It's interesting (in a horrified and disgusted sense of the word) to see the US reactions to their latest mass shooting.
Is it to think logically about the single common thread between mass shootings (which is to say, GUNS) and work to eliminate them?

No.

It's to try and develop ways so that when the next mass-shooting occurs you can minimise the ( Read more... )

2GB, the radio station, was originally owned by the Theosophical Broadcasting Station Pty Ltd.
The GB part actually stands for Giordano Bruno.
Yeah, that's whacky.

The Master said, "Can you love anyone without making him work hard? Can you do your best for anyone without educating him?"

Analects XIV:VII

A jūnzǐ helps others to take their stand in so far as he himself wishes to take his stand, and gets others there in so far as he himself wishes to get there.

Analects VI:XXX

I was reading today that since John Howard instituted the gun-buy back scheme in the wake of Port Arthur, there hasn't been a mass shooting ( Read more... )

( Ignore if Kipling irritates you )

Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star next to the ones you love.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert*
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le ( Read more... )

Khan comes back from school today, hopefully all educated :)

...the government could introduce real religious guidance in the schools ( Read more... )

The universe was created,  according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar,  6,010 years ago, yesterday.

Finally got CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) working again, which means that I can work from my Linux side of my computer...
...therefore not be distracted by TitanQuest or Civ4 or so on.

Well, that's the plan.