After decades of putting it off, here's my first post to American Samizdat.
Say you wanted to explain to someone--who has totally absorbed the CNN/Fox news produced unreal fantasy world where the capitalists won't even take your money to show your "anti-war" ads--how a war with Iraq could easily balloon into World War III, replete with bio and nuclear attacks. And yet, you thought, if only I could do it with Flash.
This is why I love the Internet. Unfortunately, my favorite shows tend to be cancelled. Let's all root root root for public telcos folks...
"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."