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. More Big Lies from Li'l W. Oh, we all know about George W.'s big whopping lies -- the lies about all of Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, the ones that Bush can't find now that he's the new dictator of Iraq.There are other lies that Resident Bush makes in his State of the Union Addresses though. You could say that his State of the Union speeches tend to have more lies in them than truths. They're pretty bald-faced lies at that. Howsabout this one: Bush promised us that he'd dramatically increase the number of Americorps volunteers, and he got a lot of good press for saying that. Well, now that all the media attention has faded away, what is Bush really doing? He's cutting the number of Americorps volunteers in half, of course. Good show, Bush! That kind of lie takes real courage! Of course, Bush doesn't admit that he lied. He says that it's all due to an accounting error - no I'm not kidding about that. Guess he learned the skill of lying from his old friend, Enron's Kenneth Lay... Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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