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March 24, 2005When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Turn ProThe flood of depressing headlines in my mailbox every morning is overwhelming, and sometimes the only escape I can find is into the realm of the surreal. Confronted today by a New York Times article that describes the disaffeciton of some CIA analysts (who feel that they're under pressure from the Bush regime to provide skewed information in support of Bush's views and policies), I could either go reread George Orwell ("Politics and the English Language," 1946) and weep, or turn to the weird and wonderful distraction of the following web sites. US Department of Art and Technology: An agency of the progressive virtual shadow government of the United States, with "responsibilities for U.S. aesthetic matters and for the socio-cultural impact of technology as explored in the artistic investigations of the media arts. Within the Executive Branch, the US Department of Art and Technology is the lead U.S. cultural agency, and the Secretary is the President's principal art and technology adviser. The Department advances U.S. objectives and interests in shaping a freer, more visionary, and more utopian world through its primary role in developing and implementing the Secretary's policy on art and technology. The Department also provides an array of important services to U.S. citizens and to foreigners seeking to visit or navigate through virtual environments." Posted by kalital at 11:16 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 8, 2005Horror Writers Are TerroristsI swore I wouldn't write any more about U.S. politics but this is just too much. Read about the kid jailed for writing a short story about zombies attacking a school. Posted by kalital at 2:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack |
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