Entries from July 2003
Capturing the Friedmans
Pederasty just isn’t nice.
Brights
Bright = the happy way to say you’re a God-hating motherfucker.
Twister, baby
“I think the burden is on those people who think he didn’t have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.”
Ari Fleischer
You’ve got to love this stuff. It’s like a verbal Möbius strip.
Hoaxing
Hoaxes can be fun, up to a point.
Flightpath wins
Flightpath receives variance on parking requirements.
The Name of the Rose
Finished reading The Name of the Rose today. An excellent book I can’t recommend highly enough. It is a book about perversions. Perversions of faith, of knowledge, and of sex, and the ways in which these perversion lead to bad ends. It is about the conflict between faith and reason (this theme was the main [...]
Liveable City
Liveable City is a community-activism group trying to keep (make?) Austin, well, a liveable city. The board has some good people on it–the Spelmans and Catharine Echols are people I know with a track record for getting good things done.
Spam in my name
Spammers, this means war
Science fiction, double feature
The Day The Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet at the Paramount: thumbs up.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Who watches the watchers? You do!
