Another passage, after a long long time

So I haven't been blogging lately -- to be honest; I had hoped to let this blog die a natural death and so on and move to different (PHP5 supporting) hosting but I was inspired a bit back and am taking baby steps on this blog.

The plans to move this blog are still underway, just a bit blocked by certain other stuff I'm doing right now. How many of these posts survive the transition is a point I have not yet decided. A few certainly; all -- definitely lot.

Back to the point -- from The Ground Beneath Her Feet / Salman Rushdie

These things are bad for you: sex, high-rise buildings, chocolate, lack of exercise, dictatorship, racism! No, au contraire! Celibacy damages the brain, high rise buildings bring us closer to God, tests show that a bar of chocolate a day significantly improves children's academic performance, exercise kills, tyranny is just a part of our culture so I'll thank you to keep your culture-imperialist ideas of my fucking fiefdom, and as for racism, let's not get all preachy about this, it's better out in the open than under some  grubby carpet. That extremist is a moderate! That universal right is culturally specific! this circumcised woman is culturally happy! That Aboriginal whistlecockery is culturally barbaric! This image has been faked! Free the press! Ban nosy journalists! The novel is dead! Honor is dead! God is dead! Aargh, they're all alive, and they're coming after us! That star is rising! No, she's falling! We dined at nine! We dined at eight! You were on time! No, you were late! East is West! Up is Down! Yes is No! In is Out! Lies are Truth! Hate is Love! Two and two makes five! And everything is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds.