With all the conspiracy theories and talk of secrecy the administration has now taken a different strategy… Reverse psychology. This is a clip from the most reliable source of White House policy… Fox News.

In light of the current political debate over proper diplomatic technique I have provided for you the answer to this question in the form of excerpts taken from one of the most successful political advisers in all of political history, that of Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu , adviser to Louis the XIII.

Chapter 6, the need for continuous negotiations in diplomacy.
States receive so much benefit from uninterrupted negotiations, if they are conducted with prudence, that it is unbelievable unless it is known from experience. I am now so convinced of its validity that I dare say emphatically that it is absolutely necessary to the well-being of the state to negotiate ceaselessly, either in open or secretly, and in all places, even in those from which no present fruits are reaped and still more in those for which no future prospects as yet seem likely.

Beginning the latest installment of ‘Really?” we have a quote illuminating the fact that Octopi instinctively intend to preserve Korean art history: “… it meant for us to discover the artefacts.”

Next, more justification for dropping the A-bomb… and by that I do mean mushroom cloud

Another story suggests that Oscar the cat predicts death in a nursing home. I propose that the cat is more likely to be the grim reaper.

You could spend all day on this site so here is a best-of… but don’t take my word for it.

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While renovating my friend’s newly purchased house i found a hidden copy of an 1805 hardback origionally printed in 1795. The name of the book is The Spirit of Despotism, written by Vicesimus Knox. The book was written in 1795 when Britain was leading the Coalition of monarchies in a war against the French Revolution, this is Knox’s warning that war against a foreign enemy helps create despotic government at home.

It may actually have been handed to me by God himself or it may have been some other sort of destiny. The book is of the utmost relevance in light of the current shifting political dynamics of our governmental structure as well as the controversial civil rights infringements in the news today relating to the war in Iraq.The book is fragile but intact including handwritten names and prices of several purchasers, as well as a printed list of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Deleware suscribers of the book organized by counties. The list of names includes the name Robert Drummond of Monmouth County; this is the name of my grandfather & father, he resided in the neighboring county to the one my father grew up in, and is likely my ancestor.

The current highly charged international political climate and the rapidity with which changes of epic proportion are made has provided me with a sense that my role as an individual deserves further reflection.
I’m now 23. Yesterday for the first time, sitting down with my mother (52?), I somehow felt like a peer. I guess I’ve come across enough bullshit in my life to connect with her on that basic level. Talking about the advance of technology brought further realizations. For one, there is a generation younger than myself. Across the modern world they have access to a world of technology and resources that were only first becoming available to a priviliged few during the time of our childhood. There was a time when we were that younger generation with new technology and resources but those were not as developed and as widely available.

Now who wants the same shit from Monday to Sunday
Some may, but some way, it’s gonna stop some day
Through my window sometimes I see visions
Of battalions and civilians and can’t tell who are the villains

Its easier not to be wise
And measure these things by your brains
I sank into eden with you
Alone in the church by and by

there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore.
there is a society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar:

air…air
hit me in the face
i run faster
faster into the air
(i say to myself)

It can’t be. The american dream has shifted far away from opportunities created through protestant work ethic and wholesome values. This land of opportunity seems more aptly defined by the powerball lottery. The cornerstone of the american economy has shifted from family owned businesses toward corporate gas-stations, hand-in-pocket with franchised convenience stores selling strictly poisoinous vices: junk food, sodas, alcohol, tobacco, and lotto, and a variety of worthless trinkets. Our freedom to enter the capitalist market for the sake of future family generations is now often rejected for the freedom to become fat, lazy, selfish, and hopefully lotto-lucky if we hope to be able to afford the medical costs associated with our new lifestyle. So keep on dreaming in your sugar induced comas, cause america will never be the same.

Call Me America, I love War. I can’t help it, but I’m practically obsessed with War. It’s Wartime, Baby!! Lets Go…. We got ourselves a Wartime President, a handfull of smoldering foreign Wars, threat of bigger Wars with even more Warlike countries. Thats all that was really important in history class anyway, right: Wars and Presidents? While were on a roll lets take the War on home…. War on drugs, War on poverty, War on Christmas, War on the middle class, War on the environment, or fight the AIDS War. Any Suggestions?

December 19th : The “I’ve-fallen-and-I-can’t-get-up!” commercial first airs, 1985.