Par for the course in Pax Americana holds that if a law is not in keeping with the current junta's notion of what is legal they simply go around it as if it didn't even exist. Or change the law...
Government
For the last 40 years, America has lived George Orwell's worst nightmare. It was a bit more subtle than Orwell imagined, but our domination by powerful interests has been no less complete than the dystopian world the author described in...
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
If you haven't seen Food, Inc. and still eat at fast food restaurants, you might want to ignore this blog or skip the trailer as neither will make that McBurger sit any easier. The film was almost enough to make...
Food, Inc.
From 1919 to 1933, we conducted a national experiment in drug prohibition. The drug of choice at that time (besides marijuana and opium) was alcohol. The 18th Amendment made it illegal and sparked off a bloody war that only the...
Another Unconstitutional War
The Constitution is quite clear on matters of war. We were not meant to have an enormous, world-straddling military hegemony. What military we did possess was meant as a defense mechanism only and not a tool of global dominance. The...
An American Renaissance
In my previous post, I explored the notion that we live in a shared illusionary state that keeps us from truly understanding the reality of our situation. Americans have convinced ourselves that we have zero control over our country much...
Use Your Illusion II
In a country raised on blood and reared on myth, the notion that we are victims of a shared illusionary reality seems clear to me. America only likes mirrors when we are forcing other regimes to look into them at...
Use Your Illusion
29 One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Paine's Common Sense involves the notion of societal blessings weighed against the necessary evil of government to deliver those ends. Yet what happens when government becomes antithetical, or in our case inimical, to the...