The Mouse has returned! I had a few things to think about and spent a year doing just that. The experiment that was the United States of America has "jumped the shark". The corporatards and banker elites who were kept at bay until the Reagan presidency have regained control in such an overwhelming manner that it is time to push the Reset button and start over. All branches of our government have been sold to the highest bidder. Intellect has been demonized by the ruling .01%; The uneducated religious zealots have been conditioned to support the ultra-conservative, puppets of the rich, psuedo-representatives we call congressmen and senators at the expense of their own well being. Profit is god at the expense of the earth and its inhabitants; perpetual war is the business model of the new world economy. We thought a black president would change the paradigm. It did not. Protest is now un-American. Telling the truth about our governments' lies and illegal actions is now treason. Security of those in power trumps the Constitution. Democracy is dead. The permanent corporate fascist oligarchy will remain no matter how you vote. It's time to retreat. Go back to the commune. Grow your own food. Learn to hide. Practice peace but learn to defend yourselves. Keep libraries. Live as though the world was collapsing around you, because it is. Practice your art, play music, write music, write stories, tell stories, learn to survive. I never though it would come to this, really. Good was supposed to overcome evil but it didn't. Not yet, anyway. I would like to think positive, that today's technology will unite us and give us a communal voice that will make a difference, that the internet will remain free and knowledge shared by everyone. Let's continue to evolve just to piss them off.