America Jones

These are difficult times and many of our leaders have a difficult job ahead of them. While Congress is busy summoning the proper demons req...

A recent article on Wired sparked a debate in the online comments section about the relative merits of evolution and popular intelligent de...

The reporting around the horrific events at Northwestern Illinois University has, as in past school shootings, focused on the grief of fami...

Often, when I enter a bar or a club to which I haven't previously been, I count the number of television screens. I frequently find the ...

There seems to be a lot of indifference in the United States regarding domestic surveillance. Perhaps this indifference is a result of a cit...

tertium quid mnemosyne janus

In response to Great Britain's formal request that the United States release five British residents from the Guantanamo Bay detention fa...

Dear Sen. X, With all respect, I appreciate your sincere desire to serve the Nation and our fine State of residence, but I have serious doub...

How might covert interests acting as a parasite within an authoritarian regime -- with access to trillions of military research dollars a...

Perhaps the days of the " Googlebomb " are drawing to a close. MySpace has begun to re-code outbound links from user pages in an e...

ad oculos: intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether. nihil obstat.

I recently came across some lumbering bit of bureaucratese called "Radiation Belt Remediation." Previously, I had only heard the w...

From the Proceedings of the Invisible Order of the Pythagorean Hydra 314.

To understand why the President is a puppet, it is important to think of the President as primarily a communications hub. The volume of sen...

I was reading a little bit about the US Cold War nuclear planning in the 1960's , and came across these two facts, which really struck m...

The best thing that might come to the United States from the War in Iraq is not oil, but an opportunity to examine the collective hallucinat...

I'm looking at this satellite image from Google of the US Embassy in Baghdad , and it occurs to me this world must be totally mad. 8-ye...

We are told that the War on Terror is a New Kind of War , and that the War in Iraq is the central front in this War. Why is it, then, that ...

Our multi-headed National Strategy for Victory in Iraq is organized around " Eight Pillars ." These "Eight Pillars" rep...

green to the cripple’s wilderness, a newcomer sees ash as soil... where abominations of animate stone lie senseless before the sea, far beyo...