i keep thinking about @happybadger's (probably tongue-in-cheek) theory that 9/11 was actually 4 unrelated boeing aircraft failures and the whole "terrorist" narrative was a coverup carried out with the cooperation of the bush administration to justify the invasions of afghanistan and iraq. 9/11 wasn't an inside job, it wasn't even an outside job. it was corporate negligence and malfeasance, a spectacular coincidence, and naked political opportunism combined into a mass hallucination with horrifying and deadly consequences, from which we've collectively yet to awaken.
obviously that's not true, of course. obviously. but when i read stories like this i do start to wonder...


parable of the sower was written over 30 years ago before widespread adoption of the internet and other major technological innovations and social changes. how much could she really have gotten right?
You know you had a good thing going with Soyuz...

didn't have this happen