Tag Archives: rant
fear of wide open spaces
(semantic jungle, make of it what you will) We like to wrap ourselves in security blankets. We cling to things that make us feel ‘secure’; our jobs our homes our religions our identities, or should I say, our identifications? To …
fuck the cia. :)
In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable only to the president, and has no democratic oversight, and even their accountability to the president is tenuous …
paranoiac?
will posting this get me fired from my job? (probably not?)
I just got home from a barbecue with some people I work with at and I walked into the middle of a conversation about a new policy I hadn’t heard about. Apparently, employees can expect to be fired for posting …
Science, Wonder, and the Beauty of What’s Real
The struggle to find meaning in life seems almost to be a basic human impulse. Those who choose to engage in that struggle will find it both difficult and rewarding. Finding true meaning, for me, doesn’t come from made up …
telescoping evolution
Keeping in the same vein as my last couple posts about accelerating technology, here’s a clip from an excellent movie called ‘waking life’, where accelerating change is talked about not only as a technological phenomenon, but an all-pervasive one. It …
but if i wait for a holiday, could it stop my fear?
I was wrestling with ‘everybody’s working for the weekend’ as the title of the post, but in the end I decided Vampire Weekend was hipper than Loverboy. Yes, I’ve basically turned to quotes and song lyrics as the titles for …
did you know that europe is now a country? neither did i!
This is because technically, using the words they are using, it isn’t a country, it’s the EUROPEAN UNION. But what (if not a country) do you call it when a group of… lets call them nation-states, but the nation is …
…complains that more guys don’t experiment (ie. want to have sex with me)
I think it’s really interesting how right now it’s much more prominent for girls to experiment with girls than guys with guys. No wait, not interesting, I meant shitty. For me. But fine, whatever, the thing that really gets me …
food
now i’m probably the last person who should be proselytizing about food but my own example is kind of my point. i’m utterly and hopelessly addicted to shitty food. well, not hopelessly. never hopelessly. since high school i’ve opened up …
