I can be somewhat of a satirist. I tend to mock organized institutions (don't we all) and public figures. Any mention of the non-famous is pure coincidence; I mean, who really cares about you? I also tend to employ sexual innuendo or other raunchy humor into my discouse at random intervals. If such conduct, by the governance of your home or native land, could land you in jail, or worse, on restriction, then perhaps you should take that into consideration.

This web page is best viewed on a monitor. You should have both eyes open, two thumbs up, and a member of the clergy present. Pants are optional.

I take no responsibility for the failure of my web site to load properly in your web browser. My web site is mostly compliant with recent web standards and loads properly in the most recent versions of any reasonable web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape/Mozilla, Opera, etc.). Any failure to acquire or use up-to-date software is one of your shortcomings, not mine, since the software is available at no cost. You will not be missed in this space if your web browser keeps you away. (That said, I make an effort to employ methods that allow my web site to be viewed in old, shitty web browsers like Netscape 4, but any time I make changes, compatibility with Netscape 4 is shot to hell and usually isn't correct for about 18 months.)

Copyrights. Intellectual property. Restrictions on information. Um, I respectfully disagree.

According to copyright law, any "fixed creative work" secured in a "tangible medium" is copyrighted to the author of that work. Rights reserved to that author include the rights to display, modify, and otherwise distribute the work or any modifications of it -- as well as the right to allow others limited or full permissions to use or redistribute the copyright work (among other things). What this means for this web site is that everything written here is mine, and you can't do anything to or with it (publicly) that I do not specifically allow. That's right, I have the right to share my information as I will, when I will, how I will, for it is mine and that's how it works.

However, as I have that right, I grant you and anyone else who may find information on this web site valuable in any way the privilege to use such information. For matters of decency, which are governed shouldn't be and aren't respected but should be, I request that you cite any information that my web site provides for you. As long as credit is given for information provided, anyone should feel free to use any information from any source at any time, because there is always a trail of source links that we can follow to verify the authenticity of the information.

Unfortunately, we are governed (inappropriately) by laws which restrict the flow of information, and therefore of furthering our understanding of truth. As far as I am concerned, this goes against the American way, and indeed the human way. How is humanity supposed to progress if we restrict the benefit of new and/or unique information to its originators? I understand the purpose of preventing people like me from receiving direct financial benefits from a writer's or inventor's work, but why should we not be allowed to use the information provided to further the develop the original product into something better?

To restrict the freedom of information is to restrict the potential of humanity. It is totalitarian in nature, and I reject the idea.

My purpose in this space is to respect reality. I shall share the facts, my interpretations of the facts, and my opinions. I shall apply my moral, ethical, and other values as any and every one should and does. I do not aspire be "politically correct"; I shall be objectively correct.

I do not intend to offend, upset, or insult anyone; nor do I intend not to. When facts or opinions trigger such negative emotions, I find that the problem is not with me, but with those who can not handle truth. If you can't take the bad with the good, then you need to work on that. It is not my responsibility to sugarcoat the truth just so you can take it. If you find that truth is offensive, then find a place where lies and deceit are culturally and socially acceptable, but do not complain to me.

Perhaps others can express this sentiment in other ways:

Life is not safe. It will damage you. It is invariably fatal. Life hurts, leaves scars, and in general can be rather unpleasant. That's why I advocate in favor of enjoying it as much as possible: the pleasures of life are the only thing that make the pains worthwhile.

Laura Goodwin

Madonna

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Joseph F. Smith

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.

Clement Stone

This is really about tolerance. Why should anyone have to tolerate anything? Why should value set A be tolerated if others can not tolerate value set B? Why must everything be black and white, homo and hetero, male and female? Why should anyone accept anyone else as though they are the only ones to blame for any intolerance? Doesn't anyone see that it works both ways? Why the division and derision? It's quite pointless.

I live in a great country that was built upon a foundation of tolerance and diversity. The United States declared its freedom to escape from the oppression and intolerance of British rule of the 1700s. My country has survived for over two hundred years, celebrating its diversity despite the perpetual existence of elitism and unilateralism, or monoculturalism among isolated factions. For decades, people have flocked to this country for its freedom of expression, yet they wish to reduce others' freedom of expression. What's the justification?

Answer: there is none. We live in a society of justified inequality, and therefore we should celebrate our differences, but we must also strongly oppose preferentialism.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Vulcan greeting

I conclude: I employ the only logic with which I am blessed in order to provide the most reasonable discourse I possibly can on this web site. I challenge you to distinguish the facts from the interpretations, and to distinguish matters of fact from matters of opinion. This may be no easy task, as this is the primary outlet for my political, philosophical, cultural, and all other views.

If you take the above message to heart, or think in much the same way, then you should have no problem with me. I aim to be honest, occasionally brutally so, but the idea is to spread truth, for there is no room for nontruth. (Thank you Neal Boortz and Bill O'Reilly.)