As usual, I will insist that we have a good idea of what we mean by a word or a phrase before we start talking about it.
“Conventional” of course comes from “convene”. What does “convene” mean? Simply this: “con” - together plus “vene” - come. So “conventional” means just “the state of having come together”, […]

Jupiter got smacked… again. We didn’t see it coming this time, as we (well, a couple of us, anyway: Shoemaker and Levy) did in 1994. That one was spectacular, as a chain of glowing bodies rat-a-tat-tatted against Jupiter over quite a bit of time. This one was unseen: the impactor (whatever it was) wasn’t glowing […]

The language we speak - ‘we’ meaning me and those who are reading this - is called “English”.
I’m writing this because of a recent incident, caused by my inability to have complete control over my anger. In essence, and without naming any names (to protect the stupid) here’s what happened: I had tried several […]

Why do you carry a combination bug and tracking device around with you wherever you go?
Unwarranted Intrusion: GPS and the Fourth Amendment | American Constitution Society is an article about a form of surveillance that most people seem to be unaware of.
Let me start by saying this as clearly and concisely as I can: YOUR […]

I’m a little peeved about… no, wait - let me be completely honest about this: I’m not a little peeved, I’m seriously pissed off about - the “gotcha’s” that computer companies try to cram down our throats.
I’ve seen these twice today, and the second one has been thrown in my face three or four […]

… “computer-mediated telepathy”??? Hmmmm… this doesn’t involve having a “chip” injected into your ass (oh, sorry… was that your head?), by any chance? What was it ol’ Tim McVeigh said about the butt-chip the Army gave him?
Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push

“Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals.
When the soldiers of […]

One of the most interesting web sites about the so-called Income Tax that I’ve come across is that of a lawyer in Shreveport.
To see what he’s got, start here.
Or here.
As near as I can tell, he was charged with criminal activities for not filing/paying (both? or which one?) his duly-owed income taxes. It’s been a […]

What the
Hell
Is
Going
On
Here?

WHIGO? That’s the question. One place you can look for answers is http://www.prouty.org/ - a website dedicated to Fletcher Prouty, a man who came into a certain amount of prominence following the JFK murder, when he did some whistle-blowing… well, if not actual whistle-blowing, then at least the kind of nervous whistling you might […]

I am not one of those people (see? “those”, not “these”… is the unconscious truthful, or what???) who “visualize” easily, clearly, or even very well at all.
I know (okay, I don’t “know”, but I “hear”, or “read”) that there are people who can summon up images at will of faces, places, things… but I am […]

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