…One Less Scene

Imagine it:
An ultra-conservative, republican-led faction of the U.S. military storms into the white house and holds the Obama family at gunpoint. The Obamas are marched outside and loaded into vehicles that drive them into Canada, where they are dumped in Toronto.  Declaring the end of the Obama presidency, the coup leaders take over the entire [...]

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“It is characteristic of the spirited man that he takes an expansive view of the boundary of his own stuff- he tends to act as though any material things he uses are in some sense properly his, while he is using them- and when he finds himself in public spaces that seem contrived to break [...]

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Mt Shasta as seen from the I5 corridor.

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From A History of Modern Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
“It was an age (3rd century BC) in which a man who had money and no desire for power could enjoy a very pleasant life- always assuming that no marauding army happened to come his way. Learned men who found favour with some prince could enjoy a [...]

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One of Luke’s most incredible displays of athleticism was when he would become a human flag. He could grab onto a vertical pole of some kind, and with his hands spaced about three feet apart on the pole, he could extend his body out horizontally so that he resembled a flag in the wind. Of [...]

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Adam’s memorial services at the Belltown Underground last night were one of the last times that so many members of Seattle’s messenger community will be in the same room together. I saw people that I hadn’t seen in years, but that I used to see every day. It was a somber gathering, but certainly not [...]

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Part-time poets. And coaches.

Anybody that reads the newspapers knows that “peak oil” is a silly conspiracy theory, something that only black helicopter-obsessed wing-nuts would entertain. After all, the International Energy Agency, an “intergovernmental organisation which acts as energy policy advisor to 28 member countries in their effort to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for their [...]

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