are you evil?

there are several different ways to define evil. people who are truly evil are, in fact, mentally ill. there are various ways of describing what their mental condition is, such as being a sociopath, a psychopath, or antisocial personality disorder. it is important to note that a psychopath and a psychotic are completely different. psychopathy has nothing to do with psychosis. someone who is evil is generally classified as a sociopath, a psychopath, or someone with antisocial personality disorder. antisocial personality disorder is sometimes called dissocial personality disorder. anyway, mostly i want to link to a bunch of other sites about this shit, and also point out that the vast majority of great visionary leaders are sociopaths or psychopaths or people with antisocial personality disorder.

take this test. it tells you what personality disorders you have. warning: you probably have all of them! according to that test, i am pure evil and i am going to hell. i got “very high” in 2/3 of the categories. whoopie! now, if you are wondering how evil you are, look at your score for “antisocial”. for me, i only had “high” on that one, instead of “very high”. so i am not really that evil after all. here is another test, to see if you are a sociopath. according to that test, i am 88% sociopath, meaning, i am 88% pure evil. fun fun for everyone!

now here are some wikipedia articles: antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy. now here is an article that is apparently part of the curriculum a professor wrote for his criminal justice class, which covers it all quite well. here is a little web page about psychopaths. and here is a quite nice page that goes into detail about everything, with white text on a black background. beautiful! here is one about psychopaths in the context of bullies you run into at work. and here is someone posting on their blog about how republicans are sociopaths.

now if you are evil, you might be a big fan of the wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone can edit. there are all sorts of evil ways to use the wikipedia to your advantage. but why not start your own wikipedia? here are some others: sourcewatch.com is a wikipedia about politics and public relations stuff (it used to be called disinfopedia.org). simple english wikipedia is a wikipedia for people who no speak good engrish (it is rather boring). uncyclopedia.org is a parody wikipedia full of humor. encyclopedia dramatica is another parody wikipedia. dkosopedia.com is a wikipedia run by the daily kos, the #1 liberal blog. wikiality.com is a wikipedia run by stephen colbert fans (it is a pretty small site so far). and wikia.com is host to 2 THOUSAND wikipedias... just think of how many INTERNETS those wikipedias are all using. now why are these wikipedias so evil? heh heh heh... wouldn’t you like to know? just remember, anything you read on any of those wikipedias is true... guaranteed or your money back. oh wait, you didn’t pay anything? then good luck expecting any quality! next time pay more $$!!!

