reality that does not conform to paradigm can be forced into the paradigm... up to a point.

Daily Kos: "Human are like rats and cockroaches": the coming feudalism

you can't map an infinite plane onto a Euclidean solid.  

a grimly fascinating diary and comments over at lucifer's orangerie.

i feel we're caught in a hostage flick, and the takers are about to shoot greece, with the excuse that the food's running out, and we didn't grovel before our masters low enough, or send the ransom of our first-born with sufficient alacrity.

more virgins, stat!

the world gazes in zombie sorrow, paralysed by an ignorance too deep to fathom, and cheap microwaved popcorn.

i'm hoping when they toss greece's body in the trash, there will be a spasm of worldwide revulsion at the epically heartless and inane pretzel logic that puts banker profits above the real 'wealth of nations'.

The power of knowledge is in mortal combat with the knowledge of power. It really is that simple... That's the Edenic apple we are all munching on.