Dr. Omed: The Dromedary Syndicateis a fictive but not fictitious collective of poets, artfucks, and cranks. We exist to inject chaos butterflies into the prevailing jetstream of copulating factoids. The Nikes and Archons of the Syndicate strive day and night to increase the viral memetic load in the precious bodily fluids of the World Wide Whee. The world is our petrie dish, and we add our mite to accelerate the processes of Lamarckian cultural evolution until the janissaries of corporate fascism cry UNCLE.(Untitled)- September 23, 2006 GRENDEL&146;S LAUNDRY LIST: READING FROM NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB: BLACK SWAN A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise. Nevertheless, people tend to concoct explanations for them after the fact, which makes them appear more predictable, and less random, than they are. Our minds are designed to retain, for efficient...http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/23.html#a1758 (Untitled)- September 17, 2006 "RECOGNIZED AS INDISPENSABLE BY CIVILIZED PEOPLES" RELEVANT PORTION OF ARTICLE 3 OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION: In the case of armed conflict&133;each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: (1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any...http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/16.html#a1754 (Untitled)- September 16, 2006 "We must also provide our military and intelligence professionals the tools they need to keep our country safe." George W. Bush TOOL TOOLS NEW TOOLS OLD TOOLS PROFESSIONALS USING TOOLShttp://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/16.html#a1753 (Untitled)- September 16, 2006 What&146;s happening in Washington now is that the establishment political class&151;and that includes the military, moderate Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the jabbering pundits and op-ed writers, and the bulk of the thinktank denizens&151;are coming to grips with the stark fact that the war in Iraq is over. And that the United States has lost. It&146;s beginning to sink in, but it won&146;t be confronted directly by the political class until after the November elections....http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/16.html#a1752 (Untitled)- September 13, 2006 A tight crop makes a good photo-op. _____________________________ Five years later this space is still empty. Five years later there is no memorial to the dead. Five years later there is no building rising to show with proud defiance that we would not have our America wrung from us, by cowards and criminals. Five years later this country's wound is still open. Five years later this country's mass grave is still unmarked. Five years later this is still just a background for a...http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/12.html#a1748 (Untitled)- September 9, 2006 COMING TO YOU FROM HIS WINDOWLESS CUBICLE IN HELL DR. OMED READS A CLEAN, WELL LIT POEM. Note: It's somewhat disquieting at times to watch and listen to oneself on the viddy. All the tics, fumbles, mumbles, and mispronounciations are there in not quite living color and 'puter speaker sound for me to see and hear. It's instructive, for the same reason. I'm not quite satisfied with the reading I gave, but it wasn't too bad, and I wanted the florescent-lit ambience of my...http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/09.html#a1744 (Untitled)- September 3, 2006 Poetry after Midnight In the month of Remember...http://blogs.salon.com/0002296/categories/theDromedarySyndicate/2006/09/03.html#a1741 |