Greetings

Welcome to my new blog.

For some time now, I have been noticing that the country I have loved so much throughout my life is undergoing a disturbing set of changes. Little by little, the freedoms, privacy and basic fairness I had taken for granted as part of my experience of being an American citizen are starting to melt away. As I watch these developments, I have felt the need to chronicle and comment upon them, partially in order to try to make sense of them myself.

Periodically, I will post links that I have collected that I have categorized in the following ways:

• Political Corruption - Observations of how the rights of individuals have begun to lose ground in favor of the lust for power and cash.
• Corporate Corruption - Observations of how the corporate "Masters of the Universe" have so distorted the basic underpinnings of capitalism that we are about to become beggars upon our own shores.
• Religious Fanaticism - Observations on how religious fundamentalism have started a hegemonic push of agendas of ignorance and fear.
• Fascism - Observations on how the growth of governmental control at all levels (federal, state and local) may be pushing us towards that well-known Orwellian dystopia we have learned to fear for so long.

I don't make any guarantees about how long this blog will last. This is the first time I have done something like this. I don't normally have the attention span to put my thoughts down in print, so this may be a flash in the pan. But I will try to keep it going, as I said, if only for my attempt to explain to myself what, how and why our world seems to be going wrong.

I will intentionally keep the details of who I am fairly light. I don't have any illusions of perfect privacy, but I also don't see the point in making too easy to be persecuted for what I write here, in the event our world truly does begin to spin out of control.