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.


Your Contribution at Work
Sunday, November 23, 2003
 
Q: How is your contribution to your favorite Democratic candidate being spent?

A: The hiring of spies to follow other Democrats around, hoping to record mis-statements and expose them to the world.

Effect: The money you intended to further Democrats' hopes is being used to tarnish the eventual nominee.

Another reason to refrain from sending money to any particular Democratic candidate until a nominee emerges. Let them conduct internecine warfare on their own dime.

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