“How do you have time?” At first, I made it seem like writing time randomly occurred, “Oh well…I just sit down for a little bit here and there” or “I have the weekends sometimes,” but the more I reflect o
I assure you it is. It’s an interesting collection of people, is what I’m saying. A crowd with strong ideas and, in many ways, very polar worldviews. From the preppers and strongly conservative libertarian folks interested in unhindered living to the environmental activists who push for str...
Stead311 said: “I think it was said best by Alec Baldwin in “The Departed”:” The original was better, but that is completely beside the point, now isn’t it? On another note, I always suspected that women had a STRONG flock instinct, but I didn’t figure men were that way. ...
There were two equally alarming prospects: the nuclear fuel might fall into the wrong hands, leading to any number of diabolical designs; or the slab of migrating ice might slowly grind the plutonium into a paste and deposit it into the Sanctuary melt waters, shuttling the four pounds of radi...
Monday I ranthe obituaryof Sun-Times celebrity columnist Irv Kupcinet. So it seems fitting that today. I run his wife's. Reading this now, after 24 years, a few things come to mind. First, it might not be written quite this way today. We like to give people agency, and women tend...
I’m hopefully on the way to unfucking myself. I told a couple of people that love me that I’m not quite right at the moment. I’m watching what I’m doing and making sure there is a rational reason for doing it. I’m watching for the inevitable depression crash. I’m planning...
Buffy: “No. I don’t wanna bug Giles. He’s still kind of twitchy when it comes to the subject of Angel.” Xander: “Oh, it must be that whole ‘Angel killed his girlfriend and tortured him’ thing. And Giles is pretty petty when it comes to stuff like that.” ...
As the squadron departed St. Julian’s Bay, the sun was shining pleasantly, and the wind blew in a favorable direction. It appeared to be a beautiful day for sailing. Commodore Anson would later write: We passed those memorable Streights, ignorant of the dreadful calamities which were then...
I’d been to NYC a couple of years ago and had seen the pockmarks in the building. A local was on the corner, giving out handbills for something touristy, who knew the month/year of the incident and that it was an explosion; but nothing more. I learned more about when I got home...
You take the organic solvent and put it through a series of acid and base washes to precipitate out the cocaine base. [Not that I’ve done this myself. I used to be a forensic drug analyst; during a training session, I saw a DEA video on the process, as filmed by an agent in ...