Uninvited
We’ll stay if we want
Searching through your closets
For your grandfathers gun
-Cake
Over the last several days, I have made several attempts at writing a piece for this site, or for the Dig, called “Minimum Wage Nation.” The basic thrust of the whole thing was going to be that, like most families in America, our beloved country [...]
Here’s to the confusion of our enemies! - Frank Sinatra
Dear Government:
I would like to ask you a question. If I were in charge of Homeland Security (or just if we were living in that fantasy world where everyone listened to me and believed in my righteous rightness), can you guess where I would put all [...]
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. - Johnny Cash
Uh-oh. You need a subscription to read it, and if you’re too lazy, let me get you up [...]
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
[...]
So I’ve figured out what’s wrong with my MT install - my server, which I have long lauded as the poor man’s gold mine, has been surpassed by the new Movable Type’s ability to thresh information. It times out, its DBI isn’t new enough, and so on. I have devised methods for getting around [...]