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.


 
Reason #516 to Boot Bush (from Dr. Theopolis, who I understand may be joining us soon on the Irregular Blog):

When Bush was (more or less) elected in the year 2000, what did the people who voted for him expect him to DO? Think about it. The guy openly confessed he was not a "policy wonk." He didn't really seem too interested in the details of government. He had a long history as a lazy party boy. He was elected to DO NOTHING!

I know that seems strange, but think back to the year 2000. The economy's going great, we're at peace. For a lot of people, it's good times. As the old saying goes, "running a country is like cooking a small fish." Don't keep poking at it, just let it cook. The man was elected to be lazy, get nothing done, and leave well enough alone.

And so it would have been, were it not for the shady entourage. You know the crew--Cheney, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, Dumbsfeld... And the shady companies that donated big money and wanted something back regardless of the consequences to the country--Enron, Halliburton... They all got their claws into America and screwed it up. They sent our young men and women to die in the sand based on bogus intelligence. They gouged big chunks out of the bill of rights. They detained people indefinitely with no due process, like totalitarian thugs. They messed up our environment, bled our schools dry, and screwed up our tax code. He sucked our budget surplus dry and got us into a deficit spiral again.

The man has let us down on everything--even his implicit promise to the American people to slack off and do nothing once he was elected. Unfortunately for us, he and his creepy crew have done a lot.

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