MG - Corr Tells Margaret A Little About The Broken Archons

"The Broken Archons tried to steal tomorrow while the Princes slept,“ Corr told her as the ancient rail car clacked and shuddered through the dark. ”They wanted to study it, take it apart, understand its configuration and find a way to re-splice themselves back into the base code of reality. “It was the Metro Gnome who sounded the alarm. His sensitivity to the vectors and patterns of the world keyed him in as the first hints of temporal dissonance radiated out from their efforts. He threw open a channel to every king, count, and majordomo connected by him, and his shriek of pained confusion brought the Archons down almost before they'd breached the Linear Escarpment."

"So, what happened to them?" Maggie asked.

"They were rounded up, neutered to destroy any remaining access they had to the creative force, and stuck into the deep holes of the world to be forgotten. Their names have been marked anathema into the Quiddity Sphere, and I honestly don't think even they remember them anymore."

Drifting

Touching the sky, breathing, moving against the feral intent of gravity. Air and hubris, buoyant animation, pushing and pulling and pressing me to the blue. There are aspects of hope and hate here, of diamonds and soot and the confusing odor of cabbage.

Brown Shirts Unite!

“Last week, a protester hanged an effigy of Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., Democrat of Maryland, at a rally opposing health care change. This week, Representative Brad Miller, Democrat of North Carolina, said he had received a death threat about his support.” - Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings by Ian Urbina

Fascism, historically, is a conservative, backwards looking world view that eschews dialogue, preferring a more force oriented means to ends methodology.

As relates to the linked article this begs the question: which group is really acting like Nazis?

The Brownian Motion of Tadpoles

The Narrow Mouth Toad does have a fairly small mouth, but is not in fact a toad.  Small and terribly shy, they come out in the rain to mate sounding like a flock of ailing lambs calling desperately for their mothers.  Tracking the furtive, imperfect bleats to their source can be impossible at times, but that just increases the joy of actually finding one.

Fill My Heart With Dreadful Wisdom

Video of Dear Noam at the historic Riverside Church introduced by the wonderful Amy Goodman. This is why the web is, at least this morning. American Power and the New Mandarins - 40th Anniversary Talk

Was The World Always This Strange

Dragon flies, perched like alien sentinels atop flowering water plants, doing fragile battle with insistent, curious humming birds just outside the dining room window. Like a re-enactment from some odd fairy tale my mother forgot to tell me as a child, I am in wonder at what the rest of the day holds.

The Best Justice Money Can Buy

“The Justice Department said a 1976 law on sovereign immunity protected the Saudis from liability and noted that “potentially significant foreign relations consequences” would arise if such suits were allowed to proceed.“ - Eric Lichtblau, Documents Back Saudi Link to Extremists

Odd how we have this 1976 law which provides protection from legal action in the face of presentable if sometimes tenuous evidence, but there seems to have been no law against fabricating information in order to invade Iraq.

I also note the mention on yesterdays Democracy Now! that the Supreme Court has chosen not to hear Valerie Plame’s case against the Bush administration for illegally outing her as an undercover CIA agent.

I need to find out where the Texas Mafia gets those wonderful teflon suits.

A Question I've Been Asking Myself For A While

“Did the American people really fill the White House and both chambers of Congress with Democrats in order to placate Republicans?” - From truthdig intro to an AP article on Yahoo, Health Care Fail

Plotting

More On Bair The Bear From The NY Times

At a public meeting three weeks ago, John C. Dugan, the comptroller of the currency, blasted a proposal to impose stiff new insurance fees on banks as unfair to the largest banks, which he regulates. The financial crisis stemmed in part from problems at small banks, he insisted. Sheila C. Bair, chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the regulator for many smaller, community banks, could barely hide her contempt. The large banks, she said, had wreaked havoc on the system, only to be bailed out by “hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in government assistance.” She added, “Fairness is always an issue.”

- Stephen Labaton and Edmund L. Andrews, Regulators Feud as Banking System Overhauled