I suppose I can't really call this an article... It is however a genuine response that I posted on one of the threads of the Guardian's 'comment is free' section. ( Link ). I post it here in hopes of encouraging you to explore the site at the Guardian, partly because it's a pretty good site in itself, partly to publicize the ongoing campaign of vitriolic ignorance, poisonous prejudice, and egregious arrogance directed at America by our 'friends' in Europe (in the hope that others beside mys...

I return from the wastelands of the non-JU universe... no doubt to universal applause and rapturous outpourings of spontaneous luuuuuuuuuuuurve, baby. Or maybe not. Before I left I thought I wouldn't really miss this obscure corner of reality - and yet I did. Even though I found a new audience to torment over at the Guardian's 'comment is free' site ( Link ) where, as the Bald Avenger, I thrash the omnipresent hordes of Eurodweebs and their pissant sympathisers from around the globe w...

"I'm curious, LW. What would you say to people that consider this a co-depenant mental problem? You know that some would say that you just happened to hook up with someone who has a complimentary emotional flaw, right? Granted, many also call homosexuality a mental or emotional problem. Do you see it as the same kind of thing? Do you think it is just something you are, irrespective of your experiences and mental adjustment, or something that came from how you were treated earlier in life?"...

How many different sorts of suffering are there in the world? And how many of them are innocent? I've no doubt there are many, and that asking how many forms can be described as innocent is akin to asking how many angels can dance on the point of a pin - not head, as is usually stated. A mathematical answer has been worked out ( Link ) but mathematics has no soul and can't be thought of theologically. So be damned to it. Participatory, sacrificial pain interests me. And the best, the ...

I didn't know Schatze for long, just the little over two years that I've been here, when she was long past her glory days. I knew a very grand old lady, full of character, a dog whose favorite creature in all the world was a man - almost any man. She was a floozy, and something of a petting-tart, happily sitting at the feet of anyone who would pet her for as long as they were willing to do it, especially if that someone was male. But in these last weeks she spent more and more time with me...

Eze 16:48 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good]. The destruction of ...

I'm an immigrant. I'll never be an American in the way that someone born, raised, educated here is an American. That's OK. There are pubs in Britain I know where you can have lived in the same locality for twenty years and you'll never be a 'local'. It seems to me that immigrants to a country have a perspective that the native-born will never, can never, possess. It may not be a more accurate perspective. It may not be a more detailed or comprehensive perspective. But it must, of necessit...

Happy birthday, America. And thank you.

I make no claims for this article beforehand. I don't claim that it's coherent or consistent, or that it's particularly well thought out. Given the chaotic nature of my thoughts on love, there's no reason why it should have any of the above-mentioned qualities. C'est la vie c'est la guerre. What is love? How do you love others? Can you, and should you if you can, love yourself? We say we love many things. We love our cars, our wives/husbands/children. We love our pets and our jobs. we s...

After fourteen days of unemployment I'm working again. Whereas I recently worked for D now I work for T. T is a large civil engineering company here in Richmond - the office I work in downtown is less than twelve minutes away on a route that has little traffic. I liked the office as soon as I got into it on Wednesday, when I attended the interview. It occupies three floors in a very large historic building downtown - but without being a part of the business area. The area the building occ...