Detour (Prince of Tennis, Inui/Yanagi)

... on the court. The match is still on. There is no room for emotion. He watches Kaidou drop to his knees and cry in rage. When the referee gives the match to Rikkai, Yanagi thinks, I'm answerable now , and clenches his fist tightly around his racket until his knuckles turn white. In the end, Yanagi realises there is only one kind of victory he can claim, and it is not the one that matters the ...

... 2009 To: The Knights Carbonic Gentlemen, the culmination of our great plan approaches fast. What the Master called “the ordering of men’s affairs by a transcendent world state, ordained by God and answerable to no man”, which we now know as Communist World Government, advances towards its climax at Copenhagen. For 185 years since the Master, known to the laity as Joseph Fourier, launched his ...

Fic: Knowledge

... ways to make money off of it. But that is not a matter of making more or less time; it is accepting what there is and rationing it as carefully as a city under siege. Time is not answerable to anyone other than itself – a lesson he has learned, and the intricacies of which he shall never cease to learn. Metroplex thinks he knows enough now – has lived enough, seen enough, experienced enough – ...

More of the Conservative Manifesto

... be synchronized, with the exception of the USMC dress blue uniform, which would remain intact for hitorical purposes. The Commandant of the Corps would no longer be on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but would be answerable to the Army Chief of Staff, and would always be a 4-star general; each corps would be under a corps-commander with the rank of 3 – 4 stars. EUCOM ( European Command ) would be ...

I was going to stay out of this, but I'm being dragged into it whether I want to be involved or not, so ... Firstly, I am not my boyfriend, nor am I answerable for his behaviour. I don't appreciate the implications being made that, simply by virtue of my dating him, I am somehow responsible for Drew's actions, that I approve of them, or that I share the guilt for any wrongdoing he might engage in...

Are the chicken parmesan or the buffalo chicken sandwich from Domino's Pizza any good? If not what should I order for dinner? If neither one of those questions are answerable what did you have for dinner yesterday?

Fic: All Things Under Heaven [3/14ish]

...the lines of script written upon it: Radcliffe Camera to Helsinki Railway Station. Valid in one direction only for a period of three days from the date stamped below. Unauthorised travellers will be answerable to the Ministry of Justice. A slow smile spread across his face. So, Officer Rosberg had been sent here from Radcliffe Camera, wherever that was, to interrogate him. Nelson felt slightly...

Elizabeth Warren is one of my nominees

.... Families are ready for change. According to polls, large majorities of Americans have welcomed the Obama Administration's proposal for a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) . The CFPA would be answerable to consumers -- not to banks and not to Wall Street. The agency would have the power to end tricks-and-traps pricing and to start leveling the playing field so that consumers ...

Tree Ring Circus

... it cost to get us to the optimum (by restricting emissions or geoengineering)? 5. Is that expense worth it compared to other things we could do with the money? 6. Who's going to collect that money and oversee its spending? The last is the most important. There's a lot of people fervent over global warming because they want "a global authority not answerable to voters" to be the answer to it.

General updates and thoughts...

... rule of law in the United States could be undermined (leading to popular unrest or even local revolution) and has been undermined in the past. Rule of law locally hinges upon local police, answerable to a community that employs them, and also vulnerable to local community pressures. Many criminal figures in the 1920s and 1930s did quite well through the engine of offering police officers a stark ...