The US is basically embarking on an adventure which is the first instance of a new foreign policy doctrine that alleges we have the right to intervene anywhere in the world for any reason, as long as we can trump up charges that there are bad people there--a doctrine which is ten times, no, a hundred times, more open to abuse than the anti-communist doctrine was. And we're doing it without a significant national debate about whether this is what we should be doing, and why.

Part of me feels like this must be a hallucination, a nightmare, a great national fever-dream that will pass . . .

I weep for the difference between what my country is and what it could have been, and weep even more in fear for what it is going to become.

Yes. I do, too. My gut discernment is we are calling judgment down upon our heads.
3:31:13 PM |  See also war iraq congress   

I'm a screen fan from way back; trying its ethos in X using ratpoison or ion or whatever sounds like fun. (Les turned me on to ion's kin, pwm, a while back; I keep waffling between it and icewm here in XDarwin via fink.)
2:53:40 PM |  See also antidesktop screen pwm ion xdarwin fink