One of the authoritarian sorts that I work with (who I really like, good guy, just authoritarian) explained to me that it's all about security, and how if someone were to like, capture me and put me in a horrible prison and try to torture me into giving up my power point secrets by threatening to tell NASA about that time I took it in the ass from that Irish exchange student back in '93, I can just say, "oh they already know."

So I explained that if the boogeymen want me to spill secrets, they just have to take a naked pic of me in bad lighting and threaten to upload it to reddit.

Nice bootay!

Thanks! I need to work on my hip hits. I'm not very good at throwing them out there. I work with my shoulders more since I care most of my weight in my middle and upper body--but that can lead to problems if I don't watch my elbows.

I'd love to read a good modern biography of Aleister Crowley.

Or, you could read a really cool bio about Jack Parsons - Crowley acolyte and founder of JPL.

One of the authoritarian sorts that I work with (who I really like, good guy, just authoritarian) explained to me that it's all about security,

A friend of mine is a city planner for lower Manhattan, including Ground Zero. He said the amount of Security Theater in this country is nauseatingly dangerous.

I was a narc buddy for a friend who was moving to a higher level in the Fish & Wildlife Service. The interviewer asked me if she would ever have any reason to commit a treasonous act or if she could ever be compelled to turn against the US (I forget the exact wording of the question), and I said no, and then laughed and said "unless someone threatened her cats!" The interviewer put on a sort of funny smile and said, um, another friend said the exact same thing. So then I had to reassure him that I was joking and no, she wouldn't become a traitor to the US even if someone threatened her cats. I wasn't entirely sure he believed me, but she got the job, so I guess it worked out OK.

There's going to be a new iPhone this month, right?

But ... I want to read about Crowley.

I mentioned Crowley to my editor. She didn't know who he was. I wept briefly. (Wow, nice Freudian slip there. Jesus.)

Also, authoritarian guy's explanation sounds like a massive rationalization to me.

We here at the Narc Program do not have any sense of humor that we are aware of.

I mentioned Crowley to my editor. She didn't know who he was.

I mentioned Sally Ride to my psychiatrist. She didn't know who she was. I told her that was unacceptable and didn't see her again.

I told her that was unacceptable and didn't see her again.

Good girl.