In response to a post on a certain discussion board, Lupa has granted me permission to post an excerpt from her first book, Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone on my web site. Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.D “Everything the Communists advised us about communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, all the things the Communists advised us about capitalism turned out to be true.” –Post-Soviet Russian joke from the 1990s “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no motive to ban a e-book, for there could be nobody who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we can be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the reality could be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth can be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would grow to be a captive culture. Huxley feared we might develop into a trivial culture.” –Neil Postman “Why do not you make like a tree and slowly increase your maturity inside a welcoming and supportive environment.” –@doththedoth “Whenever I hear about some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on in regards to the evils of sodomy or no matter, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner slightly than later he will be found down on his weary and nicely-worn outdated knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay properly over the percentages to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.” –Christopher Hitchens “After every ego demise occasion, the brand new ego that arises is much less brittle, more resilient. What will destroy the sixth iteration of an individual, the first iteration couldn’t have survived mere contemplation of. Eventually the capacity to let somebody be unsuitable on the internet emerges.” –@chaosprime “What I’m saying is, the planet’s on fucking fire!” –Bill Nye the Science Guy “When one teaches, two study.” –Robert A. Heinlein “It is supremely unfair to target folks for being ignorant in this day and age when the complete training has been constructed to deaden the human intellect as a substitute of stimulate and develop it.” –Earthship Captain “You recognize, I’m sick of following my goals, man. I’m just going to ask the place they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” –Mitch Hedberg “Without deviation from the norm, progress shouldn’t be doable.” –Frank Zappa “They are saying that if you don’t study from historical past you might be doomed to repeat it. Additionally they say that historical past books are written by the victorious. It follows that given how little the historical past books speak concerning the preponderance of ignorance, that the idiots have been winning for a very long time.” –Dildog “Crows roost communally. Crows can describe particular person humans and inform other crows of their group about threats and associates. Corvids are highly intelligent and really social. Birds are dinosaurs. A part of the fun of feeding crows is realizing that, as a direct end result, actual dwell dinosaurs are going to speak to each other about you personally.” –Kistaro Windrider “Watching how IBM sells stuff and how their merchandise are being purchased all over the place is like watching missiles passing over one’s head, from A to B and from B to A. We’ve no management over it as it occurs Up There, however we certain as hell will probably be hit with blast, heat and radiation.” –Meadow Ellis “I have no empathy.” –Joe Biden “Science usually has been discredited by common culture.” –@lpgeffen “My voice was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my pals, and a device of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of reality.” –Diamanda Galas “There’s usually nothing you are able to do for mates who turn into ideologized. They’re like zombies, immune to logic, motive, and decency till the ideology passes, after which you won’t want to clarify what happened to them because they’ll claim they have been in opposition to the ideology all along.” –Mojave Phone Booth “Collective good is dead. Only capitalist hell that makes someone a clear revenue from the exploitation of others exists.” –Munin “We don’t have religion; we’ve changed it with science. And science is voodoo.” –T.

Unknown, Serge, and Bryce, on the OCZ NIA “The day before a breach, the ROI (Return On Investment) is zero. The day after, it’s infinite.” –Dennis Hoffman, on intrusion detection/prevention techniques “I believe every goddamned illness on the planet is improved by feeling blissful and good.” –Robert Anton Wilson “All I learn about Trojans is that they’re condoms. I do not know something about condom horses.” –Anonymous co-worker, on malware “Ignorance on hearth is best than brilliance on ice.” –Anonymous CEO “Fair use is the final refuge of the scoundrel!” –Larry Kenswil, Universal Music “A while back the Republican Party ceased to be a viable political organ, and is now the greatest, most elaborate ongoing prank in history.” –Anonymous “Okay, if you are within the band, you must go. Yes, even you, Kurt.” –Sayaka, on InSoc concerts Don’t condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we are able to help suffering folks, then out of the blue we develop into very price conscious.” –Andrew J. Bacevich “The plural of ‘regex’ is ‘regrets’.” –@ifosteve “Using Wikipedia as a specialities’ in-depth wiki ends in tears as a result of at some point the Deletionists roll into city and trash all that stuff.” –Craig Timpany “Pouring parmesan and garlic salt into this Earl Grey for a tasty savory beverage sensation.” –gdkar “The totally satisfied and the completely silly have a lot in frequent for the resemblance to be unintended.” –Robert Anton Wilson “Individuals who aren’t doing the work actually have sturdy opinions about what folks doing the work are doing incorrect.” –Matt Blaze “I am convinced that everything is fiction.” –Charles Hoy Fort “What the writers of fashionable science fiction invent as we speak, you and I’ll do tomorrow.” –JG Ballard, 1971.ev “If it is mentionable, it’s manageable.” –Mister Rogers “If all you’ll be able to say a few guide/film is that you wished it had been some totally different sort of artwork, the question remains why you bothered with it at all.

