On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, John Young wrote:
Tim wrote a provocative long essay a couple of months ago but barred publication, well, never answered a permission request.
A "last hurrah"? Someone needs to mount an assault on Tim's "Heavily Armored Compound (tm)" and rip that last piece of sanity from it's obscurity: it would make a stunningly good counter to his more recent meditations. Besides, the assault could be televised live (simulstreamed over the intarwebs of course) on pay-per-view, with the proceeds going to Julian's suicidal persecution fund. A double bonus! And here, I thought the lottery was unwinnable? //Alif -- "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech