He’s had a lot of practice helping families suffering from experiences that are simultaneously mundane and far more horrifying than anything in a mov… - Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Mo used to be a troubleshooter: whenever the organization had a spot of trouble she shot it until it stopped twitching.

GP services (and other companies) have been lobbying Congress to privatize the US Postal Service for years now. There are any number of beneficiaries: the private parcel carrier services, the phone and cable networks and internet service providers, and the obvious corporate interests who can do without the nonprofit competition. And there are any number of politicians who can make political hay by being seen to cut government spending on a basic infrastructure service that doesn’t turn a profit and that isn’t able to defend itself politically. Nothing has officially happened yet – the inertia of the US government is astonishing – but it’s obvious that the fix is in: too many people want the post office to die.