Major combat operations have ended, yet the insurgency refuses to concede their defeat. It's politics to the knife in rebel strongholds like Cleveland, where local unrest threatens to boil over into outlying areas. Some generals fear civil war between Shias, Sunnis, and Libertarians.

One suspects Tel Aviv has hospitals that rival those of Paris.

FYI: If you find yourself with a bag of unground coffee beans and no coffee bean grinder, mashing the beans up with the flat part of a fork does not work.

More band names that weren't created by a marketing department: Dr. Theopolis, Radio Birdman, The Year of the Wagon, Dandy Warhols, I Lick You Because I Love You, Ocean Colour Scene, Television Personalities, Cat Power, Clone Defects, Hate Dept., Fad Gadget, Prefessor and Maryann, Mobilis Stabilis, Daily Planet, Fad Gadget, Defend the Palace, Suicide Commando, Echobelly, Crispy Ambulance, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Squonk Opera, Girls Under Glass, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic.

I think I might be living in a computer simulation.

I've been thinking about that Computer Simulation theory. I think the gist of his "argument" was that since we can conceive of one day having both the technology and the desire to precisely simulate human life in the past, we have no rational reason to believe that we are not -- right now -- living in such a simulation. But anyway though. Imagine what a great source of new movies a simulation like that would be! If we could simulate the people who create the movies, and simulate *the budget* for making them, then just download them from the simulation server.... The same goes for music, books, etc; we could have whole simulated societies dedicated to providing entertainment products for us to download for free, for nothing, with zero effort! Oh wait....