feeling depressed lately

i have been feeling pretty lousy lately. and my psychologist doesn’t even want to help me unless i pay his bills and show up to his appointments and follow his suggestions. basically, i am very very dissatisfied with my life, and basically dissatisfied with everything else too. i absolutely hate the way my life has turned out so far, and do not really see things getting any better in the future. i have asperger’s syndrome, which is apparently the same thing as high-functioning autism, or maybe not the same thing, depending on who you ask. so i don’t have social skills and can’t relate to other people and life is very difficult. it is very hard to make friends and i can’t get along with my parents even though i want to, and i don’t seem to ever have any success with the opposite sex, despite being very smart and good-looking and the nicest person ever. and it is very hard to get a good job because i am awful at job interviews, even though i have a degree from cornell with a double major in math and computer science, and was valedictorian, and i am a+ certified to fix computers. so i have a job, but i do not like it, not at all, not a bit. i hate working! i only had sex once, and did not like it that much, because i was not turned on enough to have an orgasm, since the whole thing was arranged in advance and it just seemed too fake and scripted, plus i was not attracted to my partner at all. i want to actually have sex that is good, by having it with someone i am attracted to, and actually having orgasms. and i have never had a girlfriend or anything like that. other people my age (some of them at least) are married and have kids! what the hell is up with that? it seems a lot of other people actually had sex when they were teenagers! pretty much everybody, in fact! that is why i hate myself so much, and oftentimes i wish i was never born, because i feel inferior to everyone else! now yes, i am a brilliant genius, but what the hell is intelligence anyway? it is merely a tool to be used, but in and of itself, it is nothing. intelligence serves no purpose if it is never applied to anything. and my intelligence is never applied to anything, despite the fact that i am probably smarter than 99.9% of people. instead my intelligence is like a tool that is left unused, out in a shed, forgotten about, gradually rusting away. i certainly used to be smarter than i am now! but i feel like my intelligence is draining away, like my brilliance and genius-level intellect are growing weaker and weaker every day. i have always been quite a miserable person and a complete pessimist, though. for quite a long time, i have had suicidal tendencies, although i have never actually attempted suicide. i am certain that if i actually attempted suicide, i would succeed, because i am not an idiot. if i decide i am going to do something, i want it to work, no ifs, ands, or buts. i do not like any uncertainty. that’s why it is hard for me to talk to girls or ask them out, because i do not like the uncertainty, plus just the subject of girls brings up such feelings of inferiority and patheticness that i just don’t even want to think about it most of the time. i mean, i do not see why someone would want to be around me if i am so miserable and pessimistic all the time. wouldn’t i just make everyone around me miserable too? so i have to act, and pretend not to be so miserable, which is even worse. why is it worse? because i am an honest person, and anything that is the least bit deceptive is completely abhorrent to me. i do not like the idea of pretending to be something i am not. but i cannot really relate to other people, since their lives are so much different from mine. i cannot see things from somebody else’s point of view, because i am not them, i am me. the very idea of seeing things from someone else’s point of view seems completely ludicrous to me. how on earth could i possibly expect to see things the way some other person does, unless i actually am that person, and have lived their life, and know firsthand what it is like to be them? that is the only way to possibly understand another person! to actually be them! oh, but people think they can understand each other anyway, or at least they try to. i have never actually seen this succeed, at least not in terms of me understanding anyone else, or anyone else understanding me. i have never understood anyone else, nor has anyone else understood me. often when i tell other people of my problems they have glib answers like “why don’t you just do this?” or other nonsense that completely belittles my problems and makes it seem like everything is my fault and that my problems are incredibly easy to solve. nobody seems to understand that whenever they suggest a change in my behavior, this does not make me feel better, but rather, makes me feel worse. i am not going to follow anyone’s advice! i do things the way i want to do them, not how other people tell me to do them. i am a creature of habit, and whenever i deviate from doing things the way i am used to doing them, i feel very anxious and apprehensive and it is just awful and i hate it. there are probably millions of things i could do, ways i could change my behavior, that would improve my life, but do i actually do any of them? yes, just a few. but most of them? hell no! it is simply not feasible! have you ever noticed how many fat people there are, or how many people there are who smoke cigarettes, or have other problems caused by their poor behavior patterns? you probably have some poor behavior patterns yourself, ones that cause problems for you! everyone does! we are all addicted to something, if not a drug, than perhaps, some sort of behavior or emotion. and i am a person whose overriding emotion in life is fear. fear is the most common emotion for me, the one that dominates my life, because i have an anxiety disorder, and i have panic attacks on a regular basis. and my anxiety causes a lot of physical changes in how my body operates, like it gives me diarrhea and gas, and it makes my hands feel tingly, and gives me chest pains sometimes, and makes me sweat profusely even when i am cold, and shiver when i am hot, oftentimes sweating and shivering at the same time. there is something called the “fight or flight response” that is activated in me every time i get panicky, and this happens to me all the time, so much so that it has become routine and i can deal with it perfectly fine since it has happened a million times before. but lately i have been eating a lot more food and gaining weight quite rapidly. i am now 10 pounds away from falling into the dreaded category of “obese” rather than my current categorization as “overweight”. and that was actually what the doctor said, like, a week ago, and i think i am even closer to being obese now. i should probably get more exercise, but i hate doing exercise. i hate the way exercise makes me feel. i hate how it exhausts me, the way it makes my muscles feel, the way it makes me breathe heavily, the way it makes my heart pound. so, i suppose light exercise is not as bad as vigorous exercise, which is the type i really hate. but, i am somewhat masochistic, and lots of times when i exercise, i deliberately do it vigorously, just to make myself miserable, because i know how much i hate it. and then after that i avoid exercising for a long time. i don’t know... i think i am just insane. and evil too. i am very evil. i mean, i just don’t give a rat’s ass about anyone but myself. you can all go to hell for all i care. i only care about myself. i have enough problems of my own to deal with, why should i bother myself with caring about anybody else’s problems? that would only add even more to the problems that are burdening me. there is so much death and violence and destruction in this world, so many horrible things going on, that i simply cannot bother to care too much about it anymore, because if i did care about it, if i did feel badly for all of the people who have bad things happen to them, the pain and suffering would just be so overwhelming that it would be impossible for me to go on living for another nanosecond. now i realize that i am probably economically better off than most people in the world, and probably am much luckier, especially with my intelligence and good education and all. but really... who the fuck cares? my life sucks, and most other people also have lives that suck, apparently. most of them would do a much better job at living my life than i do, if they were gifted with the same talents as me, and given the same advantages (ignoring for the moment all of my disadvantages). but if you gave someone else my disadvantages, and none of my advantages... well they would probably be dead by now. at least i am still alive, and there is still (theoretically) some chance that my life will improve. actually, it is pretty much guaranteed that my life will improve, if you are from the school of thought that says that once you hit rock bottom, there is nowhere to go but up. being a pessimist, i tend to think that things always get worse, and then just when you think they are so bad that they could not possibly get any worse, they actually do get worse, in fact, much, much worse. maybe i am just completely batshit insane. i probably am. but for some reason, society has not seen fit to lock me up in an institution for the criminally insane. perhaps they should reconsider. who knows? i mean, when i watch movies, i tend to