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.


 
Mother Davis exclaims an uncharacteristic "Oi!" as she reads the morning news.

Oi! Yet another lie from George W. Bush has been revealed this morning. How is it possible for one man to engage in so much deception? Is he taking stimulants again?

This time, we find out that those squadrons of nasty drones that Bush, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld warned us could fly across the Atlantic Ocean from Iraq and dump chemical, biological or nuclear weapons on American cities were never capable of carrying weaponry of any sort.

What's more, we find out that the Bush Administration was told so by Air Force intelligence experts in a report in October. Yet, Bush & Company kept on telling the American people that they were under an imminent threat of the Attack of the Drones!

Perhaps you don't believe me as I report this information. Lots of people think I'm full of it, I know. But, I'll point you over to an article at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette that describes the story. This article was published across the world, in newspapers such as The Hindu in India and The Day in England.

Didn't see it in your local newspaper? Yes, there's a lot of information that some news editors aren't passing on to the American people. Write them a letter to let them know you're paying attention.

So, chalk up another lie for Bush. You've got to admire the ambition with which Dubya tells these fibs. At this rate, he'll overtake Richard Nixon as the most manipulative President in American history.

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