Arafat is dead. Don’t think about it. Don’t talk about it. Don’t bother about it.

You have a few minutes that you wanted to do so? Talk about this man instead: Anwar Sadat [more].

Where Arafat was a murderer, Sadat was a soldier. Where Arafat was a terrorist, Sadat was military commander. Where Arafat was a duplicitous toady, Sadat was an imprisoned freedom fighter. Where Arafat was a thief, Sadat was a reformer. Where Arafat was revered by every human swine who ever blew up a Jewish school bus, Sadat was assassinated by the very same because he deserved his Peace Prize.

You have a few minutes that you want to spend discussing what would make the world better? What could possibly solve the problems between Arabs and Jews?

Spend your time reflecting on a Muslim leader who did just that. Don’t waste your breath on a corpse that’s finally out of the way.

EXT, AFTERNOON DAYLIGHT, PARK, MEDIUM SHOT. A husband, JIM, 40, handsome, athletic, clean shaven, sits on a picnic blanket with his wife, DORRIS. She is blond, 40 but looks 50, or maybe 55, probably was really good looking once.

JIM is wearing a pale blue Oxford, open to his chest. DORRIS has on a tennis bracelet with about 50 carats of pure DeBeers. The picnic spread is crystal and silver.

DORRIS

(Handing Jim a glass of zinfandel.)

I noticed Jim wasn’t looking at me the same way anymore.

JIM

I know relationships have their ups and downs. But, I mean, I love being married to my wife…

LONGSHOT. Visible now is a Rolls Royce limosine, a mini-buffet, and a beautiful 19 year-old Latina, CARMELA, in a maid’s uniform tending a silver chafing dish.

JIM

It was time to face facts. I hadn’t had a natural erection in the nude company of my wife for 10 years and the amyl nitrate was starting to do me harm.

DORRIS

(Setting her wine glass down.)

Without putting too fine a point on it, I reminded Jim that his prenuptual agreement would come into play if he didn’t start holding up his end of the marriage.

CLOSE UP of CARMELA, blushing and looking away.

JIM

So, I asked my doctor about Viagra.

ZOOM OUT, EXTREME LONG SHOT of the picnic party. They are on the most beautiful hilltop imaginable. Birds chirp in the background, the sun is starting to set and the deepening cerulean sky is shot with rays of pink and green. The world is supremely beautiful.

NARRATOR (VOICE OVER)

You don’t have to find her attractive. You don’t have to be in love. You don’t even need the desire to lay her. You just need one little blue pill. Ask your doctor about it today.

FADE OUT from TITLE CARDS and DISCLAIMER.

I don’t care if I forgot your birthday again, I’m still your friend.

#10, You don’t know what’s important—you better figure it out.

The things you think you want, you might not. The things you think are important to you, they probably aren’t. The trick in life is twigging to it early enough to have the time for the knowledge to be useful.

Go see “Fight Club.” On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. You’re going to be dead any day; maybe today. Find out what’s important, to you, and don’t let it go.

#9, Love and sex overlap but they are not the same thing.

No moral judgement or high horsery. Just learn it. You will thank me someday.

#8, Don’t be sloppy with your guns.

We all have to destroy now and then in life. Whether it’s firing someone, breaking up, putting a suffering pet to sleep, ratting out a friend to save him from ODing, whatever. Pain is a given. Less pain is what you are shooting for. Shoot straight.

#8.1, Just break up.

When it’s time, just break up. Don’t call again. Don’t write more. Don’t think about the things you could have said. Just break the fuck up.

It doesn’t matter who did what to whom or why or when or even how many times while whoever was watching. It means fuck all in the end.

The things that normally sane and thoughtful people will do to each other while on The Outs are horrifying, humiliating, and can be life changing in long-term, crippling ways.

#7, Common sense is more important than formal education.

#7.1, Don’t believe anything that can’t be shown.

Contrary to what PT Barnum prompted David Hannum to say, there is not a sucker born every minute. There are 210 suckers born every minute. If it sounds too good to be true, it’s not true. Eg, the cutting of a single Lamb’s throat to save every child molester since Eve went down on Cain is neither a reasonable nor a demonstrable proposition. And therefore:

#7.2, Organized religion is wrong and it’s okay to say so.

There is not one impartially documented miracle in history. No one is born knowing God. You get a certain flavor forced down your throat like a communion rape. There are 100 religions out there and most of them say that the devotées of all the others are going to Hell. Do you believe in God? The odds that you’ve picked the wrong one are 99:1. Because you’ve never been out of Shitburg, GA you don’t know that there are other religions and that Christians are, at most, 30% of the world. Or that half the Christians think the other half are going to Hell too. I’m an atheist and I think Catholics go to Hell.

