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"The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include With ease, and you beside"
-- Emily Dickinson
"We will pursue peace as if there is no terrorism and fight terrorism as if there is no peace."
-- Yitzhak Rabin
"I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport."
-- Barbara Jordan
"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to
trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule --
and both commonly succeed, and are right."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-- William Pitt
"The only completely consistent people are the dead."
-- Aldous Huxley
"I have had my solutions for a long time; but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
-- Karl F. Gauss
"Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire,
the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind;
and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise
the improvements of social life."
-- Edward Gibbon
"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his
expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were
respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."
-- Edward Gibbon
"There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify
the evils, of the present times."
-- Edward Gibbon
"Our youth now loves luxuries. They have bad manners, contempt for authority.
They show disrespect for elders and they
love to chatter instead of exercise.
Children are now tyrants, not the servants, of their households. They
no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize
their teachers."
-- Socrates
"Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments."
-- Sidney Hook
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
-- Sidney Hook
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect
disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about particular degrees of interest
and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimized."
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
"Faced with the choice of all the land without a Jewish state or a Jewish state without all the
land, we chose a Jewish state without all the land."
-- David Ben-Gurion
"...the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him
an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this
or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages
to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right; that it tends also
to corrupt the principles of that very religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing,
with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess
and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminals who do not withstand such
temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that the
opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction;
that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion
and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their
ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty,
because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of
judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square
with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil
government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts
against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if
left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has
nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her
natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is
permitted freely to contradict them.
-- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, Thomas Jefferson
"We don't live just by ideas. Ideas are part of the mixture of customs and practices,
intuitions and instincts that make human life a conscious activity susceptible to
improvement or debasement. A radical idea may be healthy as a provocation;
a temperate idea may be stultifying. It depends on the circumstances. One of the most
tiresome arguments against ideas is that their "tendency" is to some dire condition --
to totalitarianism, or to moral relativism, or to a war of all against all."
-- Louis Menand
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
-- Dante Alighieri
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
-- Henry B. Adams
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the
poor to beg in the streets, steal bread, or sleep under a bridge."
-- Anatole France
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
-- Edmund Burke
"Education does not mean that we have become certified experts in business or mining or botany or journalism or epistemology;
it means that through the absorption of the moral, intellectual, and esthetic inheritance of the race we have come to
understand and control ourselves as well as the external world; that we have chosen the best as our associates both in spirit
and the flesh; that we have learned to add courtesy to culture, wisdom to knowledge, and forgiveness to understanding."
-- Will Durant
"Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is
but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest
winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?"
-- Herman Melville
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
-- Louis D. Brandeis
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."
-- Louis D. Brandeis
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
-- Louis D. Brandeis
"It is an error to suppose that books have no influence; it is a slow influence, like flowing water carving out a canyon,
but it tells more and more with every year; and no one can pass an hour a day in the society of sages and heroes without
being lifted up a notch or two by the company he has kept."
-- Will Durant
"When you write, you’re trying to transpose what you’re thinking into something that is less like an annoying drone and more like a piece of music."
-- Louis Menand
"Sex is a continuum."
-- Gore Vidal
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, 1802.
"The sum of our religion is peace and unanimity, but these can scarcely stand unless we define as little as possible,
and in many things leave one free to follow his own judgment, because there is great obscurity in many matters, and
man suffers from this almost congenital disease that he will not give in when once a controversy is started, and
after he is heated he regards as absolutely true that which he began to sponsor quite casually...."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
"Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule of what we are to read, and what we must disbelieve?"
-- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to N. G. Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller, 1814
"We are told that it is only people's objective actions that matter, and their subjective feelings are of no importance. Thus pacifists, by obstructing the war effort,
are 'objectively' aiding the Nazis; and therefore the fact that they may be personally hostile to Fascism is irrelevant. I have been guilty of saying this myself more than once. The same argument is applied to Trotskyism. Trotskyists are often credited, at any rate by Communists, with being active and conscious agents of Hitler; but when you point out the many and obvious reasons why this is unlikely to be true,
the 'objectively' line of talk is brought forward again. To criticize the Soviet Union helps Hitler: therefore 'Trotskyism is Fascism'. And when this has been established, the accusation of conscious treachery is usually repeated.
