2008 will not be a tipping point. The battle is just beginning.

But honestly, I can't even figure out how MT managed to revert me back to January 30th, yet again! And all the old side navigation bars showed up! I mean, the whole left column reappears, along with the old bio. I don't even know where that fucking data comes from!

EDIT: Here we are at the other side, version 3.35. I'll be fiddling with templates later.

EDIT: Man, I can't get my template junk to work right.

The Justice Department, denouncing as "radical" a Fourth Circuit Court ruling rejecting presidential authority to seize and detain a civilian captured inside the U.S., asked the Circuit Court on Wednesday to rehear the case en banc, and to overturn it swiftly.

Yes, how dare the courts have the audacity to deny the president kingly powers. Any citizen should be detained by the president, if he suspects they are a terrorist. Habeas corpus, schmabeas corpus. We're in a fucking war on terror! 9/11 changed everything.

The terrorists could be anywhere! They made the whole world a battlefield, and thus, we must take the battle to them, wherever they may be. I bet the liberal-commie-traitors would love for terrorists to be able to hide on our own soil. I bet they'd love for terrorists to hide behind our ancient liberties and constitutional safeguards. I can't decide whether I hate them more, or the terrorists.

This could also be a problem if I decide to become a public figure of some sort. One cannot help but be a moron at 20 years old, and I do not want those moronic things preserved on the internets for all to see. A simple slip of judgment can be a disaster.

Things I have said can be easily taken out of context, especially when that context can sometimes be my entire life (or my personal growth during my teenage years.) I believe that people are smart enough to recognize context, but they have to be given that context in the first place. I won't be able to defend myself.

Of course, certain public persons have recovered from much worse than I can ever do, but I do not have the skills to attempt such a recovery.

So maybe it's best if I become anonymous, so I can do what I want to do. Alternatively, I can make this weblog private, but that doesn't solve the Chalkboard Manifesto problem. Furthermore, there's still the risk that information will leak out even from a private weblog. Writing under pseudonym will not sate my vanity, but that may be the price of freedom.

I'm undecided whether I should really go anonymous, but I'm certainly leaning in that direction. While it may be a tragedy to possibly erase this weblog from existence, I will at least keep records for myself.

Which opens the door to a Swiftian modest proposal, one that might appeal to any billionaire independent presidential candidate who knows the art of a deal: Rather than try to win the White House outright — a long shot — an independent candidate could instead try for a king-making (or queen-making) bloc of votes in the Electoral College.

John Swift's original "A Modest Proposal" satirically referred to eating Irish babies. So, I'm kind of confused about how this is Swiftian -- unless my satire-detector is completely off. Yeah, it's a Swiftian modest proposal, if you also believe that Alanis Morissette understands the word "ironic."

[Disclaimer: I am only harping on one thing. I make no other claims about the article, the author, or the media, or whatever.]

I stumbled on your comic "do you know why we're in Iraq" and am having difficulty understanding.

Do you mean to say that Iraq is a diversion from the proposed North American Union?

Do you think "conspiracy theorists" is a functional way to describe someone? What does it mean?

Ps. learn more about 9/11

After a laugh, I sent this thoughtful reply:

North American Union? Don't make me laugh.

The American military invasion of Canada is imminent.

Speaking of keeping things clean, I have something totally unrelated to say. I'm going to be hunting for a new moniker over the next few weeks. This may even end up with me getting a new domain or something.

Ah! What new heights we reach in political discourse!

AHAHAHA! Man, these people are totally clueless. The Republican Party is ripping itself apart. It's going to be great to see these poison-spewers unleash their poison words upon each other.

EDIT: Geeze, I know, I sound like a liberal, but I'm sick of Rove-style politics, and I'll be glad to see certain elements of the party attack each other.

I agree with your June 12 opinion piece in the Washington Post, except for three words: "abusive interrogation techniques." The English language already has a word for that: torture.