March 2007

In Genesis 2:17, the god character commanded: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

The concept album is meant to be Peart’s reflections on faith and its misapplication he’s seen in his travels around the world.

The devout Jehovah’s Witness forced sticks down kids’ throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement.

Paradise Valley, Montana, and Southern California are at the exact same level of earthquake threat, as classified by the USGS.

We can’t say that IBM wanted to kill Jews. We can absolutely say that IBM wanted to sell computers, and this helped Hitler kill Jews.

They want certain images and speech to be taboo, and considered ‘sacred.’ But you can’t have that without wider curbs on civil liberties.

The Heyoka embodies the unexpected, the profane, the crossing of boundaries. engagement in taboo behaviors. To shake people out of their illusions.