It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.


 
Bush Administration: A House of Cards

I just got, for about the fiftieth time, a piece of email spam advertising one of those decks of playing cards of Iraqi Evildoers. The spam says that buying the deck will be an act of patriotism that will support the troops. Of course, all the profits go to the guy who sent the spam. These decks of cards of sold by people who are eager to make profits from war.

As I hit the delete button, the thought came to me: How about the White House Most Wanted playing cards?!? After all, George W. Bush and those Republican buddies of his are the most powerful criminals in the land, ripping America off piece by piece. Offer that playing deck and I'll buy it!

Well, I replied to the spam offering the deck of cards, but of course the email was a sham, just like the cards themselves. I was hoping that this fellow might want to get into printing some more reasonable cards, the White House Most Wanted. Apparently, he only wants you to buy his war profiteering line of goods.

So how about anyone else? Know a company that prints out cards where we can put our own images on? Let's follow that trend, and alert the American people to the most dangerous criminals on Earth! Click on one of the links at the top of the page and send us an email -- we'll get the White House Most Wanted on the shelves in time for 2004, when they have planned to execute their biggest caper of all!

Posted by J. Clifford Cook at 4:30 PM. # (permalink)  




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