This is not only dishonest; it also carries a severe penalty with it. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions."
-- George Orwell, "As I Please," Tribune, 8 December 1944
"Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? If 'needy' were a turn-on?"
-- "Aaron Altman," Broadcast News
"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
-- Lewis Thomas
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"
-- Cicero
"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
"Remember, Robin: evil is a pretty bad thing."
-- Batman
"Being evil is not a full-time job."
-- James Lileks
Gary Farber is now a licensed Double Super-Secret Master Pundit.
He does not always refer to himself in the third person.
Did he mention he was presently single?
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Farber's First Fundamental of Blogging:
If your idea of making an insightful point is to make fun of people's
names, or refer to them by rilly clever labels such as "The Big Me" or "The Shrub,"
chances are high that I'm not reading your blog. The same applies if you refer
to a group of people by disparaging terms such as "the Donks" or "the pals." (Note: I have to say I don't give that much of a damn any more.)
Farber's Second Fundamental of Blogging:
The more interested you are in scoring a "point" for a political "team," a "side," than in exploring the validity or value of an idea, the less interested I am in what you're saying.
(Note: Partially suspended for the Duration.)
Farber's Third Fundamental of Blogging:
If you see a link on another blog, and use it, credit the blog.
Some places I go:
[weblogs, sites, and columns]
People I've known and still miss include Isaac Asimov, rich brown, Charles Burbee, F. M. "Buzz" Busby, Terry Carr, A. Vincent Clarke, George Alec Effinger,
Bill & Sherry Fesselmeyer, George Flynn, John Milo "Mike" Ford. John Foyster, Jay Haldeman, Chuch Harris, Mike Hinge, Lee Hoffman, Terry Hughes, Damon Knight, Ross Pavlac, Bruce Pelz, Elmer Perdue, Tom Perry,
Larry Propp, Bill Rotsler, Art Saha, Bob Shaw, Martin Smith, Harry Stubbs, Bob Tucker, Reed Waller, Harry Warner, Jr., Jack Williamson, Walter A. Willis, Susan Wood, Kate Worley, and Roger Zelazny.
It's just a start.
And She of whom I must write someday.
You Like Me, You Really Like Me
...Darn: I saw that Gary had commented on this thread, and thought: oh. my. god. Perfect storm. Unstoppable cannonball, immovable object.
-- Hilzoy
Guessing that Gary is ignorant of anything that has ever been written down is, in my experience, unwise.
Just saying.
-- Hilzoy
Where would the blogosphere be without the Guardian? Guardian fish-barreling is now a venerable tradition. Yet even within this tradition, I don't believe there has ever been a more extensive and thorough essay than this one, from Gary Farber's fine blog. Gary appears to have examined every single thing that Guardian/Observer columnist Mary Ridell has ever written. He ties it all together, reaches inevitable conclusion. An archive can be a weapon.
-- Dr. Frank
Isn't Gary a cracking blogger, apropos of nothing in particular?
-- Alison Scott
I usually read you and Patrick several times a day, and I always get something from them. You've got great links, intellectually honest commentary, and a sense of humor. What's not to like?
-- Ted Barlow
...writer[s] I find myself checking out repeatedly when I'm in the mood to play follow-the-links. They're not all people I agree with all the time, or even most of the time, but I've found them all to be thoughtful writers, and that's the important thing, or should be.
-- Tom Tomorrow
Amygdala - So much stuff it reminds Unqualified Offerings that UO sometimes thinks of Gary Farber as "the liberal Instapundit." -- Jim Henley
I look at it almost every day. I can't follow all the links, but I read most of your pieces. The blog format really seems to suit you. It also suits me; I am not a news junkie, so having smart people like you ferret out the interesting stuff and leave it where I can find it is wonderful.
-- Lydia Nickerson
Gary is certainly a non-idiotarian 'liberal'...
-- Perry deHaviland
...the thoughtful and highly intelligent Gary Farber... My first reaction was that I definitely need to appease Gary Farber of Amygdala, one of the geniuses of our age.
-- Brad deLong
My friend Gary Farber at Amygdala is the sort of liberal for whom I happily give three cheers. [...] Damned incisive blogging....