like the villains better than the heroes, even though the villains are such 2-dimensional evil personalities, and there never seems to be any logical explanation for their thirst for destruction. for some reason the villains in the movies just seem to be a hell of a lot cooler than the heroes, and then when the heroes finally defeat them in the end, i am kind of bummed out, because i was rooting for the evil side to win. i dunno. maybe i am just evil or something. i hope so. because evil people kick ass. lots of times the heroes have problems, just like i have problems, and it does not seem like they will be able to triumph over adversity, because the villains are so much more powerful. how lame! the heroes should just give up and let the evil villains triumph! that would be better! a hell of a lot more like reality, anyway... in the real world, the evil villains always triumph. i mean, lately, world leaders like george w. bush, mahmoud ahmadenijad, and hugo chavez have been in a sort of pissing match to see who is the evillest, and each of them is trying to out-evil the others. bush violates the laws and constitution and then wants congress to pass a new law legitimizing torture even though he justified war with iraq because saddam hussein had torture chambers and killed people. mahmoud ahmadenijad lies and says he only wants nuclear power plants, not nuclear weapons, and wants to wipe israel off the map, and says the holocaust never happened, all while aggressively pushing ahead with his nuclear weapons campaign, and conducting a p.r. offensive by having every major news outlet in the entire world get an interview with him. and hugo chavez goes around and buddies up with all the evillest dictators in the world, becoming best friends with them, to form an evil alliance against the united states, all because he read in some book by noam chomsky that the united states is an evil imperialist power, but hugo chavez is so dumb, he thinks noam chomsky is dead, and then when they interview noam chomsky, he says he likes hugo chavez and would like to meet him. craziness! but i just think the eviller you get, the more you kick ass. because as a pessimist, i see things getting worse all the time, and you might as well be in the driver’s seat, and be the one actively making things worse, rather than being the victim of someone else making things worse for you. i mean, the idea of things getting better, that is just laughable! ha ha! we thought things were better after the soviet union fell! yeah right! look what a mess things are now! at least back then, there were just 2 superpowers, and things were somewhat under control, since everyone either sided with one of them or with the other. now, everything is just f.u.b.a.r., or fucked up beyond all recognition. at least the prime minister of hungary gets it! he admitted to being a liar and not having any positive accomplishments, in all the years his party has been in power! now that is the kind of person we need in public office, the kind who screws things up completely, and then actually admits to it! that is the kind of politician to support! if only president bush would admit to being a shit-for-brains and completely screwing up everything in the entire world, then i could vote to re-elect him to a third term in 2008! at least i would be voting for someone honest for a change! why do we even bother punishing criminals and sending them to jail? we ought to just give them medals and awards, lavishing praise upon the most successful criminals! oh wait, that is what we do right now! sorry about the mix-up! anyway, life sucks and then you die! so does that make death good? no! death is even worse! death is so mind-bogglingly bad, horrible, awful, and terrible, it somehow makes life look good in comparison! the only people who enjoy death are already dead, and good riddance! they were idiots, because death is bad! smart people like good things and don’t like bad things! but i am a complete pessimist, so my view of reality is decidedly unamerican, as americans are an optimistic people! i do not even belong in the united states, what with my pessimism and all! why, pessimists like me ought to be locked up in guantanamo bay for treason! everyone must be happy and smiling, or you will be executed! that reminds me of borat, the #2 television reporter in kazakhstan! he has made a movie, and if it does not do well and make a profit, kazakhstan will execute him! that is a fact; i saw it in the movie trailer! i like borat very much, because i have a thing for former soviet republics. all the corruption, oppression, crime, poverty, and nuclear weapons being sold to the highest bidder... it is the way the entire world ought to be! humanity is destroying itself, and we are destroying this planet... so why not do it as quickly and efficiently as possible, if we are going down that road? get the job done, get it over with, so our planet can move on, and some hyperintelligent alien race can take over and clean up the mess our stupid species leaves behind! ha ha! as if aliens would even bother caring about a stupid planet like this! most aliens probably wouldn’t even come here on a bet! they probably just send naughty aliens here to punish them, using our planet as a prison, much like the british did with australia! that is probably where the human race comes from! our ancestors were the scum of all the other planets, the lowest of the low, and the aliens wanted to be rid of them, so they sent our ancestors here to earth! that also explains all the other species like animals, that are too dumb to even think! of course i am simply joking; i do not believe any of this. this lengthy diatribe is getting rather ridiculous at this point. anyway, i have been feeling depressed lately, but not all of the time. sometimes i am in fact happy, and enjoying things. my mood swings are quite odd. but it seems when i am in a bad mood, i am in a really, really, really, really bad mood. and then, a few hours later, for no apparent reason, i am feeling perfectly fine. it is so utterly bizarre. sometimes it just seems like all of my problems disappear and everything is fine. i suppose i just like to ignore reality, and avoid having to deal with things. that is my main strategy in coping with problems, actually. i just think that if i ignore something long enough, and avoid dealing with it, maybe it will go away and the problem will just somehow magically solve itself. when it comes to getting a girlfriend or getting laid, this avoidance tactic does not seem to work. i don’t exactly understand why. don’t girls all have psychic powers? why can’t they simply read my mind, and then out of the goodness of their hearts, proposition me for sex? of course i am being facetious, and simply spouting ridiculous nonsense. but at some level, that nonsense is the type of crap i have to actually believe, at a subconscious level, in order to justify my inaction, to justify how i avoid dealing with things. i have to not only avoid dealing with reality, but actually believe in things that are patently false, just in order to avoid complete despair. everything i do, i have to justify to myself, and somehow, even when i do something that is totally wrong or retarded, i find a way to justify that i acted the way i should have. and sometimes, the only way to justify things is to come up with ridiculous supernatural explanations for things, although, to be honest, i am fully aware of the fact that all supernatural mumbo-jumbo is entirely false, and this physical universe of matter and energy is all that exists, and the laws of the universe are unchanging and eternal. but reality is boring and dehumanizing and depressing, so why do we need to acknowledge it, anyway? what we believe is entirely irrelevant, as we are mortal beings that, according to the laws of the universe, are guaranteed to be completely destroyed at some point in the future. why must we have beliefs which are correct or correspond to reality, if these beliefs do not make us feel good? why not just believe in patently false supernatural crap, then? at some level, i think there is a case to be made for believing in things that are obviously false, but on another level, i think it does more harm than good, since it ruins our abilities to logically reason about things. logical reasoning is simply a tool to start with some basic assumptions or known facts, and use these to come to some conclusions, to actually figure some stuff out. but the conclusions are only valid if the assumptions are valid and if every step of the logical reasoning sequence is valid. in other words, the conclusions are hardly ever valid, because almost everyone messes up at least somewhere along the way; it is human nature to screw up, and our minds are hardwired to do that. so why even bother thinking, or wondering about anything, and why not just go out there and do things? why not just live? take action? avoid use of your mind’s capacity for reflective thought? that is how most people operate, but i am different. different on an almost fundamental level. my mind does not have an on/off switch; it is always on, always thinking about the great questions of philosophy, always thinking about my personal problems, always thinking about hot girls, always thinking about video games i want to play, always monitoring the status of my bodily processes and whether i am hungry, thirsty, need to go to the bathroom, need to sleep, or am having a panic attack and need