DeeDee told us that Faiza had decided not to speak, and had left. "I think it was the music that did it," she said. "I think she felt it was the kind of music that the American soldiers in Iraq listen to in their tanks."


"...a patriot of a future age: an age of Gaia." --Th* 3nds of th* 3arth


"Even madmen had a regiment, the deli, or loons, Riskers of their Souls, who were used, since they did not object, as human battering rams, or human bridges..." --Jason Goodwin, Lords of th* Horizons (1998)


   "Soliloquy on the New Ten

Their bills turned browner as their hearts grew blacker,
Reality more buried under lacquer;
  The polar caps melted
  While amateurs belted
Out anthems of Reagan and Thacker."

--Victor V*rmis


"...I would estimate that of every ten units of energy (or money) expended preparing for Peak Oil today, nine are spent preparing for war while only one is spent building lifeboats and teaching people how to survive."


Ixar*tt*.