I Want You To visit our kiosk at the mall, kill foreign nationals in their homes to protect your country, and die in a godforsaken ditch so I can photoshop your face onto someone else’s body, cremate what’s left of you at a pet cemetery, and dump your ashes in a landfill. Whoever said patriotism [...]

The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable — and that’s the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won’t get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet [...]

The people of the CIA do very important work. They help keep our country safe. They give our leaders information so they can make good decisions. And they take pride in their important jobs. We have a lot of different jobs here. We have analysts, doctors, lawyers, scientists, geographers, and librarians, to name just a [...]

“I wouldn’t like to be in that aircraft.” I recall exactly where I was eight years ago – I was awake, wasting time online (hey, what’s changed?) reading about men of science in the eighteenth century and scouting photos for the Schizoganda project. A friend I had been chatting with on AOLIM told me to [...]

I didn’t want to mention this, but now is the time to draw the line. This tragedy will only be magnified if it is exploited for political gain. Politicians who wrap themselves in the flag while relentlessly pursuing their usual partisan agenda are not true patriots, and history will not forgive them. – Reckonings; After [...]

Here are the election results since 1980: Compare – year after year, it looks as though “landslides” in either direction abound. So why are we still facing the same problems we saw in the 1980′s? Ask not what your country has done to you…

The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you’ve lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at [...]

Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman who studied nascent democracy in the United States and published De la démocratie en Amérique (Democracy in America) in 1835, said of our republic: The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. Bribery’s counterpoint – extortion – appears [...]

Notice of September 18, 2008 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, I declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [...]

Rarely does a popular German rock band’s sentiment strikeso close to home…