to calm down. perhaps i worry too much about problems, and this may be the cause of anxiety. maybe i think too much. i suppose it helps that i am vocalizing my thoughts on this blog, because perhaps if someone reads them, someone might actually have something helpful and productive to say, something meaningful and profound, yet very applicable and useful. but i doubt anyone who reads this is that good at solving problems. strangely enough, i am excellent at solving problems, if they are the right type of problems, and if i focus on them one at a time and devote my full attention to only one of them at a time. but all too often i fall into the trap of worrying about a bunch of different problems at once, or worrying about a problem that i could not possibly fix at the time i am worrying about it (like certain problems can only be solved if you are at home, or in your car, or during certain times of the day, or in the presence of certain other people, etc.). and i lack the organizational skills to keep track of everything; i basically make a mess of everything and have no clue what is going on because i forget about things that are important. this is probably because i try to solve problems by avoiding them and pretending they do not exist. according to logic, if the assumptions i start with are the basic laws of the universe, it is a pretty obvious conclusion that problems do not magically solve themselves if you avoid doing anything about them. i do not know exactly how one would conclusively prove that as a theorem, but it is such an obvious truth that there is really no reason to prove it anyway. logic is simply a distraction, because it takes too long. the same is true of mathematics, which is another tool that is quite useful, but in and of itself, serves no purpose, except when it is applied to solve a problem that is within its realm. as a mathematician, i do actually enjoy mathematics to a certain extent, but that is precisely because it is a means of avoiding having to deal with reality, and instead i can think about abstract concepts that consume a sufficient amount of brain activity to distract me from my problems and make me feel better. but yeah, i am happy sometimes, actually. i am not always miserable. actually, i used to think i was like a robot and did not even believe i had emotions like other people. that was just what i thought when i was a little kid, back in elementary school or something. anyway i am going to get a doggy soon, probably. i went to the dog pound earlier this week and looked at the dogs, with my mom along too. and there was only one dog that had been there long enough to be available for adoption. the others were still waiting for owners to pick them up. anyway, cats are evil. they are the spawn of satan. i still have a cat scratch on my right hand from a few weeks ago and it has not healed yet. cats always seem to have problems with me, because i bother them too much. i keep coming up to them and trying to pet them even though they don’t want me around. basically, i do not care what they think, and want to pet them since they are cute-looking fuzzy animals, and eventually they get so pissed they attack me and i get scratched up. so i am kind of wary about hot girls, because they are probably even more vicious than cats, if you bug them too much. maybe if someone else actually liked me... but i do not see why anyone ever would like me. i mean, i don’t even like myself, so why would anyone else? but i do like small furry animals. it is odd that the squirrels and bunny rabbits are all so afraid of me, just like kittie cats. apparently small furry animals all suffer from anxiety disorders, and they get a fight-or-flight response when around humans that are much larger than them. maybe they need that to survive. i don’t know. but it would be nice if there were more small furry animals that liked to be around people and were not afraid of us, ones that could be kept as pets. there are all sorts of animals where i live. there are even groundhogs and deer that come into my backyard all the time. and so many types of birds and insects! i hate insects and spiders. i mass-murder insects and spiders all the time. just outside the entrance to where i work, i massacred 5 spiders about a week ago, and dismantled their elaborate spiderweb infrastructure. the spiders have not returned since then. but there are bats nearby. there are bats in the parking garage where i park my car when i go to work. i don’t like them; they are very creepy and annoying. and a lot of spiders on the ceiling, too. except i can’t reach the ceiling since it is like 20 feet above me. the bats are kind of small. they are hard to tell apart from large moths, especially for someone like me who has bad distance perception. it is hard for me to tell how far away something is, visually. i am third dimensionally disabled. so i was always bad at sports because of my dimensional disability; the 2-dimensional images from my 2 eyes would both combine into a single 2-dimensional image, and somehow the extra 3rd dimension would get lost in the process. i am getting better at this, luckily, especially since i started wearing glasses at age 18. i had been avoiding them earlier because i wanted to avoid taking on any of the stereotyped aspects of a nerd, such as having glasses. in high school, i was obsessed with trying not to fit into the role of a nerd, since i seemed to have all the characteristics of one. that might have been part of why i had no friends, since i did not want to be associated with anyone else who was unpopular, and tried to surround myself with people who were much much more popular than me, who would order me around and make me their slave. i had to help everyone who was popular cheat on tests and do their homework for them, and got nothing at all in return. i guess that was kind of dumb of me. and they got laid all the time and i didn’t. i sure hated high school. i even viewed being valedictorian negatively, i thought it was the ultimate dishonor, the biggest insult, that i was the biggest bookworm geek nerd dweeb egghead misfit loser, so much so that i wasted all my time doing my work and studying hard and getting the highest grades in all my classes. i tend to look at everything negatively. but i like dogs. they are stupid and do whatever you tell them, and can’t talk, and you can do pretty much anything to them and they won’t care, and will still love you unconditionally. in a way i wish people were a lot more like dogs. i know some dogs are bad-tempered and actually do care if you do certain things, like wake them up or mess with them when they are eating. but the dog i had, she was hardly ever upset by anything. that is the kind of dog i want, one that is never upset by anything, one that simply accepts things whatever happens, and who is friendly to everyone, even suspicious strangers. anyway, i was pleased to hear about the military coup in thailand, since i do not believe in democracy anymore. it would be nice to have a military coup in the united states of america. i am sure that the generals would do a better job running the country than our current civilian leadership. who else agrees with me? everyone? good! because anyone who does not will be executed for treason, once the generals take over in the military coup. and all the retired generals who have jobs as consultants for cnn and other news outlets? they would get their jobs back as generals, and become part of the military dictatorship. and the commander-in-chief? i think general wesley clark would do a good job as our military dictator. i mean, michael moore supported him in the 2004 democratic primaries, so he must be good. which general do you think would do the best job as our military dictator? think about it. then once we find out which general has the most public support, we can help organize mass public protests in favor of a military coup, and ending our stupid democracy once and for all. once we have a military dictatorship, our country will be unified, and all of the partisan bickering between democrats and republicans will become a thing of the past, once all political activity is outlawed and the entire nation is put under martian law. then when the martians come from outer space, our nation will graciously accept their leadership, and there will be a seamless transition, with martian law already in place. our alien space masters will prove adept at managing our affairs on this pathetic excuse for a planet we call earth, issuing command directives from martian headquarters, in the inner core of mars. hmm. maybe i should get a haircut or something. i want to go play video games or something. i wonder what is on tv. if i were a normal person, i would be out clubbing in an hour or two, and hook up with a hot girl and get laid. i wonder why i do not behave that way. why am i so reserved and cautious in my personal life? maybe because i am a big fatty fat fatass. i need to lose some weight, before i weigh so much that every building i enter suffers permanent structural damage. if i get too fat, every step i take would cause an earthquake, and when i spoke, hurricanes would come out of my mouth. whenever i took a crap, soon after, new islands would be discovered. if i sneezed, any birds flying in front of me would be launched into outer space. i would exhale so much carbon dioxide, my lungs would be responsible for 73% of global warming. anyway, talk to y’all later. keep it real. peace.

