Some heady cognitive dissonance here – this traitor “trader” and his advice are good news only for that increasingly-mythical American middle class: [via Lance Robotson] Excerpts: I’m a trader, I don’t really care… We don’t really care that much, how to fix the economy, how to fix the situation – our job is to make [...]

Well, this is not satisfactory – been awake for more than 24 hours and don’t feel tired. Lost count of how many days this has gone on. Alacrity 500mg: dose titration advised. Intolerable addictions may include consciousness. No profound realizations, just the same quotidian nonsense – SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK – into perpetuity. Put on some [...]

[via Lance Robotson] … any questions?

These drugs, in this family, do not calm or sedate the nerves. They attack. They attack from so deep inside you, you cannot locate the source of the pain … The muscles of your jawbone go berserk, so that you bite the inside of your mouth and your jaw locks and the pain throbs. For [...]

In 1971, Chapman became a born again Christian, and distributed Biblical tracts. He met his first girlfriend, another Christian named Jessica Blankenship. He began work as a YMCA summer camp counselor; he was very popular with the children, who nicknamed him “Nemo”. He won an award for Outstanding Counselor and was made assistant director. Those [...]

In 2006, he published a paper in the journal International Security announcing his deceptively potent insight: As a political tactic, terrorism doesn’t work. The record shows that terrorists hardly ever get what they want from the governments they attack, Abrahms found; on the contrary, governments are much more likely to react to terrorism by digging [...]

Whether or not it was the work of a terrorist group* 2,752 people lost their lives in a series of pyrotechnic plane crashes and building implosions ten years ago. Those people made up 0.1% of the 2,416,425 deaths which occurred in the United States (pop ~300,000,000) in 2001. Crude analogy: If the United States were [...]

Trapperkeeper by Lazer Sword … Burn, little effigies, burn …