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.



Sunday, November 02, 2003
 
Reason #419 to Boot Bush:

The Bush State Department came up with a report accurately predicting the chaos of post-war Iraq. The Bush Defense Department was feuding on a personal level with members of the Bush State Department and so ignored the report. George W. Bush's job as an administrator is to bring differing departments into the same room, regardless of squabbling and get them to work jointly for a common goal. George W. Bush's job as a leader is to synthesize information from various sources and create a sensible strategy for action. George W. Bush couldn't handle these essential presidential tasks. (Source: New York Times Magazine November 2, 2003)

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