Any Time Someone Puts A Lock On

The Other One I Did Was "i, Robot." I Take Apart Isaac Asimov's Robots World.

We're Going To Fight This Battle With Everything We Have, And We Will Probably Lose. But Then We Will Fight It Again, And We Will Lose A Little Less, For This Battle Will Win Us Many Supporters. And Then We'll Lose *again*. And *again*. And We Will Fight On. Because As Hard As It Is To Win By Fighting, It's Impossible To Win By Doing Nothing.

Terrorism Is About Magnifying One Mediagenic Act Of Violence Into One Hundred Billion Acts Of Terrorized Authoritarian Idiocy.

If It's Not In My Email Archive, I Don't Know It

The Opposite Of Esprit D'escalier Is The Way That Life's Embarrassments Come Back To Haunt Us Even After They're Long Past. I Could Remember Every Stupid Thing I'd Ever Said Or Done, Recall Them With Picture-perfect Clarity. Any Time I Was Feeling Low, I'd Naturally Start To Remember Other Times I Felt That Way, A Hit Parade Of Humiliations Coming One After Another To My Mind.