rumors that, and a prestigious scientist suggest, H1N1 could have been created in a virus laboratory and released by accident. 2 zen Qs [ponder them carefully to achieve cyber enlightenment]:

Q. why isnt the MSM all over this?

A. MSM sucks!!

Q. humans, do you know where your virus researchers are… Read full post »

hi all, there's been some very good sex writing on OS recently, incl a phenomenal post "what it feels like to be in a sexless marriage". which is burning up the chart with hits and responses. quite impressive.

a few yrs ago Alternet started posting sex essays. for me its hit… Read full post »

hi all. 3 ppl recently bookmarked me as a favorite after weeks of posts and nobody else bookmarking me. it all seems to be in response to my last post. thanks guys!! now, the pressures on. strange that a topic I least want to write about got the most response.... (I… Read full post »

boy do I wish I didnt have to write on this subject, but Im going to write at least this one post as my contribution to humanity and trying to "stop the madness".

GaryBaumgarten [1st link below], an award winning journalist who's covered 9/11, talks about the amazing revelation that Khalid… Read full post »

 alternatively titled, "high mucketymuck loses job over scaring PTSD NYC over air force 1 photo opportunity flyby"

theres this idea in our culture, encouraged by media/hollywood, that the prez is the "center of gravity" of anything significant that goes on in US govt. but, the reality is that pr… Read full post »

wow, this open salon thing is even more painful than high school. Im lucky to get 15 hits on my posts. and looking at posts that get significantly more than that, its hard to figure out. are most hits based on titles alone? an interesting measurement of the collective psyche....

ok,… Read full post »

derivatives 101. circulating in viral emails & landed in my inbox. I tried to find the original author with google, but couldnt.

    An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets:

    Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtua… Read full post »

conspiracy theory is basically about a "shadow reality" that lives right next to us, but which cant be seen directly. its only apparent from peripheral vision.

 in the banking sector, the shadow reality not discernable to the mainstream public is the possibility of putting banks into receivershi… Read full post »

hi all. first the link without any ado, then the ado. I just want to say, I dont have a lot of interest in this issue in general, but am just tuning into the general mass subconscious fears lately....

Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farms

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/swineflufarm… Read full post »

hi all.

aspen is sometimes called "the hollywood of the rockies". Ive been there a few times, maybe just 2 or so. I like the city & like to fantasize about living there in one of those gorgeous multimilliondollar cabins featured in an architecture magazine....along with one of those gorgeous holl… Read full post »

hi all. here I am bored out of my mind at the big fortune 500 company. we are in "design purgatory". which consists of drawing up tedious UML diagrams in Visio, which *seems* like it has lots of features, is not really that great of a product. Ive been writing code… Read full post »

ask the president what he thinks of exotic nanothermite explosive powder found in 911 dust samples by PHD physicists and whether it warrants further examination. vote on this question, it has a chance of being asked at the next internet press conference. he answered a question on marijuana legal… Read full post »

here we are with another post already. I do surprise myself. I go through phases of caring and not caring. today I care because my 22yr-long friend W. wrote me an email, and he seems to care. we met as sophomores in high school. he looked up a bunch of references… Read full post »

voicegal has replied to two of my posts on 9/11 conspiracy theory. someone that might be called a "responsive or active skeptic". yeah I must admit Ive seen no hostility in comments so far on such a controversial topic. open salon is livingup to its name. I guess it would be… Read full post »

ok, I got a few comments from a post on 9/11 conspiracy already, and no hostility so far, so I'm a little surprised.

two women commenters asked about "motive" for a 9/11 conspiracy.

I certainly dont have all this figured out but I think michael moore's movie, "fairenheit 9/11" does present… Read full post »

hi all, here is my 2nd post. it doesnt really fit anywhere else in cyberspace that I hang out at (although Ive been "hanging out in cyberspace" for something close to 3 decades I guess), so Im posting it here. its a little experiment to see how obscure it will remain… Read full post »

hey!! open salon is cool. glad to be here. fyi, as you may have just noticed, I write in lower case. its informal. collegial. casual. please dont hassle me about it. ee cummings was a poet and visionary. wink. seriously, Ive discovered that I can type faster without worrying about/ tripping… Read full post »