Do Not Mess with the Cult

There are times when belonging to a fanatical subculture can be greatly to your advantage, as this true crime story attests.

[via boing boing]

Why must they make generalizations?

This form of statement annoys me and when referring to people or their products is almost always wrong: all X are Y. (The astute reader will observe that this objection is somewhat recursive. Yeah, well. Goes to show.)

Blogs are outlines, and blogging is a form of outlining.

Uh, NO.

At least, not necessarily. I wish all the outlining chauvinists would just keep their prejudices to themselves.

He's baaaaaack!

Mad William Flint is back and blogging, after a power-outage interruption. Y'all drop by now.

Price List

I've bought an ad in the Washington Post. The price list is up online. God I hope this stuff sells soon.

No Mere Rhetoric

Jeff Ward of this Public Address is making a valuable contribution to our society, for the right reasons, in the right way:

I like giving people the tools they need to fight for what they believe in -- without guns, without fists, without hurting anyone. Yes, it can hurt to break down some treasured assumptions about what it means to be patriotic or a good citizen. But this is mental fight, and it needs to be raised to a higher level so that we won't be embarrassed in the future by the hollow rhetoric of talking heads. I want to teach people how to take that junk apart and make better decisions. It isn't about conveying politics. It's about transmitting the tools needed to "not get fooled again."

As long as some people are not free, none of us really are.

If only more of us could be persuaded to settle our differences with a war of words.