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In his master’s thesis Sacha Defesche traces the origins of the 2012 phenomenon, from the brothers McKenna to Jose Arguelles to David Icke and beyond.

U.S. captures $187 million drug haul in submarine

The U.S. coast guard captured a submarine-like vessel equipped with sophisticated navigation equipment and stuffed with seven tonnes of cocaine, Costa Rican authorities said on Tuesday.

Homemade submarines? Wow, now that is cool. I wasn't aware that things were getting that sophisticated.

Symbols and Shibboleths

'Tis to create, and in creating live
A being more intense, that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgramage, third canto

The summer of 1808, Revolution and Romanticism are sweeping the world. The poet, the musician, the artist, and the revolutionary are in the vanguard of forging a new world out of the old. Drawing from both the Gothic novels of the era, with their dark aristocrats and decaying castles; and from the Romantic politics which saw the era as indicative of an age of crisis with the ancien regime collapsed and a chaos dominating European political and cultural life.
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Licked before you begin

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus

The top of your game, height of your profession. Everything in life seemed good. Okay not unworldly so, but things went well, you had your little set backs, don’t we all, but still you were well loved and respected and the sky was the limit.
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Supernatural

So peaseblossom and I have been watching Supernatural lately, at the instigation of kniedzw, and so far it’s okay. We saw 8 episodes of season 1, but due to library craziness we’ve just started season 2.
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Gumshoes and combat

I think Gumshoes goofed by having combat be a separate system from the investigation system for basically two reasons.

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