People,

Brendo Frendo and I saw Control Room, a documentary about bias in war reporting that centers on Al Jazeera, yesterday. You should see it. You should also see Farenheit 9/11 and read Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack. After that, you should go vote for John Kerry.

This country is driving me literally crazy. I, and I think a significant percentage of the populace, feel that we aren't being listened to or told the truth, that atrocities are being committed in our names and that these chickens will come home to roost in very bad ways. This scares me pretty badly.

But it seems to not be enough for us to be afraid for legitimate reasons. Our government actually wants us to be even more scared and this really pisses me off. The color coded terror index makes me want to scream. Listen Mr. President, you can't have it both ways. Either tell Americans to live their lives as they normally do and have the CIA move to take threats out before they materialize or get your ass on TV and say "there appears to be a plot to bomb a building in New York in the first week of August." I am so tired of reading headlines like "Al Qaida planning major attack that will make 9/11 look like a scraped knee: Americans urged to go grocery shopping and not worry." I mean, come on.

I almost feel like the Bush administration are the characters near the end of The Lord of the Flies, just waiting for the navy to show up and give them a reality check.

I don't know, I guess I have no real point. I just came in this morning and read a news story about the elections in November possibly being delayed because of terrorism, with no specifics given. It just makes me want to scream.