As the six-month anniversary of the September 11th attacks approaches, and as Bush's War on Terror continues unabated, we would do well to consider carefully the definition of victory. In the days after the Towers fell, we were promised the heads of Osama bin Laden and his followers. We were told our enemies attacked us because they despised our freedoms. We were promised the nation would become a safer, more secure place. redefining the threat
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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