VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I receive notices every couple of days from the neighborhood watch. There has been a bit of a crime wave in the area, and everyone is on edge.
I’m getting very uneasy about some of these communications. Call me whatever you want, but I would never want to have to rely on some of these [...]

The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message.
Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization.
Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an [...]

I read Mark Morford’s column every week. I have it emailed, and I’ve added the feed to my Bloglines.
So it’s not surprising to me to me at all that he has written the sort of article on the Presidential Directive (my version) that I would have liked to have been able to write.
Bush Declares [...]

This short article by Victoria Cater gives another common example of what the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) does to families. This is typical of the kinds of situations I remember and hear about from people who write to me for advice.
The first claim - that her father was kicked out for not giving [...]

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Testimony and advice from another former JW

There is something inherent in controlling authoritarian communities like the JWs that helps to produce - and serves in some ways to protect - sexual predators of all kinds and, for some reason, especially pedophiles. There was at least one such in my own congregation, who described me as a “perfect little doll” to my [...]