In 1991 when British troops invaded Iraq to fight the First Gulf War, they wore forest camouflage, having sold all of their desert camo to the Iraqis to fight the Iranians just a few years earlier.
Senator Orrin Hatch said that, “capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”
Every Diebold AccuVote electronic voting machine in the country can be opened with the same key.
The US government recently put online documents that are allegedly Hussein’s government’s plans to build an atomic bomb. The plans, untranslated from Arabic, they later realized, could likely be used to actually build a bomb. In a panic, they took the documents down. Never mind that The Progressive published plans to build a hydrogen bomb in 1979 after defeating the United States government in the Supreme Court. (This is parallel to Bush lambasting the New York Times for revealing a program tracking international money transfers after Bush himself had revealed the program to the public in the aftermath of September 11th.)
The frustrated and flabbergasted state in which I now find myself, because of the contemporary political atmosphere, is the state of a man repeatedly confronted by the absurd. I’m nearly dumbfounded by the world around me, and those who are pulling the strings.
I urge all of you to vote next Tuesday (however few people will read this). As Plato said,
one of the consequences of refusing to participate in politics is that you find yourself being governed by your inferiors.
