Threat Levels

From Wired, via Boing-Boing: Look closely at the “Green” threat level. Yes, you are read­ing that cor­rectly. As a res­i­dent of America, you are more likely to be shot by a police offi­cer than killed in any type of ter­ror­ist attack. Now fac­tor in the well-documented racial bias in law enforce­ment strate­gies and arrest rates, …

No Santa

I started writ­ing this post to point out that the coör­di­nated demands by vir­tu­ally every major nut­case over the New York Times’ reveal­ing the data-mining of bank­ing records via SWIFT — the calls for exe­cu­tion, harass­ment, lynch­ing, etc. — was a clear indi­ca­tion that Karl Rove is no longer a tar­get of Fitzgerald’s inves­ti­ga­tion. The much-vaunted “Fitzmas” is over, …

Wisdom and The Key

Nothing is unbreak­able No sys­tem is per­fect There is always another way Given proper inquiry, the way can be found The future lies in the pos­si­bil­ity Where any­thing is pos­si­ble This is what we for­got on 9/11.

V for Vendetta

Saturday I saw V for Vendetta. I loved it. There is lit­tle I can say about this that I haven’t already heard: Gay anar­chist ter­ror­ist blows shit up. Fascist gov­ern­ment born of con­ser­v­a­tive Christian death-cultism and a multi­na­tional phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal plot col­lapses. The dis­ap­peared have their day. The movie is Rorschach, like Team America. What you say about …