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 thinks of her son, who could be drafted to join Bush's Armies of Righteousness if things keep going badly, as she listens to the insane words from the leaders of the Bush Administration:

Today, Vice President Dick Cheney said that he does not "think that the strategy is flawed or needs to be changed" for Iraq. What does that mean? Is everything going to plan? If that's true, what kind of sick and twisted Vice President would ever come up with a plan that involves American soldiers being picked off one-by-one like ducks in a shooting gallery? Dick Cheney shows his disrespect not only to America's soldiers, but to the entire American public, for saying so casually dismissing the American deaths in his misguided Iraq war.

Then there was Secretary of State Colin Powell, who got angry at Americans who demand answers about the lies he and George W. Bush told the world before the invasion of Iraq. Powell says, "Those who are so critical of the administration might want to hold their fire a bit."

You've got to love the guts of a politician who can make a remark like that, especially when it comes on the heels of George W. Bush's invitation to angry Iraqis to keep killing American soldiers. George W. Bush said of enemy guerillas shooting at Americans to "bring it on", but now Powell says that critics of Bush's insane war should "hold their fire."

Am I the only one who sees a disgusting set of priorities in that pair of remarks?

Hoping not,
Mother Davis

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