sociopaths are already highly productive members of corporate society

Still with the vampires! For an extremely sly and entertaining take on vampire evolution via entirely cynical corporate interests, see this "Powerpoint presentation". It's apparently a companion to Peter Watts's novel Blindsight, a copy of which I shall have to procure forthwith.

In other news, my morning has been rendered considerably more surreal by a sudden North Korean nuke to the back of the head. Scary-Go-Round is currently even more off-the-wall than usual. Atlantis is rotting to the logical fibre. Ask my Falkenstein party.

The order of the day is clearly distraction. My current family crisis appears to be pursuing its tensions and disagreements somewhere in the vicinity of my navel, since my stomach has been in random and excruciating knots since approximately Friday. If I'm looking pained in your immediate vicinity, please don't take it personally.