But whether all that came to good or evil, I don't know. Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun

The Property Rights Pill - Why It’s Good Medicine ( Read more... )

NEVER move into a house with both your SO and your mother, just don't. For months there has been fight after fight after fight. They are both wonderful, terrific people; but the two of them in the same home was just a mistake. The real problem is that because of my relationship with each of them, instead of talking to each other about the ( Read more... )

Special thanks to metaphorge,oopsz, and maqtul for thier assistance in ridding my computer of the evil plague known as omegasearch. Spybot caught a lot of stuff adaware and norton hadn't, and Hijackthis got rid of the omegasearch thing, along with some crap realplayer put on my comp I've been trying to delete for ages.

Thanks guys!

human happiness has a direct connection with the joy of discovery. Whether it is opening a new book, setting foot on the moon for the first time, finding a cure for a disease, or exploring a lover's body; our minds are programmed to take pleasure in the act of exploration. And so much of humanity's suffering is directly related to one block or ( Read more... )

anybody know how to get rid of this damned omegasearch virus/spyware that has hijacked my computer? Its the first thing I've encountered that has managed to evade the clutches of BOTH adaware AND norton and it is killing my processing speed...

Anybody interested in Salvia divinorum cuttings? I may have some rooted ones here in the next few weeks as my enormous mama plant is dying and I'm going to try to get as many clones from her as possible...

How you can help cure a multitude of diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow and Parkinson's, without donating a single penny or giving more than five minutes of your time

So, work on the outline crawls along. It's already a seventeen page monster, and I'm not sure how far into the plot I've gone because as always, the more involved I get with a story the deeper it gets ( Read more... )

Formal freedom becomes substantial freedom when a significant percentage of the population chooses to excercise that formal freedom.

You can stop ten people from sitting down on a bus, but it's pretty difficult to stop ten thousand.