Blogging Again
Jellybeans aka Glovefox aka Citizen of the World is blogging again. Check her out here.
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The Elements of Dark Fantasy
January 4, 2004The Elements of Dark FantasyAmerican Military UniversityHM214, Science Fiction and Fantasyby James Landrith Dark fantasy is a segment of fiction that features plots and themes involving fear, horror, supernatural or psychologically based...
Time Warped
Time Warped American Daily by Jonathan Pait The recent revelation of Essie Mae Washington-Williams that she is the daughter of the late Senator Strom Thrumond of South Carolina has caught the attention of the...
Secularism and Western Politics
Dr. Muqtedar Khan on The Myth of Secularism: Religion and Politics are Mutually Constitutive As a Muslim intellectual living in the West, researching and teaching political theory and political philosophy, I have always marveled...
Surplus L. Neil Smith Books
I interrupt this regularly scheduled battle for liberty to exercise a little capitalism. Somehow, I've ended up with an extra copy of The Venus Belt and Tom Paine Maru. Anyone looking for copies of...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
Marine Wants Record Cleared; Cites Court Order Halting Experimental Anthrax Shots Posted: 2003-12-28 10:23:00.000 Prime Minister Blair Busted: Scandal Erupts Over Lies About Iraqi Weapons Posted: 2003-12-28 10:31:00.000 Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting...
Feeling Secure vs. Being Secure
Dr. Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute, on "The Greatest Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself: One of the few roles...
Beautiful Ambiguity
Ruth La Ferla of the New York Times on Generation E.A.: Ethnically Ambiguous EACH week, Leo Jimenez, a 25-year-old New Yorker, sifts through a mound of invitations, pulling out the handful that seem most...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
Payback for Capturing Saddam Hussein? — Kurds Demand Independent Kurdistan Posted: 2003-12-23 11:01:00.000 Cheney should check his own “facts” Posted: 2003-12-23 18:26:00.000 Retired General Zinni Opposes U.S. Policy on Iraq Posted: 2003-12-24 10:08:00.000 Investigation...
Mercury and Venus – A Comparison
Mercury Size: 4879 km Distance from Sun: 57,910,000 km Atmospheric composition: 42 % helium, 42% sodium and 15% oxygen Moons: none Orbit: 88 Earth days (highly elliptical) Rotation on axis: 58.6 Earth days Discovery...