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.


Respecting the Weekly World News
Sunday, November 09, 2003
 
Yesterday, I was waiting in the checkout line at my local grocery store when my eyes hit the latest issue of the Weekly World News. This week, they'd put a doctored photo of Osama Bin Laden and Hitler riding a camel together and splashed a headline across the front exclaiming the importance of this recent documentary find.

Ha, ha, ha! What silliness!

But then it hit me that this sort of blatant fakery isn't that far removed from what George W. Bush and his cronies are up to.

George W. Bush is the Weekly World President.

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