Here, mostly because I spotted a guy on the train home who looked a lot like him but probably wasn't, is the links page to the Fifth Aeon Agregore, which is Phil Hine's home on the web, and a useful archive of Chaos Magick resources. I did a workshop with Phil Hine about nine years ago in Wales, and iit was great fun. If Phil is reading this, hello. You may be amused to hear that the daemon we inaugurated that day near Machynlleth is still alive and well, and living in my teapot. Which reminds me, the kettle boiled some time ago...
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."