It seems to me to be a general principle that if somebody appears as a great religious leader, and says to us that we should do such-and-such in order to tear apart society as it is and remake it in a better way, then after this leader has died a great religion will spring up, bearing his name and claiming to carry on his teachings, and it will solemnly instruct us that it is a sacred obligation on all of us to preserve society exactly as it is and has always been, and that in particular doing such-and-such is one of the greatest of sins.

The Phoenix Islands comprise eight islands in the central Pacific north of Samoa. What happened in the Phoenix Islands on December 31, 1994?

If we didn’t have people to hate, how would we know who we are?

Given the very limited space available on the Internet, I figure that every blog I find boring is taking up space and preventing some blog that I am interested in from existing. And there just isn’t enough interesting material to read on the Internet every day to fill my time.

At least, those seem to be the implicit assumptions behind this otherwise incomprehensible rant.

Missing baby found in Sandwich

When I click on the link to the page, I’m told that before I can access it, I need to log in to my account. (That has never happened before, and I’ve been accessing these pages several times a week for years.)

When I try to log in to my account, I’m told that the password I used is not valid. Have I forgotten my password? I can enter my email address and my password will be emailed to me.

When I try to have my password emailed to me, I’m told that no account exists for my email address.

When I try to register a new account with that email address, I’m told that I can’t because an account already exists for that email address.

From a recent issue of USA Today:

Violent crimes such as armed robbery occur more frequently at small hotel properties near highways or in high-crime neighborhoods, says Norman Bates, a security consultant and former security director at three Boston hotels.

Box of crackers I just bought boasts that the crackers are “made with multigrains”.

A corollary to Godwin’s Law would seem to be that as the blatant clarity of a parallel between some aspect of current events and Nazi Germany increases without bound, the probability that if a person happens to make the entirely obvious and relevant comparison, someone else will immediately scoff at it with a reference to Godwin’s Law, does not budge even infinitesimally from 1.00.

Who is a parasite and who is a host usually seems to depend more than anything on the size of the observer.