You know what would be cool? If all the PublishAmerica types started talking about PQN, so the rest of us could get back to talking about POD as a printing technology and as a business model for book manufacturers, rather than as a pseudo-business-model for pseudo-publishers.
Y'all maybe saw this already over at Atrios' place, but just in case: CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described: Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death. If this isn't what Goss is talking about, he ought to say so.
But Porter Goss says we need waterboarding to extract false confessions!
(Okay, he didn't exactly say that. But I think the implication was there.)
Considering all their "Got Jesus?" talk, a lot of Evangelicals seem awfully disgruntled about the New Covenant.
I liked the first Foreigner, but somewhere around there -- also somewhere around the third or fourth Fortress book -- all of Cherryh's new stuff (Hammerfall included) started to run together for me.
I think it was a bad sign when she turned away from the tragic implications of the set-up she had with the early Fortress books to write yet another "our heroes resolve all misunderstandings and conflicts among themselves and go on to defeat some faceless bad guys we've never been introduced to" ending.
Poetry, is it? On a different note, then, in case y'all haven't seen this yet:
Wha be tha carl wha ne wolden flee
Whan peril bene all aboughte?
SHAFT!
Fine. Let's not hate-mail the City of Gretna. Let's send them a quiet, civilized entreaty asking whether this is really the sort of behavior they want their names attached to. And citing Matthew 25.
Contact info for the City of Gretna:
http://www.gretnala.com/contact/contact.html
City of Gretna
P.O. Box 404
Gretna, LA, 70054-0404
Phone: (504) 363-1505
Fax: (504) 363-1509
E mail: rharris@gretnala.com
If anybody actually does want blog posts about the Roberts hearings, SCOTUSBlog has some that are a little more substantive.
Jim White, "Still Waters". The lyrics don't fit all that well, but Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus uses it as the soundtrack for the opening swamp montage...
I always thought barred spirals were cooler anyway.
Funny, I just reread All Tomorrow's Parties. Same reaction. "Can we reset to 1993, please? I want my fuckin' eyephones!"
I think the "Lorem ipsum" news section is the equivalent of the infamous "Step 3" in that Slashdot-style, dot-com era business model. You know:
Step 1: Invade Iraq.
Step 2: Quagmire.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!
It looks like the bastard child of a kebab and the John Hancock building.
I guess if it isn't totally unlivable at ground level, I'll be satisfied. (But what are the chances of that?)
Move the goalposts. Create false dichotomies. Take advantage of my expectations. Manipulate me.
But see also Hawaii Housing Authority et. al. v. Midkiff et. al.. That's the thing about the law: it's hard to keep it from pointing both ways.
The Life at Low Reynolds Number piece is bloody amazing. If all that's been known for nearly thirty years, how come nobody told me till now? (And how much time is being wasted by people doing computer simulations to figure out stuff about bacterial behavior that was figured out thirty years ago? -- Well, probably not that much, I admit; I assume actual bacteriologists know this stuff. But that lecture has "a-life simulation" written all over it...)
Not that I'd necessarily agree with Finney in all things, or even many things, but "protecting the innocent" does not necessarily equate to "an expression of supreme love to God and equal love to man".
I'm seeing a clear pattern here: Bush's non-service record, doing stupid things to Korans, now this -- whenever something unpleasant to the administration starts to look like it might develop into a story, attack some tangential aspect of the way people are talking about it, and make that the story, instead. It seems to be working pretty well, and as long as the press thinks reporting what the administration is saying about the story is the same thing as reporting on the story, I'm not sure what there is to be done about it. Anyone got any ideas?
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