Becoming More Than Being

Light believing in darkness, finding purpose in its own absence, a strange faith in antithesis as great as the faith it has in itself. Finding definition in opposition, struggling to find peace, there is a poison inherent in the very fight to become: a burning venom coursing in rest, finding strength in apathy, growing stronger as becoming gives over to simply being.

MG - Corr Tells Margaret A Little About The Broken Archons

"The Broken Archons tried to steal tomorrow while the Princes slept,“ Corr told her as the ancient rail car clacked and shuddered through the dark. ”They wanted to study it, take it apart, understand its configuration and find a way to re-splice themselves back into the base code of reality. “It was the Metro Gnome who sounded the alarm. His sensitivity to the vectors and patterns of the world keyed him in as the first hints of temporal dissonance radiated out from their efforts. He threw open a channel to every king, count, and majordomo connected by him, and his shriek of pained confusion brought the Archons down almost before they'd breached the Linear Escarpment."

"So, what happened to them?" Maggie asked.

"They were rounded up, neutered to destroy any remaining access they had to the creative force, and stuck into the deep holes of the world to be forgotten. Their names have been marked anathema into the Quiddity Sphere, and I honestly don't think even they remember them anymore."

Brown Shirts Unite!

“Last week, a protester hanged an effigy of Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., Democrat of Maryland, at a rally opposing health care change. This week, Representative Brad Miller, Democrat of North Carolina, said he had received a death threat about his support.” - Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings by Ian Urbina

Fascism, historically, is a conservative, backwards looking world view that eschews dialogue, preferring a more force oriented means to ends methodology.

As relates to the linked article this begs the question: which group is really acting like Nazis?

The Brownian Motion of Tadpoles

The Narrow Mouth Toad does have a fairly small mouth, but is not in fact a toad.  Small and terribly shy, they come out in the rain to mate sounding like a flock of ailing lambs calling desperately for their mothers.  Tracking the furtive, imperfect bleats to their source can be impossible at times, but that just increases the joy of actually finding one.

The Best Justice Money Can Buy

“The Justice Department said a 1976 law on sovereign immunity protected the Saudis from liability and noted that “potentially significant foreign relations consequences” would arise if such suits were allowed to proceed.“ - Eric Lichtblau, Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists

Odd how we have this 1976 law which provides protection from legal action in the face of presentable if sometimes tenuous evidence, but there seems to have been no law against fabricating information in order to invade Iraq.

I also note the mention on yesterdays Democracy Now! that the Supreme Court has chosen not to hear Valerie Plame’s case against the Bush administration for illegally outing her as an undercover CIA agent.

I need to find out where the Texas Mafia gets those wonderful teflon suits.