Death in High Places (13/??)

I went back outside and leaned next to the door. I counted slowly to ten, then again. The doors slid open. "Hello, Luck," I said, without looking over.

"That's what makes you so fascinating," she purred, "You could predict I'd do that."

"You're fickle," I said flatly.

"That's not very nice," she said, "And you were the one that wanted to talk to me."

I started walking down the street. She caught up and slipped her arm under mine. "What about Greed?" I asked

"Typical boring newbie," she said with a shrug, "Quit acting so much like somebody just died!"

(Sorry, late post, and then I made it upload later, just to spite you all.)

Hate Filled Raving Lunatics

Okay, seriously. These people are STARK. RAVING. MAD.

" A nuke or two, even if low yield, will devastate America. A Hobbesian “war of all against all” will emerge as the criminal, opportunistic, and seditious elements strike out. Expect heavily armed and infuriated conservatives to launch a cleansing war against the traitors. The armed will mow down the mostly unarmed segments, especially those elements that devoted forty-plus years to anti-American hatred to destroy this country. Should the likes of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Michael Moore, Ward Churchill, Dennis Raimondo, et al. act out their sedition in a just-nuked America, expect their bodies to be found shot full of holes. Expect gun battles at banks, food stores, ATMs, gas stations, and outside hospitals. Leftist professors will be strung up. It will be every man, woman, and child for themselves." (You can click to read more, but I wouldn't suggest it. It's utterly insane apocalyptic eliminationist rhetoric.)

Batshit "conservative" snuff porn. I don't even know who half those "evil liberals" are, and I'm pretty damn liberal and informed. I think they're the unholy names of liberal demons that haunt "conservatives" in their nightmares with images of... fuck, I dunno, condoms? Gun battles outside ATMs. When society's fallen apart, what good is money? And how are they going to tell professors? I guess the fact that it doesn't make any sense can be excused by the fact it's insane.

And for more mainstream right-wing insanity, I give you Michelle Malkin who's screaming about the Flight 93 memorial... because it's not a complete circle.

Sweet monkeys.

The Internet

It's always a little weird for me when I see something offline that I first saw on the net. Or see the net mentioned offline. Unexpected somehow, like the Internet's not quite really real.

From THUD!

"Vimes had never got on with any games much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks around, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves." - Terry Pratchett

Death in High Places (14/??)

"So you're saying you don't know anything about Justice's murder?" I asked.

Luck tried to pull away, but I'd clamped her arm to my body. "What! How could you suggest something like that?"

I kept walking, she had to keep up, or get dragged along. "You two never got along," I said.

"Because she was insufferably self-righteous! There'll be a new one along soon."

"Not yet. Do you know how Succession works for Justice?"

"No, why should I? Like you said, we never got along. Just let the new her deal with it. Let go of my arm."

"No."