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Advertisements Reality has surprises in store for Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Independents.  It will baffle and astound atheists, agnostics, and devout fundamentalists of all faiths.  Strangenesses of particular existence will lead males, females, blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, Creole Haitian mulattoes, and even Irishmen to take what they thought they knew and cry in despair because…

Advertisements Frater Atzo on Speeding The rate of speed at which I travel on the highway is a matter of personal attentiveness and practice. I don’t ask or expect anybody else to do it, or to buy into it. But essentially, I stick to the posted speed limit like glue. If on a major highway,…

Advertisements It’s a bit of a downer, philosophically. Now, mind you, my mood isn’t really down. For reasons probably easily guessed, I woke up this morning in a state of ebullience that has pretty much lasted all day. And the work week has been wondrously productive. My boss and coworkers couldn’t be happier. But then…

Advertisements Award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds wrote at least two novels about a distant possible future, “Revelation Space” and “Chasm City,” in which he describes, among the elements of his novels’ universe, a disease called the Melding Plague. A strange mixture of biology, cybernetics, chemistry and software, it is a viral disease that infects…