-- Midwest Conservative Journal
If I ever start a paper, Clueless writes the foreign affairs column, Layne handles the city beat, Welch has the roving-reporter job, Tom Tomorrow runs the comic section (which carries Treacher, of course). MediaMinded runs the slots - that's the type of editor I want as the last line of defense. InstantMan runs the edit page - and you can forget about your Ivins and Wills and Friedmans and Teepens on the edit page - it's all Blair, VodkaP, C. Johnson, Aspara, Farber, Galt, and a dozen other worthies, with Justin 'I am smoking in such a provocative fashion' Raimondo tossed in for balance and comic relief.
Who wouldn't buy that paper? Who wouldn't want to read it? Who wouldn't climb over their mother to be in it?
-- James Lileks
Gary is a perceptive, intelligent, nice guy. Some of the stuff he comes up with is insightful, witty, and stimulating. And sometimes he manages to make me groan.
-- Charlie Stross
One of my issues with many poli-blogs is the dickhead tone so many bloggers affect to express their sense of righteous indignation. Gary Farber's thoughtful leftie takes on the world stand in sharp contrast with the usual rhetorical bullying. Plus, he likes "Pogo," which clearly attests to his unassaultable good taste.
-- oakhaus.com
Gary Farber is a principled liberal....
-- Bill Quick, The Daily Pundit
I read Amygdala...with regularity, as do all sensible websurfers.
-- Jim Henley, Unqualified Offerings
Okay, he is annoying, but he still posts a lot of good stuff.
-- Avedon Carol, The Sideshow
The only trouble with reading Amygdala is that it makes me feel like such a slacker. That Man Farber's a linking, posting, commenting machine, I tell you!
-- John Robinson, Sore Eyes
Jaysus. I saw him do something like this before, on a thread about Israel. It was pretty brutal. It's like watching one of those old WWF wrestlers grab an opponent's
face and grind away until the guy starts crying. I mean that in a nice & admiring way, you know.
-- Fontana Labs, Unfogged
We read you Gary Farber! We read you all the time! Its just that we are lazy with our blogroll. We are so very very lazy. We are always the last ones to the party but we always have snazzy bow ties.
-- Fafnir, Fafblog!
Gary Farber you are a genius of mad scientist proportions. I will bet there are like huge brains growin in jars all over your house.
-- Fafnir, Fafblog!
Gary Farber is the hardest working man in show blog business. He's like a young Gene Hackman blogging with his hair on fire, or something.
-- Belle Waring, John & Belle Have A Blog
I bow before the shrillitudinousness of Gary Farber, who has been blogging like a fiend.
-- Ted Barlow, Crooked Timber
Gary Farber only has two blogging modes: not at all, and 20 billion interesting posts a day [...] someone on the interweb whose opinions I can trust....
-- Belle Waring, John & Belle Have A Blog
Gary Farber! Jeez, the guy is practically a blogging legend, and I'm always surprised at the breadth of what he writes about.
-- PZ Meyers, Pharyngula
Gary Farber takes me to task, in a way befitting the gentleman he is.
-- Stephen Green, Vodkapundit
I'VE BEEN THROUGH IDAHO A BUNCH OF TIMES and enjoyed it, especially after Montana went on long after it had finished making its point, gorgeous as some of its spots are. I'll stand up for the people there, even if I am uneasy at the lack of ethnic diversity there as I am, as a Brooklyn kid, as I am at that of a few western states.
I've thought a lot about the ethnic history in this state, Colorado, I've just found myself in, and noticed that much of it is ugly, and that I've a lot more to catch up on. Riding the bus here is not the same as riding the bus in Brooklyn, my native land. Or even Queens and the rest of the city. There are many other ethnically diverse cities in the US, by nature and definition, and thank Roscoe, but I expect there is a considerable difference between those locales, and those that are more homogenous.
METANARRATIVE ON GORE: This December Rolling Stone piece isn't as well-detailed as some other accounts of the amazing snow job most of the press pulled on Al Gore before I was blogging, but it's worth a note. As I alluded earlier, if you voted against, or dislike, Gore for his policy and political stands, fine, that's your right, and we can discuss those in specific at leisure. I'm just bothered by the job the press did on telling lies about Gore, and the number of people who uncritically bought them, just as, say, lots of people believed Ronald Reagan was a completely vague idiot who couldn't possibly have any serious ideas of his own (and who haven't read the notes for his radio speeches).
