Darker Things

How can you tell when the parrot is actually dead?

How do you tell a system that is broken apart from one that is merely not working for you? How do you tell apart a dead thing from one that is in critical but curable condition? How do you do so from the inside of the system or thing.

These are dark questions to be asking going into the holiday week, and I normally like to end the year on an upbeat note,…