Everything2 is a collection of user-submitted writings about more or less everything. Spend some time looking around and reading, or learn how to contribute.

Cream of the Cool

The Moon

It sounded like a pack of dogs in the night. I arose confused and looked to the blinds. A number of dogs live in our neighbourhood, true, but it's unlikely they would be roaming and snapping in the snow at stupid am in the morning.

The sounds came closer.

Then I heard the human chant.

They were drunk and slurring their words!

After Donald Trump's lie filled address of a Joint Session of Congress, I think the time has come to realize We're the Bad Guys Now.

That's difficult for Americans: we call ourselves not a good, but a great country in the very same spirit as Tony the Tiger. We stand for freedom, but what is freedom anyway? Certainly we don't stand for the freedom of a woman to control her own body, or the freedom of an intersexed person to live and present as who they are,

more thanks and blessings, more commentary and a personal update.

Today is Sweetmorn, the 61st day of Chaos in the YOLD 3191


"With presents friends should please each other, With a shield or a costly coat: Mutual giving makes for friendship, "
Håvamål proverbs


Thanks, again!

I have long known that gifts are a blessing to both parties.

CuNT: Copper nanotubes. The most unfortunate scientific name of all time, or the very best?

I hear the word nanotube and my mind goes to carbon nanotubes, as may yours. Most of the nanotubes we've heard or read about have been made of carbon, so it's a natural connection. "Nanotube" in most people's minds also means they're made of carbon, which ain't necessarily so. Cue a few Chinese researchers, YingNi Duan, JianMin Zhang and KeWei Xu, researching