. How were we to know if the white Toyota truck wasn’t loaded with explosives, ready to blow us [...]

The site promises to deliver some utility you (or an unsuspecting member of your family) might find useful – perhaps it’s a collection of new smiley-faces to be included in chat, perhaps it’s an cartoon engine for creating cutesy avatars… whatever it is, it apparently includes a healthy dose of eyes-glazing-over legalese before it happily [...]

Many points worth considering are made in this documentary.

Earlier today I was struck by an aspect of myself which left me at a loss for words – I knew there was some description for what I was experiencing which would sum up my thoughts on the matter and allow me to better understand myself (cue the immediate reaction to mouseover the “Back” button [...]

… no reason to avoid finding the beauty in a filthy greenback. I rede that oure hoost heere shal bigynne, For he is moost envoluped in synne. Com forth, sire hoost, and offre first anon, And thou shalt kisse the relikes everychon, Ye, for a grote! unbokele anon thy purs. – The Pardoner’s Taleby Geoffrey [...]

It is a summary pain, that which wraps up one’s existence as one swaddled in downy blankets, a hand-worn, grime-caked steel instrument in oily canvas, or anything biological in a thin layer of translucent painter’s polyethene dropcloth – a chrysalis for a nascent gift to the world which wishes never to be unwrapped.

The world still lingers just shy of a full-out pandemic, according to World Health Organization officials. While confirmed cases of a new influenza strain and related hospitalizations in the United States continue to rise, no new deaths have been reported. – Worldwide flu cases top 700 at USAToday.com That number is nowhere near the number [...]

From my August 30th, 2008 post regarding the Bayer CropScience Facility Explosion in Institute, West Virginia: I rarely read much of the news, though it does lead one to wonder – how often do reporters substitute a quip from a company spokesman/government official/authority figure for factual information? Conveniently enough, a congressional review of the incident [...]

My initial goal for this site was to present a quantity of spoken material (with accompanying text, of course). A dearth of decent recording equipment prevented me from immediately realizing my very special plan for this site (I’ll be talking of “special plans” for a while now – thanks, Ligotti) though I did seek out [...]