Xenu’s Paradox: The Fiction of L. Ron Hubbard and the Making of Scientology
A good one, courtesy of Longreads, the fiction and biography of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.
Link: https://longreads.com/2017/02/01/xenus-paradox-the-fiction-of-l-ron-hubbard/
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Chopping Wood
Chopping Wood. Finer and finer, splintering into smithereens, she's complained, I'm merely stacking it, it needs to be chopped, chopped more, further, splintered into shivering kindling...
I oblige. I disagree, wood burns better as logs, the bigger the log, the longer it burns, but this is philosophy. Her preference is for the kindled log.
I try to get ahead, chop more wood, free up a morning or day to just laze in or attend other things, but the more I chop, the more they burn.
I do what meager woofing I can. And it is meager, I'm lazy, demotivated, I have an abundance of other things on my mind which aren't getting done. I'd rather be paying rent and living alone than living with the generous flexibility of "do what you can..." Because I can always do more. I can do great things...but I am here, in the woodshed of the Kootenays, I don't belong here, I am waiting my summons to greatness, I make my notes, work - sporadically, on my projects, meet her friends, her boyriend-not-boyfriend, friend, just friend, he seems a good guy. An equally dark sense of humour. Funny, flirtatious, (uh-oh, she knows), bright (enough), we get along.
Time passes.
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Civil War, Continuing
Customs and Border Patrol Agents willfully ignore a Federal Judges ruling allowing documented immigrants access to the US.
"Merely following orders". Of course this is longstanding alibi of police and those in positions prone to abuse, the US is edging closer to civil war, and all those Border and Patrol agents ignoring the ruling - Constitutional - should face severe punishment and even imprisonment. They know the Constitution. Following Trump's directive is BS. As is following orders. They have new orders, and are following those that most parallel their views of a Totalitarian Gestapo State. That's the Police for ya...
Links:
- ...via Boingboing: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/federal-judge-orders-emergency.html
- ...the Judges Order: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3440921/031125162233.pdf
- && https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3440921/031125162233.pdf
- & the Customs Agents: https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/156688715869/imperatorkhaleesi-shinelikethunder
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