republicans are stupid

you might not realize this, but republicans are very, very stupid. they win elections, yes. but, their iq’s tend to be pretty low. you can tell how bad they are at logical thinking if you go to republican political websites and read the crap they post online. ok, you say, i am making absurd generalizations about a large group of people without sufficient justification. who cares? here is some circumstantial evidence to back my claim:

“I can't tell you how many people are beleaguered with seemingly insurmountable problems. ... What to do? ... How obvious it all is. And yet so many of us miss it all the time. ... It is all so simple: Ask and you shall receive. It does indeed work. ... All you have to do is talk to God; explain your situation simply and then ask God for help. Period. Then relax and forget your problem and stop worrying because worrying does not help anything or anyone. ... It is indeed simple. Too bad so many people miss this essential key to a happy life. If you think you are missing out, take the plunge and try talking to God. He will hear you - and He will help you. Guaranteed.”
- John LeBoutillier, at newsmax.com

my response: ok, so you talk to your magical genie and tell him what you want, and all your problems magically disappear? wow! great! it must be fun for you, living in a fantasy world. so you could just ask god to pay off your credit card debt, and god would pay the bill? you can just ask for god to end the problem of terrorism and make the world peaceful? i wonder what the world would look like if god granted all the wishes people prayed for... a lot different than it looks like now. so, it looks as if your little god either does not exist, or is deliberately ignoring your requests. why is it that small-minded religious folk always have to come up with a supernatural explanation for everyday occurrences, things that can be explained rationally and scientifically? it is so mind-bogglingly ridiculous, i can’t believe anyone takes religion seriously in this day and age.

“Opinion polls, of dubious veracity themselves, are allowed to go unchallenged, thus becoming their own self-fulfilling prophesies that the president is going down the pipes. The leftist "mainstream" media have abandoned all pretext of accuracy and objectivity, now daily making up bogus anti-Bush stories, trying to outdo one another in venality. While all that's been going on, what counterpunches has the president landed? None that come to mind.”
- John L. Perry, at newsmax.com

my response: ok moron, first of all, you right-wingers never questioned the validity of opinion polls back when bush had sky-high approval ratings after 9/11. when the public agrees with you on an issue, you go around bragging about it to everybody. newsmax.com conducts its own unscientific opinion polls all the time, of which almost all the respondents are ultra-right-wingers who frequent that site on a regular basis, and then tries to get major media outlets to broadcast its dubious poll results. but then there are dozens of independently done nationwide polls that all reach very similar results, and are done in a much more scientific fashion, and some newsmax.com blowhard like you is hypocritically saying that those polls are somehow wrong. well then get your own website to stop doing unscientific polls, if you are so concerned about the issue of polls being invalid. and if you knew statistics, and were mathematically literate, you might have a better understanding of the scientific and statistical basis for polls, and why they are indeed quite accurate (rarely if ever off by more than 5 percentage points). but it looks like you are just some hare-brained conspiracy theorist who thinks all the pollsters are liars and liberals in disguise, who have it in for the president, which is the most ridiculous conspiracy theory in the entire world. do you have any idea how hard that would be, to have a conspiracy of the type you are discussing, of all the pollsters? that shows that you have no grip on reality. and you think the mainstream media is left-wing. oh great. so does that include fox news or right-wing talk radio? how about abc? remember how abc put out that pro-bush anti-clinton movie about 9/11? and cbs? so far, katie couric has been a pro-bush right-wing apologist, and has given free airtime to rush limbaugh of all people! and how about nbc and its sister networks msnbc and cnbc? well cnbc, the financial news network, is unabashedly pro-free-markets and pro-republican. msnbc gave mike savage, a far-right-wing extremist, his own show, where his blatant racism was so over-the-top, it got him fired; they also cancelled a show hosted by liberal phil donahue, in their first experiment with having a liberal host, despite it having higher ratings than anything else on their network. and msnbc still has more right-wing hosts like tucker carlson, joe scarborough, and pat buchanan, than liberals like keith olbermann. and how about cnn and headline news? well, headline news is giving a 1-hour show every night to glenn beck, a folksy right-wing man of the people with a positive demeanor; headline news putting a friendly face on right-wingers and conservatives is a free gift to the republican party. there was only really one show on cnn that featured people who were partisan liberal democrats who spoke their mind; it was called crossfire, and gave equal time to conservative republicans too. and it was cancelled, after jon stewart, of all people, criticised it for dumbing down tv and lowering the level of political discourse. so apparently dan rather at cbs may have been a bit liberal, so the right-wingers tarred and feathered him, and got rid of him. yet people like ann coulter who openly call for mass murder are still allowed on tv and sell millions of books. yeah... what a liberal media. a guy named eric alterman wrote an entire book debunking the myth of the liberal media, by the way. i read it. very factual. unlike the drivel you find by conservative pundits who post on newsmax.com.

