A warning in advance. This article deals with issues of deviant sex and deviant sexuality and discusses them graphically, with no consideration (other than this warning) given to the more tender sensibilities of some among us. If you're offended or disturbed by such things - read no further. Since I've recently had cause and inspiration (I wish the two always came together so easily, but they rarely do), I've been writing on the topic of Sado-Masochism. I've never really liked the ...

A warning in advance. This article deals with issues of deviant sex and deviant sexuality and discusses them graphically , with no consideration (other than this warning) given to the more tender sensibilities of some among us. If you're offended or disturbed by such things - read no further. Dylan Zimmerman recently wrote an article to whichich I responded a couple of times. Her original article and my responses can be found here. ( Link ) The comment in Ms Z's aricle I wa...

'300', which I saw for the first time last night via On Demand TV, is visually one of the most impressive movies I've seen in a very long time. There is an epic, mythological feel to the imagery that goes a long way toward compensating for deficiencies in dialogue and acting. Not that the dialogue is particularly stiff or wooden (or no more so than in many other action-flicks -Arnie's work springs to mind) but it suffers from the imposition of an alien political message. This message is ...

I recently bought a new game. Buying a new game is a Big Issue for me - because I hate, hate, hate being disappointed by a new game. And I tend to stick close to what I know, for that reason. So generally I buy updates to either the Doom or Quake franchises. I have only two reasons for buying a game at all: 1) it's full of blood, carnage, horror, and graphically realised monstrosities (hence my love for Doom and Quake ). And 2): it has some quality that I find completely absorbing, ...

A disclaimer for the dense: I use the word 'Man' in its general and now much derided sense of humanity generally. The term 'humanity generally' includes the female members of the human race - in other words, in my usage 'Man' includes woman. This is an old way of writing and is no longer considered to be politically correct. I don't care. I don't care if you care. When used in the sense of 'humanity generally' that's how the word 'Man' is to be understood while you read this essay. If you f...

Human Sacrifice is, generally, meant to propitiate the Gods (may they live forever, all the Gods, even those that be dead). As in the movie 'The Wicker Man' (where to my mind the Ritual was misused and misrepresented) types of life, particularly fecund life like rabbits and hares, were gathered up in a wicker framework having the form of a man, and into which a human offering was placed last, the whole then being burnt to ash and the ashes scattered on the land. This was done on the Longest...

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...

It's two days after our latest trip to Norfolk and the Immigration and Naturalization Office there. It's a day after finally being able to renew my driver's license - despite a couple of (to me) heart-stopping moments in which the DMV clerk wandered vacantly away, carrying my passport and its latest endorsement - the one that says I'm legal for another year. Here is an example of the contorted and contracted bureaucratic thinking that, if I dwell on it for any length of time is liable to m...

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...

Today Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, announced that his country has the ability, now, to process uranium on an 'industrial scale'. ( Link ) Ari Larijani, Iranian chief diplomat, claims that there are now 3000 centifuges installed at the Natanz nuclear facility. 3000 centifuges means that in nine months Iran could possess enough highly enriched uranium to create a warhead . Naturally, as the linked article reports, everyone from the US state department to the IAEA is denying ...

Sometime in the late 1980s, after marrying for the first time, I returned to my local vocational college to once again mount an attempt to turn my life around. There had already been radical changes in my life. I had become a Christian. As a consequence of my first conversion I had met the woman who would subsequently become my first wife, married her, and we had set up home together. And as a consequence of marrying into that particular family I had become determined to gain a Degree. Jenny'...

That detestable hypocrite; that self-serving egomaniac; that paragon of ignorant prejudice and prideful ignorance, KFC, JU's permanent godbotherer, has taken it upon herself to delete my comment on one of her threads, just as I knew she would. This is a link to her latest effusion, the vomit of one of the dogs referred to in the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, also known as Revelations. ( Link ) This is the copy of my response to the idiot nonsense this wannabe 'teacher' posted: ...