I have been posting a lot of old material.  Partly because I need to get it back on the site.  Partly because I need stop-gap posts.  I am busy to the point of frantic.  If you don’t work in “this field”, you probably wouldn’t understand. In my off time, I struggle...

1st Order Desire – A simple desire.  The desire for food, comfort, and sex. 2nd Order Desire – A desire about a desire: I desire not to desire food so much, because it will make me fat.  I desire not to desire sex so much, because I will catch VD.  Etc. It was just after dawn....

They arrive every week.  They are stupid and scared, eyes wide and so poorly trained they can barely tell the difference between the position of Parade Rest and the position of Attention.  They wouldn’t know which of the two to stand at if one of my squad leaders didn’t remind...

I have little sympathy for Buddhists.  I warm myself by their personal conflagrations.  I have no sympathy at all for Vegans.  Those arrogant fuckers will all die when the Collapse comes. It won’t be because their nutritional self-restriction is unsustainable.  It will come when they...