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 #1,212 to Boot Bush
Monday, June 21, 2004
 
Reason #1,212 to Boot Bush:

In order to feed George W. Bush's appetite for war, American soldiers are being siphoned away from places like Europe and the Korean Peninsula where they play an important and largely non-violent role as a deterrent force against invasion or destabilization.

On top of that, soldiers who were promised that they would be able to go home from Iraq after six months had that promise revoked and replaced with a pledge to send them home after a year. But even that wasn't enough to fill George W. Bush's appetite for war, so that new pledge was revoked, too. Now soldiers are facing indefinite tours of duty, making continued sacrifice for an increasingly questionable foreign policy.

And so it is with America's military forces stretched thin like never before, with America's soldiers overdeployed, undersupplied and exhausted, that the Bush Administration has kicked 2,882 servicemembers out of the military for the offense of...being gay.

Well, that'll fix things! (Source: Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military)

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