anamnesis

and here's what happened next... Creativity. We got that going for us.

GLENN GREENWALD: ... Let’s just quickly describe in the most dispassionate terms, as few of euphemisms, as possible, where we are and what has happened over the last eight years. We have a law in place that says it is a felony offense punishable by five years in prison or a $10,000 fine to eavesdrop on American citizens without warrants. We have laws in place that say that it is a felony punishable by decades in prison to subject detainees in our custody to treatment that violates the Geneva Conventions or that is inhumane or coercive. We know that the president and his top aides have violated these laws. The facts are indisputable that they’ve done so. And yet as a country, as a political class, we’re deciding basically in unison that the president and our highest political officials are free to break the most serious laws that we have, that our citizens have enacted, with complete impunity, without consequences, without being held accountable under the law. And when you juxtapose t

Watched "Wanted" again last night. I like it. I bought it. At the end of the movie the protagonist (using the term loosely) turns to the camera and says... " what the *bleep* have YOU done lately?!" So far (twice now) this phrase predictably fired off three little jolts in my head, like three firecrackers chained together and some big Stoogie lit the short fuse of the first one with that statement. The noise attracts two tribes on horseback that meet at the corpus callosum. The scary guys in their war paint, disciplined, intent on their purpose, oblivious to "comfort zones" who carry one creed: act. And the mongol-gypsies who show up to see what the noise was about, whose creed is it is more important to be than to do and distrust anything smacking of rigidity. The warriors, never quite satisfied, who can't figure out how to consistently achieve their agendas and the mongols, who want to be satisfied, just with who they are, but fall back into the habi