i've spent my entire life INFORMING (and even empowering) people about energy issues. i could even be considered a sort-of new age humanist, or at least an inveterate hippie. i abhor violence, and turn the other cheek, even when there's been a machine gun pointed at my head. i have seldom killed cabbies who's views differed from mine, mostly because i didn't want their blood on my dearly purchased suits. i have rarely cemented deals by signifying that "either your signature or your brain will be on that contract."
btw, my comments about grid failure are not really what i'd like to see, only what i know is already coming (because i have such detailed insider info on the current situation), so sometimes, in the Netz world, on an Open Thread where riffing is allowed, i riff.
Me born in Chicago, poemless. Watch out for my connected friends (not counting that i convinced my parents to leave the city when i was just over a year old.) If you keep writing good shit about Russia and exile, we might let you live.
(Where exactly does the smiley go here?) "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
And you can make all the mafia jokes you want, but I am in the Teamsters and my dad is Sicilian and I know people who've been killed by mafia, so you're probably talking to the wrong person if you are trying to impress. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
