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. Well, golleeee. According to a brand-new New York Times investigation, members of the Bush Administration all the way up to Condoleeza Rice knew as early as 2001 that the government's own top nuclear experts had judged that aluminum tubes purchased by Saddam Hussein were NOT centrifuges for refining fissible materials, but parts of small artillery rockets. If Condoleeza Rice did her job, Bush knew this too. Yet members of the Bush administration continued to scream at the American public that they had "irrefutable evidence" that the tubes were for making nuclear bombs. My stars! Read the article here for yourself. Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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