Max Anton Brewer “What good is magic if you can’t fellate your self?” –Agape Eris “I prefer to call that one, ‘Holy shit, it worked!'” –Jason Murphy “I find it quaint that people worry I am corrupting youngsters with my transgenderness. Lord, get to know me. There’s a billion things about me you want to maintain from your baby.” –Jess “I cashed out most of my BTC and paid for dental work. I’ve a mouth stuffed with Satoshi.” –Sarah Pottraz “It’s by the goodness of God that in our nation we now have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence by no means to apply both of them.” –Mark Twain “People might not hearken to frequent sense, however money’s one other factor solely.” –Stingray Bakpfeiffengesicht – German – A face in want of a fist. Michael Straczynski, on fen challanging his assumptions on the universes he created “If Morrissey says to not eat meat, then I’ll eat meat. That’s how much I hate Morrissey.” –Robert Smith “A lie doesn’t grow to be fact, improper doesn’t grow to be right, and evil does not develop into good just because it is accepted by a majority.” –Booker T. Washington “To suffix things -punk now ensures them a cozy sub-genre standing, thereby defending the established order from whatever genuine conceptual risk they might in any other case have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual risk, punching up.” –William Gibson “Any expertise, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don’t understand it.” –Florence Ambrose “You live in a world the place a whole operating system can fit on a wafer skinny piece of plastic smaller than your finger tip. And you’ll run this on a $5 (or $10) laptop that’s small sufficient to offer away on the cover of a journal. You need to be amazed, excited, and blissful about this.” –Carter Nelson “Charismatic leaders must come with a warning label on the forehead, ‘Could also be dangerous to your health.'” –Frank Herbert “When individuals perceive that the flipside of freedom is duty-then you definitely start asking for freedom from freedom.” –Nolen Gertz “I really feel like I grew a pain mustache proper right here.” –Brian Brushwood “That looks secure.” –Jason Murphy “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as exhausting as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as intelligent as you will be once you write it, how will you ever debug it?” –Brian Kernighan “Conservatism consists of precisely one proposition. There have to be in-groups whom the law protects however doesn’t bind, alongside out-groups whom the legislation binds but does not protect.” –Frank Wilhoit “If you ever doubt the usefulness of your efforts, remember that a substantial quantity of trees are planted by squirrels hiding nuts after which forgetting the place they put ’em.” –Sargoth “Government taxes people based mostly on cash. Charity taxes folks based on kindness.” –Kevin Binswanger “The very first thing a precept does is kill somebody.” –Lord Peter Wimsey “Probably the most terrifying truth about the universe will not be that it’s hostile, but that it is indifferent. But if we will come to phrases with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine that means. However huge the darkness, we must provide our own light.” –Stanley Kubrick “The Lord of the Rings: A story the place the social elite coerce a belief-fund child’s laborious-working gardener into shouldering global dangers. Before it’s over, he has to bodily carry his useless employer (and their jewellery assortment) up an active volcano.” –Edward Snowden “When I was young and foolish, I believed that there have been plenty of dangerous ideas on the market, however not that many actually horrible folks. However it seems that these horrible folks not solely exist, they run a lot of the world.” –Paul Krugman “Once you see one thing that is technically candy, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” –J.

Adam Savage “When you are from a society that raises boys to be soldiers, trans femininity is inherently a betrayal of the state.” –Ita Segev “I’m sensible sufficient to know I’m dumb enough that I can’t assist you.” –Deadpool “Homo digitalis may problem the state, but the state will all the time struggle back.” –David Patrikarakos “If they’ll get you asking the flawed questions, they don’t have to fret about answers.” –Thomas Pynchon “I do not imagine in God. But I do consider in dramatic irony.” –JMS “Icarus is bullshit, that’s why it’s referred to as mythology. People cannot stand genius with out an apology. Fuck that, fuck them go get what you wish to get. Let them stay dwelling and remark on the internet.” –Garfunkel and Oates “You cannot blow on an app.” –Jason Murphy, on carrying gaming dice “The very best strategy to get administration excited a couple of catastrophe plan is to burn down the building throughout the road.” –Dan Erwin, Security Officer, Dow Chemical, 2008.ev “I did the thing! I did the thing! I realized!” –Brian Brushwood “It does not feel to me that it is in our nature to do something completely.” –William Gibson “It would not matter that each Bill Clinton and Obama did issues that Reagan and each George Bushes would’ve approved of, because everybody from Limbaugh to Fox to Youtube randos is telling the actual voters of this group that those conservative positions they took are far left.” –Colin Spacetwinks “Today one other colleague showed up with an injured hand. The cause? Rogue roomba bought caught underneath the stove and he damage himself retrieving his little robot helper. I laughed at the absurdity, and then remembered that I applied security patches to my light bulbs yesterday.” –Gn0w “It’s not ‘danger,’ it’s ‘accepted occupational hazard.'” –Griffin “Guys, please don’t make jokes about the present political situation. It’s very tough to tell them other than what’s really occurring.” –Dahlia Adler “I honestly believe in a bottomless pit of stupid which swallows everything worthwhile and good and I haven’t seen much to dissuade me from that point of view.” –The Illustrious Skinbag “If you are uninterested in studying my phrases, why ought to I make extra of them for you?” –Matt Blaze “As you watch Trump’s defenders lie, deflect, and distract immediately and in the approaching weeks, do not forget that they don’t care about being caught in apparent lies. Calling bullshit still means you’re talking about the bullshit, not the information.” –Garry Kasparov “Create the world that your enemies see in their nightmares.” –Janus “But why can’t we’ve got a Christian nation? Because a marriage of church and state always results in corruption of both the religion and the nation.” -Rev.