Wow. Just wow.

5: Let’s Explore The Possibility of an Open Source Monetary System.
6: Let’s End Corporate Personhood and Other Rules that Unfairly Advantage Corporations.

Wow. Just wow. Someone with actual readership is now saying these things I’ve been saying for almost 7 years now.

I’m thrilled!

I have to disagree with R.U. Serius’s proposed solution: starting a third party. No, I think these ideas need to be pushed into the party of the people, the Democratic party, through grassroots effort. I personally believe we have to reclaim our party from big-money corporate lobbyists, first, before there’s any hope of reclaiming the country from them.

But I will support those two efforts– overturning corproate personhood and creating open-source money systems– with everything I’ve got.

Right-wing apologetics for inefficient government

This one is beautiful. Here is an ultra-right-wing libertarian “stink tank”, defending an inefficient and incompetent government agency wasting taxpayer dollars.

James Jay Carafano, a domestic security expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said TSA critics might have unrealistic expectations. “The system is never going to be perfect, it’s never going to stop everything,” he said.

Of course. It’s perfectly OK for the gummint to waste your tax dollars, as long as it’s Bush and the Repugs doing the wasting.

These clowns have gone beyond being parodies of themselves, to a whole new level of meta-satire.

Where I fit in this model

In this world, there are leaders, there are followers, and there is roadkill.

At this stage in my life, I’ve discovered I’m definitely not a leader– though I tried for a long time. And I’ve never been, nor will I ever be, much of a follower.

The remainder explains my lot in life, nearly all of my history, and presents a future with a level of inevitability that makes me feel surprisingly comfortable and content.