There are infinite reasons to dislike, distrust, or disagree with, a specific politician, but the Republic is best served when those opinions are based on actual facts rather than wild and inane distortions reproduced endlessly in an echo chamber, and the fact is that this happens to politiicans of both major parties, due to an endlessly lazy professional press class.
The Arab Street will rise in flames. The "street" in any given Arab country consists of 278 state-sanctioned mullahs already preaching death to the Americans and the Jews, five state-controlled newspaper opinion columnists preaching ditto, 577,000 state security officers making sure nobody says anything to the contrary and 73 million people who would very much like to be living in New Jersey. In Kabul, they cheered and kissed our soldiers. In Baghdad, they'd love to have the chance.
INNOVATION: FROM COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS? Microsoft said (in an ad in the Wall Street Journal) that a country's true innovators are its companies. This page disagrees, asserts that it is individuals, and tells the story of Edwin Howard Armstrong, who invented FM radio, significant aspects of AM radio, and died a suicide over his patent fights. I never knew before why US televisions don't have a Channel 1.
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ORIENTALISM REVISITED. You probably read this critique of the philosophical children of Edward Said's ground-breaking Orientalism, written by Charles Paul Freund, as it was published in December, stimulated by Said's post-September 11th comments. But it's new to me, and fascinating, so I mention it to anyone else who might find it of interest, and who is as behind as I.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, reply to a European friend unfamiliar with NG: What shocked me is that NG was always a lovely magazine about local anthropology, sociology, geology, and the like; everything from amazing photos of volcanos to exotic cultures from Silicon Valley to obscure South American tribes. But now it's largely non-stop stasis stuff. (See Virginia Postrel for explanation of latter.) Most of all, it used to have no more place in the political dialogue than a tree. Now it's more or less explaining with every paragraph the political significance of a tree.
This is a change. Given its base, I think it's likely a politically significant change, and I'm very belatedly, years after the fact, noting it.
SPOILED BRATS: here's one. I know there is is still a decent evironmental protection movement out there, but this shithead isn't part of it, and is a part of an appalling outgrowth.
On other fronts, I've recently read some issues of National Geographic for the first time in well over a decade, and been almost as appalled at how politicized, in an idiotic way, it has become. I always, as a kid and later, like everyone, valued the maps, local insight, facts, and, of course, the pretty pictures.
We always joked about how the NA continent is balanced, and prevented from tipping into the ocean, by the weight of National Geographic issues in people's basements on either coast, which, of course, means that North America slides into the Atlantic.
National Geographic's become, I've just belatedly discovered, an extraordinary outlet of propaganda. I may agree with many of the issues at hand, but, migod, they're jamming overt poliitical agitation into every other paragraph. Even when I agree with it, which is the vast majority of the time, I'm shocked at how much the Society editorital staff is stacking the deck, via editorial decisions in the Magazine, in the recent issues I've read.
Environmentalism, in my world, involves making scientifically balanced judgements that weigh alternatives against each other, not simple-minded assumptions that "'nature' as we find it this day is inviolable" or "industy is inherently evil." When did the NGS hire 12-year-old editorial staff? More to come eventually.
INFINITE MATRIX:Yipes. Somehow I'd not plugged this before. Pray take notice. (And then didn't notice, after being offline for two and a half days, that the link was broken; apologies.)
Check out Terry Bisson's daily future "this day in history," Bruce Sterling's weblog, spiffy fiction, a John Clute review, and a kind of mini-Ansible from Dave Langford, among other goodies.
A three-hour epic about elves, dwarfs, wizards and small, hairy-footed hobbits that is only the first chapter in a fantasy trilogy dominated the 74th annual Academy Award nominations this morning, coming away with 13 of them.
Among the nominations for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" were ones for best picture, best director (Peter Jackson), best musical score (Howard Shore), best cinematography (Andrew Lesnie) and best supporting actor (Ian McKellen). The film, released in mid-December, has also been a huge box-office success, with more than $270 million at the domestic box office.
Gosford Park took seven nominations, including Robert Altman's fifth; whatever will Oliver North think?