well, so far i have just talked about newsmax.com. umm. ok. where else? how about littlegreenfootballs.com? that is another horrible little right-wing site. littlegreenfootballs.com is basically a blog for rabid right-wingers who think everything is a conspiracy, and who really really really really really really really hate muslims. every so often, they “unmask” a “conspiracy”, like at this link, where they talk about this guy that they nicknamed “green helmet” who was allegedly a relief worker in the qana massacre in lebanon, where the israeli defense forces dropped a bomb and killed a large number of innocent civilians (i am not sure of the precise figure, and don’t really feel like looking it up right now, but i think it is somewhere around 30 or something like that). yeah, and they have a video of him supposedly acting like a movie director in some kind of cynical media manipulation, to make the massacre look more horrific, or something like that. this is what they are reduced to. originally they were trying to claim that the qana massacre was a hoax, or that the victims were purposefully planted in that building by the terrorists, or some other such nonsense, to escape from the reality that their beloved israel had just killed a bunch of innocent people, because that reality was too horrifying for their precious little minds to bear. so, they were going around, grasping at straws, trying to find some kind of conspiracy, any kind of conspiracy, just to try to put the blame on anyone but the israelis for what happened in qana. eventually they decided to pin the blame on this guy who is dressed as a relief worker and tells people he is a relief worker, who, they are convinced, is actually a hezbollah operative who engages in cynical media manipulation to make israel look bad and hezbollah look good. yeah. so what? so what if hezbollah had some guy trying to manipulate the media? does that change the fact that israel bombed a bunch of innocent people to smithereens? hell no! and guess who else engages in media manipulation? the united states! (not 100% sure that article i just linked to is accurate, but nothing is certain in life, and anyway, our government does media manipulation whether that article is true or not.) so, we are supposed to be able to do media manipulation, but not let any of our adversaries use the same propaganda tactics? propaganda is reserved for us and not them? is that it? if right-wingers are so opposed to media manipulation and propaganda, as they evidently are in the case of this “green helmet” dude, why don’t they ever get upset when our own government manipulates our own media, such as in the run-up to the war in iraq?

