Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

The fight has begun in Fallujah. I've added a link to The Belmont Club, a blog that has been doing some great reporting on the battle. That blog also has a number of other links to military-related sites.

It's hard to figure out what the insurgents care about. I mean, where
can they be squeezed where it hurts. Maybe they don't care about anyone.
But I bet the people supporting them care about something, so I'm back
again to my question of why the US isn't squeezing something elsewhere.

As I expected though, I'm starting to see reports in the media that Iran
is supporting the insurgency. Oh really! Can't get anything by the
media. That's a good sign to me though. I was sure we'd start seeing
such reports once the US started preparing to deal with Iran. They'd
start leaking such stories to prepare the public for a confrontation
with Iran. You need a reason? Oh, it's because they are supporting the
insurgency, etc...

Vikings lost last night to the Colts. Bah. The defense just fell apart
in the 4th quarter.

Here's something that's been going around...

A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named 'Governmentium.' Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 11 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of governmentium causes one reaction to take over 4 days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. "Governmentium has a normal half-life of 3 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as 'Critical Morass.' You will know it when you see it.

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