On the other hand, if your evidence of his identity is equal to the quality of the stuff I've known you to cite, you were cheated and should raise Hell.
Clean and sober since 10/22/1980, and it's been worth dealing with the pain I'd been masking with drugs. (Nothing worked all that well anyway. When the hospital gave me morphine for my kidney stones, I couldn't tell a difference. Fibromyalgia makes everything ever so much more interesting. Meh.)
(They switched to Dilaudid. That did make me stop screaming. But I am bewildered by people who don't mind needles. That damn thing does not belong in there.)
If you're giving it to a genuine charity, rather than a front for totalitarianism, there really isn't one I can think of that I'd find objectionable. Southern Poverty Law Center is kind of awesome. (And brave. Any outfit that publicly lists Nation of Islam as a hate group is a ready-made market for Kevlar baby clothes.)
I suppose you could give it to Greenpeace, which is the outfit that taught me to make poison gas and letterbombs back in the 70s, before they "separated" from the terrorists at Earth First. (Still funded by the same people, though.)
--Incidentally, as regards SF writers and drinking, I think you should know this isn't 1955.
Honestly, good for you about the sobriety. You can look up the hockey incident on Google.
Now, back to your ignorance: if you think I'm totalitarian, you're arguing with the voices your head, for you unless totalitarianism means "something that Matthew Joseph Harrington thinks is icky." Asshole.
I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to dislike more than one thing.
As for going cyborg, I have to do too much maintenance on the original gear to deal with an operating manual as well.
Although-- no, never mind; if the human body came with an operating manual, it would be published by the lowest bidder, written by an MBA, censored by moralists and politicians, and doubled in weight by the warnings and disclaimers demanded by lawyers.
Possibly tripled. Do you know, I saw a notice on a bag of microwave popcorn that said: CONTAINS HOT POPCORN KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN ?
This notice is there for no reason but to get money for a lawyer. Absolutely nobody believes it has any more effect than would a notice that said: CONTAINS ANGELINA JOLIE AND CHARLIZE THERON NAKED ON TOP OF A FLYING SAUCER LANDING AT THE SUPERBOWL HALFTIME SHOW KEEP AWAY FROM CAMERAS.
(Oh God, I mentioned popcorn. I can't have corn ever again. it yields oxalic acid, which goes into kidney stones.)
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On the other hand, if your evidence of his identity is equal to the quality of the stuff I've known you to cite, you were cheated and should raise Hell.
Clean and sober since 10/22/1980, and it's been worth dealing with the pain I'd been masking with drugs. (Nothing worked all that well anyway. When the hospital gave me morphine for my kidney stones, I couldn't tell a difference. Fibromyalgia makes everything ever so much more interesting. Meh.)
(They switched to Dilaudid. That did make me stop screaming. But I am bewildered by people who don't mind needles. That damn thing does not belong in there.)
If you're giving it to a genuine charity, rather than a front for totalitarianism, there really isn't one I can think of that I'd find objectionable. Southern Poverty Law Center is kind of awesome. (And brave. Any outfit that publicly lists Nation of Islam as a hate group is a ready-made market for Kevlar baby clothes.)
I suppose you could give it to Greenpeace, which is the outfit that taught me to make poison gas and letterbombs back in the 70s, before they "separated" from the terrorists at Earth First. (Still funded by the same people, though.)
--Incidentally, as regards SF writers and drinking, I think you should know this isn't 1955.
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Now, back to your ignorance: if you think I'm totalitarian, you're arguing with the voices your head, for you unless totalitarianism means "something that Matthew Joseph Harrington thinks is icky." Asshole.
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I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to dislike more than one thing.
As for going cyborg, I have to do too much maintenance on the original gear to deal with an operating manual as well.
Although-- no, never mind; if the human body came with an operating manual, it would be published by the lowest bidder, written by an MBA, censored by moralists and politicians, and doubled in weight by the warnings and disclaimers demanded by lawyers.
Possibly tripled. Do you know, I saw a notice on a bag of microwave popcorn that said:
CONTAINS HOT POPCORN
KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN
?
This notice is there for no reason but to get money for a lawyer. Absolutely nobody believes it has any more effect than would a notice that said:
CONTAINS ANGELINA JOLIE AND CHARLIZE THERON
NAKED
ON TOP OF A FLYING SAUCER
LANDING AT THE SUPERBOWL HALFTIME SHOW
KEEP AWAY FROM CAMERAS.
(Oh God, I mentioned popcorn. I can't have corn ever again. it yields oxalic acid, which goes into kidney stones.)