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...This futurist lived long enough to serenely contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since...
...offended at the same time. Although “political correctness” came about as an honest means to protect each other, we, in America, have created a culture crippled by its own over-sensitivity. It’s difficult to fix problems that we are afraid to look at. Though our countries are on opposite sides of the world, we can still trace the common ancestry of our humor. It’s possible that they evolved convergently, once separated from Commonwealth jokes about dead birds and the Queen. “Summer Heights High?...
...yeah, each track on his bold new effort, “808s and Heartbreaks,” gets the Auto-Tune treatment: he’s foresaken rap, and his questionable singing chops are lazer-bevelled into serviceable shape by software. But take a closer look at this reinvention of an album—Kanye as solely-strings-and-synths balladeer?—and he’s still human. On second single “Heartless,” he confesses that he “lost his soul / To a woman so heartless...
...this is ’andsome recompensation indeed!” said Ollie, weighing the stuffed purse in his little hands. “Where will you go now?”“To finish it,” said The Stable Boy.************Where was he? Felicity looked at the jeweled watch upon her dressing table. It had been a full half hour since she had sent the footman to the stables.It had become increasingly unbearable for Felicity to see her husband and that doxy of a chambermaid canoodling in her house. He had vowed to be hers...
...John Brennan, a former CIA official who has counseled Obama on intelligence matters, said in August that the use of the field manual was an open question. "Whether the Army Field Manual is comprehensive enough to cover all those tactics and techniques, that's something I think he'd look to his national security advisers for," said Brennan in an August interview with Congressional Quarterly. Last week Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for the top job at the CIA, after an outcry of protest from Obama's liberal supporters. Though he worked at the CIA early in the Bush...