There is a powerful and important place in the minds of men that religion inhabits but the Host that grows there by dogmatic decree is cancerous; eroding the ability to be responsible for yourself; eroding thought; eroding ethics; eroding common sense.

#6, Be nice.

Do it for yourself—not them. Back-stabbing wins battles but it loses allies and therefore wars. Aggressiveness opens doors but it closes and draws the bolt on two for every one it opens.

Nice guys don’t always finish first but they don’t usually have to move or change a flat without help either. You will attract people in your life who are like you. There’s no way around it. Being an asshole may well generate friends, but they’ll be unreliable assholes too.

#5, Pain is not an illusion.

Saying that pain is an illusion is on the face a way to embolden and calm oneself against awful experiences, but it’s dangerously dismissive of something that exists to improve and protect us: pain.

#5.1, Pain without dignity is not heroic.

Being a victim does not make you a hero and it doesn’t mean you deserve a book deal with HarperCollins. It’s too bad that happened to you but quit acting like you deserve a door prize for it.

#4, War is Hell but Politics is the Devil Hisself.

Before you don a beret and grow a goatée, learn some history. From the opening skirmish of the Peloponnesian War to those killed in Persia yesterday, war has been fairly constant and has ended at least 50,000,000 lives. Politics, however, has been completely constant and in just the last 100 years governments have been directly responsible for the deaths of 170,000,000 of their own citizens.

#3, Mind your own business.

Don’t play match-maker, don’t play couples-counselor, don’t bank roll friends, don’t make job referrals, don’t talk about personal issues with strangers. You might think this sounds unfriendly, but the opposite is true. Keeping your nose out of others’ asses is the Mile 1 marker to Real Friendship.

#3.1, Bust in when it matters.

Rarely, really rarely, you should get involved and be in the middle. If you find you’ve done this more than 2 or 3 times in your whole life, back up to “Mind your own business” until you get the hang of that.

#2, Own up to it.

Taking responsibility is the only thing that will make you strong. It’s the only thing you can count on not to let you down for good. It’s the only thing standing in your way.

#2.1, Being selfish isn’t just okay, it’s right.

Selfish doesn’t mean you want a new car to impress the chicks. Get it? If you want the new car to impress them, the reason you want it isn’t selfish. It’s the opposite. You want it for someone else.

The things we really want for ourselves tend to be much healthier. And if you aren’t taking care of yourself, you’re useless to everyone else anyway.

#2.2, You’re going to be wrong.

Don’t make asinine stands just because your feelings got hurt. Pretending you weren’t wrong will not make you right. It just makes you a joke.

You want to be right so bad? Try this: I was wrong.

#1, Ignorance is weakness and suffering.

Learn the fables. The grasshopper was an ignorant fuck who had a great time till lay-offs came around. Fortune comes into it and some are paid more or less than they earn but most get pretty much exactly what they deserve out of life. What did you do today to make your life better? Unless you’re on the way to bed, you still have a piece to try for. It’s in your power to improve your mind right now. Everything you do to make yourself better makes the world better for it.

Google says: Your search — “clitoris color by race” — did not match any documents.

So I took some time off to write death threats to myself for a few weeks but it was starting to scare me. I don’t think I should go to the police because I get the distinct feeling they wouldn’t help and it would only exacerbate the situation. I don’t think I want to to make this guy mad.

I didn’t finish that novel and this is the last time you’re gonna bring it up if you like affordable health care. And I swear to God if that rotten bastard William Gibson ever pulls that I’m too good for blogging shit again, I’ll spend every waking hour spreading a rumor that “Neal Stephenson” is his pen name. Teach that mother fucker to embarrass me in front of my woman.

You may remember this, What I did on my summer vacation, and I am selling a nuclear bomb in good working order. They’re funnier. Go read them instead. This is just here because I said it would be.

Countries trying to destroy America lately

These are the 49 countries who are more or less tired of the US. Up from 39 last quarter. An increase of over 20%. Go USA, #1!

Raw data

United States, 422.

