Relationships, right, people? I mean, what more is there to say? So onerous are relationships that the popular social network Facebook includes “it’s complicated” among users relationships statuses. Fucked up, I know. OK, so we all know relationships are complicated, and we’re at least a little bit familiar with the everyday, run-of-the-mill complications. However, the [...]
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website for his research into [...]
Run-on sentences and Marlboro men
This is from a sort-of joke email I wrote to a co-worker about another co-worker—a very mysterious engineer who looks and sounds like he’s lived 100 lives already. I wish he and I were friends… I love Steve’s coat. I wish that Steve would be my friend and we could drink Jack Daniel’s together and talk [...]