"Possibly we shall know a little more than we do now. But the real nature of things, that we shall never know, never." --Albert Einstein

Thomas Pynchon on 1984

Prison art

Ashcroft's detention camps for US citizens declared enemy combatants

Sex is a brain thing

Our Preposterous Universe

Spam, spam, spam, spam

A personal experience with the new police state.
(Working link, thanks to James)

Do not try this at home.
(Working link, thanks to James)

Word of the day: appurtenance
Something added to another, more important thing; an appendage

Bush is trying to suppress the 911 report

One day, a little while after this, Satan appeared again. We were always watching out for him, for life was never very stagnant when he was by. He came upon us at that place in the woods where we had first met him. Being boys, we wanted to be entertained; we asked him to do a show for us.

"Very well," he said; "would you like to see a history of the progress of the human race? -- its development of that product which it calls civilization?"

Mark Twain "A History of War" from The Mysterious Stranger

"On Monday, April 17th, 2000 at about 8:30 am near the corner of 18th and K I was beaten by a plainclothes officer (not sure if fed or mpd) after photographing him going crazy though the streets hitting people over the headwith his baton. At the time I didn't even think it wasa cop! Wearing my Independent Media Center badge, I photographed this man, who I believed was an motorist angry about the traffic disruptions. After seeing me about to take the photograph of him, he lunged towards my neck with his hands and proceeded to club me at least two times with this club like device and pushed me to the ground. He then hit me several more times and wrestled the camera from my hands. I called for police to arrest this man still believing this was a case of road rage. Upon arrival the police officer (not sure if MPD,secret service or another agency) informed me that the man was a plainclothes officer."
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parodies of Chick tracts, for your fundie friends

No, really, how much would could a woodchuck chuck?

How to Give Up Hope - An Exile Guide

August Strindberg in "Absinthe and Women"

Leon Trotsky's "FASCISM: What it is and how to fight it"

Paul Laffoley
Biography from the Kent Gallery in NYC

Fucking scary