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On Our Ravenous Appetite for Pieces to the Wrong Puzzle

“I’m entitled to an explanation! You owe your stockholders an account of the whole disgraceful affair! Why did you pick a worthless mine? Why did you waste all those millions? What sort of rotten swindle was it?”
Francisco shook his head regretfully. “I don’t know why you should call my behavior [...]

On an Unsavory Accounting

Numbers Don’t Lie
Thursday night found me resisting sleep with the remote. They’ve syndicated Magnum P.I. again. While mustachioed men in hot pants will keep me awake, I wasn’t in the mood.
I drop in on TBN periodically, feigning fair balance. That evening, I gently put down the remote to catch the last few [...]

How Stupid Do They Think God Made Us?

A recent U.S. survey showed that the majority of people say they believe in God. Yet, ironically, at the same time most people say they also believe in evolution! Clearly many people are confused or they honestly aren’t sure what to believe.
The Good News

I like peanut butter. I also like pants. [...]

God Inside My Head

Eternity is Pretty Big After All
I’m hesitant to apologize for not having posted more, for all sorts of reasons; but I’d still like to note that I’ve had a lot of things worth writing vying for brainspace lately. They tend to lose out to more immediate concerns or tinkering with Linux, though, due in [...]

4 out of 5 Strange Bedfellows Agree

Less Is…Less
I’ve been following an idea, an ideal, of simplification. I’ve been streamlining, removing the extraneous to expose the necessary. Like most folks, I dig my fair share of excess, of accumulation of things and people and prejudices and assumptions. All those things are useful to one or another degree, and anyone [...]

Ten Signs 2006 Will Be the Year of the Apocalypse

The Campbell’s Chunky soup you brought for lunch is boiling after being microwaved.
You can’t seem to settle on a name for the debut LP you’ll never release, but find “Spontaneous Human Corruption” the snappiest so far.
You’ve searched eBay for rare Michael Landon memorabilia—twice.
You visit the Hustler Superstore in Monroe, Ohio, partly to sate your appetite [...]

Proxy Content

I’m attempting to post more frequently, for my own good, but using the benefit of possible discussion as a carrot. That is, I like exercising my mind and feeling all smart and whatever, but I also want to engender discussion here.
To that end, I’m going to get a little slithery and post (again) what [...]

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