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Paradise, part six of seven

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

VI. The social butterfly.
A group of women are gathered around a round table. They are drinking tea and eating cake. They are dressed up.
One of the women is telling a story to the others: “–and *he* was wearing his bathrobe, right there at the party! Oh, how funny! And his poor wife was so embarassed [...]

Paradise, part five of seven

Monday, June 8th, 2009

V. The Yogi.
He is sitting on the floor, cross-legged, meditating. His breath is slow, deep, even, and controlled. His body is lean, hard, yet relaxed.
Suddenly his eyes flash open. “Hello,” he says calmly.
“I have studied from all the masters. I know how to breathe correctly. I know how to stand and sit correctly. I know [...]

Paradise, part four of seven

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

IV. The Academics.
An old man and a young man are huddled in a small study, surrounded by books. There are shelves from floor to ceiling on all sides, filled with books. Smoke wafts throughout the room from the old man’s pipe.
“Knowledge. So much. All the things you could ever want to know,” says the younger [...]

Paradise, part three of seven

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

III. The Provider.
A man and a woman are sitting at a table together. The woman is enormously fat. The man looks at the clock on the wall, then gets up to go to the window. He skulkily reaches through and picks up a basket from the flower bed outside, which he brings in and sets [...]

Paradise, part two of seven

Friday, June 5th, 2009

II. Sex.
“Isn’t it great?! There are women here you can do anything you like with! All the time! You wouldn’t *believe* all the crazy things I’ve done with them. I’ve had sex with hundreds of women. I’ve had sex in hundreds of positions. With mutiple women at once! And they all love it, no matter [...]

Paradise, part one of seven

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

I. Chocolate.
Three teenagers are sitting in a courtyard. They are all eating chocolate. There are shelves surrounding them, filled with more chocolate bars. They are all slim.
“Isn’t.. mmph.. this.. mmph.. wonderful?” the youngest one says between mouthfuls. “When I started eating the chocolate, I was worried that I would get sick or it [...]

fresh dose of truth

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Ron Paul tellin’ it like it is.

selfish

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I
Me
Mine
what I need
what I want
all I care about is My own experience.
nothing else matters to Me.
I will take orders from nobody but Myself.
I will make all of My own decisions.
And I will make them with exactly one goal:
increasing My own happiness.
I want My life to be plentiful, beautiful, long.
I want more of things that I [...]

key gold statistics

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I’ve been doing some reading about gold this evening, and I thought I’d put my notes up here in case anyone else was interested.

There’s about 150000 tonnes of gold above-ground in the world. At current dollar market prices (about $28.5 million), that’s about $4.3 trillion worth of gold. That’s a number that’s kind of interesting [...]

Harry Reid doublespeak

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

“The fact of the matter is, our taxation system is a voluntary system.”
This is completely absurd, and just goes to show how twisted round in circles, blind, and out of touch with reality our political leaders have become.

This is the Senate majority leader we’re talking about here, not some crackpot nobody. The fact that he [...]