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Writer's Block: Confidences
It is always easier to talk to my closest friends about problems than it is to talk with family or strangers. My friends know me and understand what bothers me and why. My family hasn't bothered to get to know me, and strangers are, well strangers. With friends there are no trust issues, and you choose your friends. Their choice may be arbitrary, ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: What is your name?
Funny you should ask that. My parents explained that they were considering two names for me. The first was Adam, and the second was the one they gave me. Mind you they chose the second because they didn't want to duplicate any name in the family. After the fact they discovered that my father had a relative with the same first name who had a bastard ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Grab and Go
I'd find collect two pieces of data. The first would be the full truth behind 9-11 whatever that may be. The second would be collect all evidence of War Crimes committed by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, copies to be forwarded to international courts.
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Writer's Block: Controversial Interrogation Techniques
We are talking about torture. Just call it torture. The answer to the question is that torture is very ineffective at getting good intelligence. It is great for getting people to say what you want, say for propaganda purposes, but as far as intelligence goes it is a waste of time. So it is never acceptable to use torture to get intelligence. What's ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: The Geneva Conventions & the War on Terror
How you treat you enemies tells the world a lot about who you are as a nation, perhaps even more than how you treat your people. The Bush Administration treated both deplorably. The ludicrous statement that we were liberating and bringing democracy and freedom to Iraq while committing War Crimes, atrocities; violating the civil rights of citizens ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Prison Food is Punishment Enough
Thai Food, the best requires a native or a pro to make. I don't have to eat it even once a month, but knowing I can drive a half hour and get the best Thai Food in the area helps me make it through the day. Knowing that was no longer an option would be torture.
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Writer's Block: Prison Time
Privacy would be what i would miss most. Being stuck in close proximity to so many overwrought souls would be a particularly painful punsihment.
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Writer's Block: Ripped from the Headlines
The claims of the Zeitgeist movie, especially the two about 9/11 being perpetrated by the government and the banking/financial crisis being a deliberate act certainly fall into that category. I’m not a conspiracy buff, I don’t even like them. Still some of the things that they said were chilling. The collapse of building 7 without any planes ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: What My Friends & Family Would Say about Me
My best friend would say that it is my love of a well told tale and my twisted sense of plot. We both love stories and developing characters. As far as my family goes they wouldn't have a clue. They were never interested in learning who I am. They preferred to just assume that they already knew despite regular proof to the contrary.
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Letting Fear Be Your Master
I have a friend who's birthday is the 2nd. He is creative and intelligent and so full of self-loathing that he is only a handful of steps away from self-destruction. Fortunately it isn't to the point that it controls him every moment of the day. No, he is still at the stage that he can perform more or less normally for short periods of time. It is ( Read more... )