and here is some stupidity from the national review. they think that for “fairness”, we need to index the capital gains tax to inflation, i.e., basically they are just trying to pass another tax cut for the rich. now, how about a reality check? since the republicans came to power in congress in 1994, they have passed tax cuts for the rich, time and time again. every time, it was a tax cut that would mainly benefit those who are extremely wealthy, and have little to no impact on the vast majority of americans. bill clinton veoted those tax cuts for the rich, but george w. bush signed them all into law, and the republicans’ never-ending greed forces them to keep passing more and more tax cuts for the rich, all the time. the estate tax, the capital gains tax, the income tax, and a whole lot of other lesser-known taxes, all of them are targeted if they take any sort of significant bite out of the pockets of our wealthiest citizens. now is a time when we are in a deep financial hole as a country, with sky-high national debt and deficits. and who is bearing the cost of this? the poor! the wealthy are making more money than ever, with the forbes top 400 now entirely composed of billionaires. ceos of companies can basically name their own price when it comes to salary, and the sky is the limit. meanwhile, for ordinary people, for the median family, the standard of living has constantly gone down throughout the years of the dubya regime. hardly any of the tax breaks affect ordinary people. ordinary people mainly pay sales taxes and payroll taxes, both of which are regressive taxes. regressive taxes are not cut; in fact they are often raised by republicans. instead, republicans cut progressive taxes like the progressive income tax, in order to make sure rich people pay as little taxes as possible. now, the math of this is quite simple. the federal government costs a certain amount of money each year, and this is paid for through taxes. some of the tax revenue comes from the poor, some from the middle class, and some from the wealthy. republicans systematically have been reducing the share paid by the wealthy and increasing the share paid by the poor, which has resulted in greater poverty as well as more super-wealthy people. all very predictable results. you see, taxation is a zero-sum game. you cannot help one person without hurting someone else. so, in this time when our wealthiest citizens are doing ridiculously well, with hundreds of billionaires out there, why can we not simply have some common decency and ask the billionaires to pay their fair share? it is not like they need the money! sure, they might devote it to philanthropy, but then again, they might not. the only way we can know for sure what happens to the money is if we take it and spend it ourselves, which is why we ought to do exactly that. republican efforts to eliminate the estate tax (which they call the “death tax” in a creepy use of orwellian new-speak) are even worse, because they not only want people to be able to make unlimited amounts of money, but to be able to pass it on for unlimited numbers of generations without being taxed at all. basically what this means is, they want to create a hereditary aristocracy like that which existed in europe during the feudal ages. in fact, such an aristocracy already exists (witness the spectacle of paris hilton or of our president to see the effects of aristocratic inbreeding). this is because republicans sincerely believe that rich people are better than everyone else, and are entitled to keep all of their money, as some sort of fundamental right handed down from on high, that we are never supposed to question. they do not believe in equality, but rather in some sort of caste system, where the rich are the highest caste, and the poor are the lowest caste. why is bush trying to implement a guest-worker program? for cheap labor! now indexing the capital gains tax to inflation could save rich people money, so why don’t we index the minimum wage to inflation? republicans would never index the minimum wage to inflation, because they want inflation to continue to reduce the value of the minimum wage, until it is essentially worthless. republicans view people who work at the minimum wage as inferior and somehow subhuman, and do not think they are worthy of being paid any more than what they are being paid now. the fact is, they are being paid so little because of competition from cheap labor overseas. human labor is extremely cheap now, thanks to overpopulation and the international free trade agreements. “pro-life” republicans do not think that every person deserves enough money to live their own life. would they ever implement universal health care? hell no! they think poor people deserve to die if they get sick, and do not want to have to pay a penny if it would go towards helping anyone less fortunate than themselves. such is the greed of the republicans. what is stupid is how obvious they make it to everyone. i mean, in their medicare prescription drug law they passed (by bribing and bullying their own congressmen), it prohibited the government from negotiating lower prices for drugs it purchased in bulk from pharmaceuticals. what the hell is more retarded than that rip-off? i can go to the local store and by one can of soda for 99 cents, or a 12-pack of cans of soda, for 5 bucks (those are rough estimates). you get a better deal if you buy in bulk. that is, if you aren’t a complete retard. but the republicans prohibit the federal government from getting any sort of bulk discounts from pharmaceuticals, even though everyone other than the federal government can negotiate whatever sort of bulk discount deal they want. no wonder private corporations are more efficient than the government! republicans pass laws prohibiting the government from being more efficient or cutting costs, and refuse to allow anyone to pass any laws that would improve things in the slightest! the government is not inefficient because it is a government; it is inefficient because its leaders want it that way. they overcharge the taxpayers for government services, siphoning off the extra money into large corporations. corporate profits are inflated for all companies doing business with the government, because there are always sweetheart deals to defraud taxpayers and send our tax dollars into the pockets of the ceos rather than the poor people who need the money. just look at all the no-bid contracts in iraq, for halliburton and other companies! it is such a scandalous system, corrupt to its very core. and republicans are stupid because they think the american people are dumb enough to fall for their bullshit, again and again, one election after another, and never learn to put 2 and 2 together. they think we are all morons, and we will fall for anything they say! well guess what! some of us are less moronic than others! and i am one of them! the less-moronic ones, i mean. i don’t mean that i am not moronic at all, because as a human, i am prone to human fallibility, and we are really all morons at some level. but, i consider myself less of a moron than the average bloke.

ok, anyway, so if republicans are dumb, how come they still win elections? well, i think one of the main reasons is religion. it is plain as day that all religions are false, yet billions of fools continue to believe in them. this shows that the vast majority of people have severe difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality, fact and fiction. religion teaches people to be irrational and not develop any critical thinking skills, and if someone does develop some critical thinking skills, they are taught to strictly limit the scope of what they are allowed to apply their critical thinking skills to. only apply critical thinking skills to things you already disagree with, people learn. but people are not taught to doubt what they themselves believe; instead they are taught to have the intellectual arrogance to claim that they know what is true and that all who disagree are clearly wrong. now of course, i have this same sort of intellectual arrogance, but in my case, it is well justified, because i can back up the things i believe in with logical argument, and i can demolish any argument by those who disagree with me, with my superior logic. but most people are quite illogical, and i must admit, i am quite illogical too, at least from a behavioral standpoint, even if i can make logical arguments that sound cogent. now when someone criticizes my behavior, oftentimes i have no recourse than to resort to tomfoolery, to change the subject, to use flawed or illogical arguments because there are no logical ones that would work. it is rather embarrassing and unbecoming of one with the gift of logical argument, to have to resort to saying such illogical things. but, my gift only works sometimes and not at other times, apparently, and i do not have much control over the on/off switch. i suppose that is what it is like, for any person. but when the facts are not on my side i am often forced to resort to emotional appeals, or to at least have an emotional outburst of my own, since i am pretty ineffective at manipulating the emotions of anyone else. emotions are the most illogical part of the human psyche, and it is regretful that i continue to be so childish in my behavior. i suppose there is nothing that can be done, other than actually doing something, but that is just a tautology. and tautologies are always true, which is why i believe in them. because something which is true can never be false. even republicans can understand something as simple as that.