The Pakistani authorities today arrested an Islamic militant who had been the main suspect in the kidnapping of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, and said he told them that Mr. Pearl was still alive.
The suspect, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore and then taken to Karachi for further questioning. The authorities declined to give further details, but they said that Mr. Sheikh's account might be true, and that Mr. Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, might soon be free.
[...]
The Pakistani intelligence agents detained in the case were retired officials who had close ties with members of the anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan during the 1980's, including Osama bin Laden.
Their links to Mr. Sheikh have not been explained by Pakistani officials, who have noted only that the suspect was part of a network of militants who had allies among the main intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
...In reality, there hasn't been an Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon since 1984 – Mr Peres is just 18 years late with his facts. As for the missiles, the Hizbollah would like to know where they are.
So why is Lebanon being set up in this way?
[...]
Still the Israelis claim that Iran or Mr bin Laden or Syria are turning Lebanon into a "terror-centre" or – this from Mr Peres again -- a "powder keg".
The reality is quite different. The border hasn't been so quiet in 25 years. Save for a brief attack at Shebaa farms, a terrain of abandoned fields belonging to Lebanon but occupied by Israel since 1967 (the UN says its fate should be decided at a peace conference and puts it on Israel's side of the Blue Line) the only action has been in the air.
Forever since Israel restarted its reconnaissance flights over Lebanon – clear violations of the Blue Line agreement, according to the UN – the Hizbollah have taken to blasting 57mm anti-aircraft rounds into the air over the Israeli border.
Each time a contrail whispers up the pale blue skies towards Beirut, the Hizbollah bang away with their old gun above Kiryat Shmona. They have sent some splinters into the gardens of a kibbutz but it's the sound that is meant to impress. The 57mm rounds, fired from a relic of Stalingrad vintage, explode with a powerful detonation. If Israel's pilots want to rattle the windows of Beirut with their sonic booms, the Hizbollah are saying, then Israel's citizens can endure a few noisy explosions in the sky.
I invite Robert Fisk to find a garden of such a kibbutz, and stand in it, to peacefully enjoy the experience of catching such harmless "splinters." Apparently he's spent such a long time in the Arab world that he has caught that curious disease of believing that if you fire a weapon vertically, your projectile achieves escape velocity, and never falls to earth, and if it somehow should, it is harmless and naught to be concerned with.
General Gaby Ashkenazi was enjoying his Israeli Northern Command's annual dinner when the first reports came in of "three loud explosions" over Kiryat Shmona. Some Israeli children were sent into shelters. The Hizbollah were accused of breaching the Blue Line agreement with their airbursts – it was indeed a violation, just like the Israeli overflights – but no- one was hurt.
Well, that's all right, then.
It's a dangerous game.
Yes. Just a game. The Hizbollah are such a lovable, kooky, fun-loving bunch. BOOM they like to go with their funny harmless 57mm cannon. What fun.
If just one splinter hits an Israeli, shells will come whiffling back across the border.
Darn those Israelis. No sense of fun. They should fire harmless 57mm "splinters" back.
And Robert Fisk should stand where they fall, too. What a scum bag.
The Dominion of Melchizedek (mal-khay-zed'-ek) is a worldwide ecclesiastical and constitutional state. The Dominion of Melchizedek epitomizes the post-modern state.
Read those official statistics, and keep in mind that
55) Population: [a permanent population]:
In accordance with teachings of the Bible, First Chronicles Chapter 21, the Melchizedek leadership refrains from conducting a census of its people; therefore the actual number of Melchizedekians living on earth today is not available for it is not known. Most of the citizens of DOM are dual citizens living in every major country.
The world is a wonderful place. And so is the Dominion. You must go read about it.
61) Human Rights Platform:
The Dominion of Melchizedek is a transnational nation state established to unite the political representatives, the intellectuals, the professionals, those in business, labor and agriculture, the oppressed, and all freedom-loving and aspiring men and women who share the planet Earth.
GARY'S AFRICAN AID PROGRAM. Like everyone online, I've always received a certain amount of spam, despite use of various ISP filtering programs, sometime use of my filters, and so on. Most is boring, a smattering is amusing; I heard from Miss Cleo for a while, recently, and was utterly shocked that her powers di
