U Got That

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Sometimes the current

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Is with you, and sometimes against;



Who keeps changing it?





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It's a small world after all

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It's true.

It's factual.

I got it from the Smithsonian:



She is to be appointed by the President as the next director of the Secret Service.

She'll become the first woman to hold that post.

How cool is that?

It dates back to 1865, you know—the Secret Service:



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Defy Gravity!

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Don't make me get the flying monkeys...




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This explains it

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Amazing Skill

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Kids nowadays... Such cynicism!

I wonder why?



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A Matter of Perspective

Gee Whiz, Gem, I never thought of him in that way before.



But now that you mention it...

The resemblance is uncanny.



Especially from that angle.

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"All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free."

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Hmm… no, I don't think that was it, sir---they'd heard you correctly the first time around...



Think nothing of it; they are not laughing at you---why, a man of the gentleman's standing, whose works and ideas influenced so many important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions…no one would ever dare---they are laughing with you, sir!

There is no harm in it; we all have said silly stupid things about something or another in our lifetime. Besides...a man of your wit, sir...they'll think you were cracking a joke.


Philippe Katerine - Liberté, mon cul. Egalité, mon cul. Fraternité, mon cul.

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After sharing a couple of beers with Pope Benedict XVI, director James Cameron sees error of his ways

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"Avatar Urbi et Orbi," a new revised version of James Cameron's "Avatar," under the direction of Rev. Ferderico Lombardi, more in tune with Vatican's values, is in the making.


We had it from good authority already that James Cameron had decided to scrap the movie as it is right now and start over:



Speculations still abound as to whom the role of Corporal Jack Sully might be handed to.


Chuck Sully?
Anyone's guess is as good as mine.
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Making Wednesday just a wee bit brighter

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The Tao Te Ching of Darth Sidious

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It reads like Milton Friedman, or Murray Rothbard, or is that L Ron Hubbard?---I never could tell them apart:

The Philosophy of the Sith (it has different names depending on the place or the times) has always been the same: it speaks of passion and freedom but it treats Man like a machine, and the instruments of its ontology are the tools of bondage and deceit. It is cold, mechanical, calculating, and...soulless.

The two samples below made it all the way here from Sith Sigma, a galaxy...too close to home. The site is actually quite edifying. It is cleverly assembled and the spirit in which it happens to be presented does invite comparison with THE PRINCE: like Machiavelli’s best-known book the site exposits and describes the arts with which a Sith Lord or a ruling Corporate Prince can best maintain control of his realm:




In truth, such philosophies have nothing to do with the Tao Te Ching. Though don't be too quick to judge. There are some Sith Lords, like Murray Rothbard, who have been contending that "the first libertarian intellectual was Lao-tzu."

But who, in their right mind, would nowadays still take Murray Rothbard seriously?

There is no telling!

There are those who are looking at China as a Libertarian wet dream and the new promised land of unregulated "economic freedom":

China has a fast growing economy and that doesn’t happen with command style economics. China has a free market (sometimes). I had been told that Beijing recently got rid of rent control, something that New York and Los Angeles wouldn’t even consider. The government is letting some people (those with money) get visa’s and see the rest of the world. They aren’t as afraid that people will leave. This country is more than an economic power; it is a country people want to live in.
---Brad Hemak, A Libertarian in China, 2005

Could Robert Fogel's economic forecast be right?


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It could happen to you!

As a matter of fact, it might already have, and you too may have recently been tagged to be one of the Wulfshead's infamous Substitute Bartenders.

If so, do not panic. Act upon the invitation or ignore it, as you will. Become one of the Wulfshead's acting bartenders, or not. The choice is yours.

No need to feel embarrassed: no one has to know who the Substitute Bartender happens to be at any given point---unless you want them to.

And remember you can always do onto other as was done onto you: feel free to pass the invitation along to one of your fellow patrons.
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Bar essentials

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Bare essentials

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
---Albert Camus

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The Strange Little Fellow by the Fireside

I see... That would explain a lot. Like that strange little fellow by the fireside:


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Sexy Cyborgs from another dimension?

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I mean, I don't know this for a fact, but it would help explain BV's ongoing fantasies preoccupation with the waitress and the washroom attendant and whatnot.


A word to the wise: the way I heard it, those sexy cyborgs are not all what they're cracked-up to be...



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New Model: follow-up

The way the management looks at it, what patrons and visitors do outside of the Wulfshead is their own business. Why, rumor has it that last time Harry Fabulous was in, he was offering pirate DVDs of Muppet films from another dimension: Citizen Kermit and Miss Piggy Does Dallas.

As far as I recall, it is a rare event that The Wulfshead objects to anyone's presence here. Apparently they feel like even some of the most atypical visitors give the place character.

However, while The Wulfshead enforces a strict neutrality, I must caution the gentleman that GENOM corporation is not to be trifled with. They are not known for their tolerance, sir, nor are they very forgiving.

What I am getting at, sir, is... I don't want to alarm the gentleman from Oregon, but the word is out that the gentleman has come into possession of an artifact that belongs to First Androids Synthetics Humanoids.

Don't look at me that way, sir. It's not like the gentleman has been very discreet displaying the synthetic artifact at his table for all to see, and bragging about it.

Oh, the gentleman has nothing to concern himself about, so long as he remains at the bar, and...er...the gentleman keeps away from the restrooms, and other more secluded areas of the Wulfshead. But, as I said before, once the gentleman leaves the Wulfshead, whatever "unpleasantness", the gentleman might run into...is the gentleman's own business.
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A New Model

Given the recent, um... unpleasantness... in the men's room, I thought I'd offer this new model urinal. Guaranteed to confuse terminators. But, ah, be careful when you flush; I'm not sure where the water actually... goes.
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Hold it right there, buster!

Barbie's gotta gun. And she's heard just about enough!


That's right Ms. Savage! Step away from the blender. Gently, now...

No sudden moves. And keep your hands where I can see them.

As for you Doctor . . . Well, you certainly have got a point:

I don't know. Maybe something can be arranged.

What did you have in mind, Doctor?



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Riding to an Unknown Destination in Style

Asking, "How did I get here?"
is usually a question I regret,
so I just take it at face value.
It seems I awoke to this consciousness
rather abruptly in one sense,
but when I think back on the matter,
there are flickers of recognition
that seem to want to make their way
into my perceptual field.

I do not let them.

"It's more fun that way,"
are the words I believe...
at my own peril.

Nonetheless....

That's not a word in my book,
but rather three pasted together
rather haphazardly
(a finer word than this, however, there is not).

"You have a book?" asked Noble.

Ohhh, you bet I do.
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