Just made the mistake of turning on CNN again. Still the same tired video of ninjaqaedas on monkey bars, the same "experts" projecting angst over whether we are "safe", the same pundits suggesting we have not yet sufficiently expanded government and internal intelligence to save the American Way.

Nary a hint of a suggestion of a curiosity regarding how and why foreign policies of United States provoke desperate, murderous, and suicidal rage on an increasing scale.

We just don't get it. I fear we will continue bankrupting and isolating ourselves, losing understanding, becoming ever more paranoid until, until (more after these messages)- *Click*

NEWS BULLETIN!!!

An Iraqi secret weapon was unearthed today on a farm north of baghdad. Film at 11:00. Sorry waders the news is so dam depressing I just had to cheer myself up.

The horror! There is surely enough toxin in that hideous war wagon to wipe out Mayberry! And it's obviously ready to mobilize in 45 minutes!!!

That's always the way it's been. Since before civilization. Aggression, destruction, ahnihilation, despair--the trademarks of sentient life. Only now, with nuclear weapons, the possibility for ultimate catastrophe is increased exponentially. Should humanity weather this crisis of ours (we live arguably in the most important and decisive timeperiod in the history of the mammalian kingdom), the benefits could be great. Faith in the masses is hard to come by, however.