Today is a very important day; One that should be marked on every calendar and recalled in songs from sea to shining sea. Today should be a celebration! And not because of some fictional Artificial Intelligence becoming self-aware in some fictional universe where robots wage war against humans. The war between robots and humans is real and has been happening since the dawn of the industrial age. On this day (April 19th) 1943 Albert Hofmann, a chemist at the Sandoz (now Novartis) laboratories ... read more

The stench is unbearable. Rats and roaches scurry about in the dark, the smell of death lingers in the air so thick and palpable you can taste it. It makes my gut wrench every time I step through the threshold of the door. The place is a pit of doom and despair. The kind of place that is dark even with the lights on. Nothing about this hovel says anything good will ever come out of it. My stomach feels like its pushing its way out of my body. My very intestines want to runaway. The only thing... read more

Into the fire you go
A couple of weeks ago I went to the Folsom Street Fair here in San Francisco (where I live). Before hand I had been regaled with tales of hedonistic revelry and general ribald homosexual acts that were beyond comparison. My girlfriend had gone last year while I was stuck in Atlanta, and she couldn’t stop going on about how awesome and utterly filthy it is. Throngs of depraved souls like our own commit the most profane and heinous acts known to man in broad daylight in ... read more

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I am not an atheist; I do believe God is real. I have never been particularly religious, at least not an adherent to monotheistic forms of demagoguery that permeates the culture today. My god has always been rather different from the wise old beard in the sky judging mankind. I would never knell before a man that I can see and I will never knell before an invention of man I cannot see. My interpretation of the divine is more like some hippie pagan or early Gnostic Christian for that matter. I... read more