• (how to make+heavy water+nuclear bomb)
• after the first nuclear bomb
• b-61 nuc weapon
• building a nucular bomb
• buy a nuclear bomb
• buy nuclear bombs
• cobalt nuclear bomb
• cost to make a nuclear bomb
• dirty bomb nuclear
• gatorade bomb
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• h bomb
• heavy water +how to make
• how do i make a nuclear bomb
• how do make a nuclear bomb
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• how to make a good bomb
• how to make a nuclear
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb?
• how to make a nuclear weapon
• how to make a nucular bomb
• how to make good bomb
• how to make nuclear bomb
• how to make plutonium 239
• how to obtain a nuclear bomb
• http://sedition.com/daily/20031216.html
• kill the fucking americans
• make a nuclear bomb
• make a shit bomb
• make up of a nuclear bomb
• making a nuclear bomb
• NA
• neutron bomb detonator
• newclear bomb
• nuclear
• nuclear bomb
• nuclear bomb + phone
• nuclear bomb + sound
• nuclear bomb and make
• nuclear bomb core
• nuclear bomb definition
• nuclear bomb ebay
• nuclear bomb fusion
• nuclear bomb good
• nuclear bomb how-to
• nuclear bomb in bible
• nuclear bomb kill
• nuclear bomb making for dummies
• nuclear bomb prices
• nuclear bomb statistics
• nuclear bomb trailers
• nuclear bomb washington
• nuclear bomb water
• nuclear bomb+good!
• nuclear bombs
• nuclear bombs america
• nuclear fusion for dummies
• nucular fission
• obtain nuclear bombs
• plutonium centrifuge
• prices of nuclear bombs
• statistics of nuclear bomb
• step by step bomb publish
• triton icbm
• uranium hexafluoride for dummies
• vinegar and baking soda bomb
• what to do nuclear bomb
• where can i buy a nuclear bomb
• x-10 nuclear bomb

United Kingdom, 132.

• ’how to make a nuclear bomb'
• 10 steps to making a bomb
• buy a nuclear bomb
• buy nuclear bomb
• hate nuclear bomb
• how can i make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a bomb out of ajax
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb!
• how to make a nuclear bomb?
• how to make a nuclear weapon?
• how to make as nuclear bomb
• how to make dirty bomb
• how to make nuclear bomb
• how+to+make+a+nuclear+bomb
• make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb core
• nuclear bombs for sale
• nuclear detonator
• nuklier bomb
• results of a nuclear bomb
• searchalot
• selling nuclear bombs
• where to buy a nuclear bomb

No country determined, 65.

• +plutonium centrifuge
• how do you make a nuclear bomb?
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• i will kill all americans
• NA
• nuclear bomb terminology
• nuclear bomb us selling
• nuclear bomb+good!
• search luggage
• sound level of a nuclear bomb
• where can buy a nuclear bomb
• working bomb nuclear

Canada, 50.

• :how to make a nuclear bomb
• buy a nuclear bomb
• george bush home address
• good about nuclear bomb
• good of nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make the easiest bomb
• it is a boy nuclear bomb
• m 80 bomb
• make nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb for sale
• the first nuclear bomb

Australia, 42.

• +how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear weapon
• make a nuclear bomb
• make nuclear bomb
• NA
• newclear bomb
• newclear bombs
• nuclear detonator
• ss 18 nuclear weapon

Netherlands, 16.

• buy nuclear bombs
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make my nuclear bomb
• http://sedition.com/daily/20031216.html
• NA
• newclear bombs
• nuclear bomb
• nuclear bomb make
• the working of a nuclear bomb

Bulgaria, 10.

• how to buy a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• make nuclear bomb
• NA
• selling of nuclear weapons

India, 10.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bombs +methodology

China, 9.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA

Finland, 9.

• buy newclear weapons
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb

Sweden, 8.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make an nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear+bomb+sample
• ss-n-22 +2004
• working bomb nuclear

Norway, 8.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuklier

New Zealand, 8.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb?

Denmark, 7.

• buy + nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• newclear weapon

South Africa, 6.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• make a nuclear bomb
• NA

Ireland, 6.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• neutron bomb + statistics

Portugal, 6.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• peacekeeper icbm webpage

Italy, 5.

• b-61
• make nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb uranium plutonium fission

Germany, 5.

• building a nuclear bomb
• how to make nuclear bomb
• NA
• neutron bomb working

Belgium, 5.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Japan, 5.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA

Czech Republic, 4.

• how to buy a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb plan little boy

Malaysia, 4.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• nuklier

Israel, 4.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• nuclear bomb how it kill?

Greece, 3.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• newclear bomb

Turkey, 3.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• the results of nuclear bomb

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, 3.

• msbs m45
• nuclear bomb for sale
• nuclear bomb in america

unknown, 3.

• how make a nuclear bomb
• NA
• newclear bomb

Yugoslavia, 3.

• buy a nuclear bomb
• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA

Brazil, 3.

• NA
• nuclear bomb washington

Republic of Korea, 2.

