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Capitalism Saved My Life (A Little)

In Foolishness, Technology, Venom on 10 November 2005 with no comments

Thank you, Coca-Cola-vending-machine-price-setting minions of The Great Carmel-colored Caffeine Cartel! You have saved my life through judicious use of stupidity and a preternatural ignorance of market forces! It’s almost as if you used gravity to help me not fall, only not.
You see…

You’ve priced your 20-ounce beverage, delivered not at all gently from the [...]

Boogie

In Aldous, Venom on 5 November 2005 with no comments

Late last week, President Bush announced his second nomination for a Supreme Court justice to replace retiring justice O’Connor. I won’t link to any stories—they’re very easily found, if you somehow managed not to hear anything about it.
I don’t post much about primarily political topics, but this struck me as odd. So many [...]

Dead Folks Walkin’

In Aldous, Muse, Venom on 22 October 2005 with no comments

It’s not only through superpowered do-gooders that comics can inform our worldview.

An Aside, with Venom

In Venom on 27 September 2005 with no comments

I’m amazed at the capacity of some to so fully indulge their excuses for vileness that they profane against those they claim to love. They don’t know love; yet they would destroy in its name.
You’ve given yourself the excuse of a broken heart as an armor, and, really, I don’t care anymore. Against [...]

The Spirit and the Letter

In Aldous, Venom on 18 September 2005 with 3 comments

Part Three: Culture Shock Troops

Part One: The Beginning of the End
Part Two: All You Need is Love

The obvious need for the letter is to prevent different presumed spirits of intent from coming into conflict without some means of objective resolution. Communities of all sizes and constitutions develop codified systems of rules to standardize such [...]

The Spirit and the Letter

In Aldous, Venom on 17 September 2005 with 1 comment

Part Two: All You Need is Love

Part One: The Beginning of the End
Part Three: Culture Shock Troops

I have, for the most part, come to terms with the fact that I will need to fight for my rights as a father to four of the seven children in my life. It gets better. [It [...]

The Spirit and the Letter

In Aldous, Venom on 16 September 2005 with 2 comments

Part One: The Beginning of the End

Part Two: All You Need is Love
Part Three: Culture Shock Troops

In 1986, I joined the Air Force JROTC squadron at Lebanon High School. For those unfamiliar with the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), the U.S. military has established a program through which to educate young men and women [...]