• NA

Chile, 2.

• NA

France, 2.

• how to make a nuclear bomb
• NA

Poland, 2.

• how to make nuclear bomb
• NA

Hungary, 1.

• NA

Switzerland, 1.

• i will kill all americans

Lithuania, 1.

• i’am selling

Sri Lanka, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Thailand, 1.

• +robert +newclear +bomb

Barbados, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Singapore, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Indonesia, 1.

• how to make nuclear bomb

Austria, 1.

• make a nuclear bomb

Antigua and Barbuda, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Philippines, 1.

• how to make nuclear bomb

Iceland, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Bangladesh, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Venezuela, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

Slovenia, 1.

• the biggest bomb ss

Malta, 1.

• nuclear detonator

Spain, 1.

• how to make a nuclear bomb

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In every single US Presidential election of the last 40 years at least 35% of eligible voters did not vote and in 2 elections 50% did not vote. In our generation a President has been chosen by 23% of voting age adults.

Your vote matters. Your vote can change things. It’s not a fantasy, it’s not propaganda, it’s not excuses. It’s just a matter of taking responsibility.

The National Mail Voter Registration Form is the one document that allows you to register to vote from anywhere in the United States. Download the PDF.

William Gibson has embarrassed me again. Asshole. He gave up writing a web journal because–

…the thing I’ve most enjoyed about it is how it never fails to underline the fact that if I’m doing this I’m definitely not writing a novel — that is, if I’m still blogging, I’m definitely still on vacation.

Asshole. Who does he think he is?! Where’s a fucking interrobang when I need it? How dare he?! Prick! Pseudo-Canadian bastard.

Show me up, will you?

JULIE

Why is the machete in the bedroom?

ASHLEY

It was making me nervous in the kitchen.

A recruiter from LA contacted me out of the blue, as the kids say. It was about a job, or finding someone for the job, at a company I’ve been interested in putting out of business for 4 years. Not because I dislike them but because I want the business.

I can’t move though, much as I’d like to study their business from inside, leave, and do what they do right and avoid what they do wrong. I’m too busy pulling ivy, holly, and Japanese knotweed from the creekside, and watching Veri get smarter.

Anyway, I know a few kids from LA, including Barnaby, who you know already. I’ve met some kids through him including, unfortunately, Billy Bob Thornton, and some others I like much better like Eric, who also knows a little Perl, and Dave.

Dave.

Now, when I was 15 I was into D&D, just then become AD&D. I loved it but I was even more infatuated with scifi on account of The Empire Strikes Back filling all the voids in my young life that my father and my church were unable to address. So between the hours of 7pm and 3am, every night for two years, I wrote a game called Stars End.

Twenty-two races, two gallaxies, governments, imperial cops, custom lasers by caliber/color, rail-shuriken-guns, AIs as NPCs, biological weapons and space flight bred by the oldest civilization known, a dozen character classes, 48-hour-long game parties in teams alternating between the Atari 5200 and playing on the clock to find the biggest zero stone in the known universe for Alexander the former Red Boot. Everyone who played it said it was better than Gamma World; well, that’s not such a compliment but they also thought it was better than Traveller, better than D&D. We had fun with that game.

When Dave was 15 he was off doing super genius stuff that maybe 20 kids in the entire world were doing. University stuff—smarter than the smartest person you ever had a friend lie about knowing stuff. Don’t be misled. He didn’t silently observe many moments where there was a chance to discuss it in a few short terms. So not only did I know he was smarter than I am but I got to get reminded, like I needed it. Like it didn’t itch already. Like it doesn’t still bother me today that I’ve met someone smarter than I am.

I let Eric know about the recruiter in case he wanted the job, though I was pretty sure he wasn’t in LA and I’m still kinda mad he thought I left the band b/c I was scared of LA and not b/c I was disgusted with the situation. Anyway, I let Eric know.

Eric wrote a nice reply. He’s in Singapore doing swimmingly. I’m not sure what “swimmingly” means beyond “well” but I’ve enjoyed saying it ever since I was a kid and realized it bugged my dad. Eric didn’t need the job and Singapore was treating him much better than it treated me.

Eric wrote to Barnaby and me. He mentioned Cort might like the job. You see how friendly we all are. I said he was otherwise employed at Microsoft. He remarked how weird it was we all ended up in IT; not one of has a formal background in it. Well, maybe we’re not as smart as Dave but we’re all pretty smart and IT came easily for us all.

Eric talked about what he’s up to and that Dave is there in Singapore too, being successful with him. He also remarked that they were playing D&D again and enjoying the new ruleset.