but it never ceases to amaze me how often republicans use “liberal” as an insult and try to insinuate that liberals are “out of the mainstream” and have no chance in ever getting elected. no democrat would ever say things like that about conservatives. i mean, the right-wing ultra-conservatives who control all 3 branches of the federal government are out of the mainstream, yes. but they still manage to win elections on a fairly regular basis, somehow. i am not exactly sure why. this phenomenon needs to be researched more closely. anyway, the public agrees with liberals and disagrees with conservatives on most issues. yet more people call themselves conservatives than liberals. and no liberal would ever say that conservatives can never win elections. oh, they can win, and they do win, but not always, and they are evil, and they must be stopped. what is so stupid about them is their complete lack of understanding of what a liberal is. they think hillary clinton is a liberal, and are amazed that a lot of liberals feel betrayed by her pro-war stance and think she is too conservative. as if conservatives never have litmus tests for their own candidates, or never try to enforce right-wing ideological rigidity in the republican party by eliminating moderates? but i am not sure the idea of a so-called “mainstream” is even relevant anymore. society is so fragmented and polarized, i think there are multiple competing mainstreams, each trying to establish itself as the one and only mainstream. but what is the point of bragging about how many millions of people you have managed to brainwash through the mass media, anyway? that is all that discussions of a mainstream ever mean, anyway. and when they talk about historical failures of liberals in elections (most notably presidential ones in the 70s and 80s), this is a scare tactic and has absolutely no bearing on reality. things are much different now than they were in the 70s and 80s, and the fact is, society is polarized now along partisan lines, with democrats currently more popular than republicans, despite republicans controlling all 3 branches of government. the real purpose of this scare tactic is to goad the democrats into having centrist or even right-wing presidential nominees, or to at least minimize how liberal the nominees are. this is because republicans simply hate liberalism, because they hate anything their simple minds cannot understand. they were able to entirely dismiss everything in the movie fahrenheit 9/11 as either irrelevant or incorrect in their view of the universe, simply by making ad hominem attacks against michael moore, and questioning the things that they think are implied in the movie that are not even stated in words. plus they had point-counterpoint things where they would counter the facts stated in his movie with the lies they believe in that they were told by the bush administration or fox news. granted, the movie was a 1-sided polemical propaganda movie, but it was quite factual and accurate, using a lot of real footage of actual events, which was not doctored at all, other than having michael moore do a voice-over and have some music playing in the background. besides, everything these days is 1-sided and polemical, at least if it comes from someone like me, or anyone else who is the least bit partisan when it comes to politics. anyone who acts evenhanded or pretends to be fair and balanced is really being dishonest with how they conduct themselves, if they have any relevant deeply-held beliefs that they keep hidden. that type of covert bias is the hardest to detect, and it causes the most damage; people ought to be honest about their beliefs, because if someone is not honest about what they believe, how can you trust them to honestly report the facts? transparency is key, and since news reporters demand transparency from others, they ought to demonstrate it themselves. michael moore is a person who, at least, is honest enough to actually say what he thinks and not pretend to be unbiased. that is how all people ought to conduct themselves. now you might ask, what about ann coulter, doesn’t she say what she really thinks? and the answer is, no, i don’t think so, i think it is all an act, and she is a phony. she has admitted as such to her friends, and while she might really believe in conservatism or really support republicans, it is clearly not in as emphatic and dogmatic a way as she presents herself in the public arena. she is putting on an act to a certain extent, in the exact same way stephen colbert does on his show, except for her, acting is more serious and less of an obvious mockery. instead, she tries to outrage people to generate hype and sell more books, to make more money and promote her career as a high-status idiot. i don’t think all of the republican bush apologists really believe what they say; they could not possibly be so out of touch with reality. they are just trying to help their side win, even when they know they are wrong and the other side is right. and that is not what i do, nor is it something i can abide by. the truth must be preeminent. period.

a nice day

well i went to a picnic at otsiningo park with the international students from broome community college. very nice! it was a good time. i am starting to think, maybe my asperger’s syndrome is gradually going away. i started re-reading the book i have all about asperger’s, and while i totally fit the profile of someone with it like a glove as a child and a teenager, my social development since i graduated high school, went to college, and graduated it, well it has been nothing short of remarkable, compared to other people who have my syndrome. i mean sure, i am not the world’s biggest people person, and i do not have many friends, and still get nervous in certain social situations. but you know what? nowadays, i have found that being late to my job is actually a lot more stressful than talking to a young lady. it seems i have lost all my fear of young ladies, and now realize how harmless they all are. and i think my lack of social skills was really a lack of confidence, a belief that i had no social skills that was brainwashed into me from a young age. i actually do know what to do in social situations, and i always did know, it was just that i was too fearful to act accordingly. well maybe i did not always know. i think perhaps it is more of a recent development. i think maybe this has to do with the lonelygirl15 phenomenon on youtube. you see, if there is a lonelygirl15, there are at least 14 other lonely girls that also exist. but, apparently lonelygirl15 was actually a hoax, all along. i should have known! what kind of girl would be lonely anyway? not the kind who is 15 and on youtube! all she would have to do is join myspace and she could have hundreds of child molesters, fresh out of prison, ready to be her best friends! anyway, the lord spake unto me. not the lord you are thinking of. no, i am talking about the lord of the manor i live in. you see, i live in medieval europe, and i am a serf. ok, ok, i made all that crap up. but serf is a funny word, right? like do serfs ever go surfing? english is such a retarded language. oh and today at the picnic i got into a minor argument with someone from, i think, the dominican republic, who was saying that spanish has more words in it than english. i was like, no, you just don’t know all the words in english, but there are lots of them. but, it was hard for me to make my case persuasively, because the person i was arguing with didn’t know english, so we were arguing in spanish. kind of a funny story eh? yeah, now i ask questions that end with eh because i decided to be canadian for a change eh? oh and i finished up fixing another computer, after the picnic. basically just installed firefox, upgraded ms office, and installed a good antivirus (symantec antivirus corporate edition, which is decent). oh and i had to reinstall browser plugins like flash and shockwave and java and quicktime alternative and real alternative, plus i copied windows media plugin files into firefox and opera plugin directories. it’s an old windows 98 computer. i did upgrade it to 2nd edition, and then installed the unofficial service pack 2.1a, among other enhancements. well to be honest i did dozens and dozens of enhancements, i can’t really help myself. it has tweak ui, the latest directx, windows installer 2.0, and of course lots of codecs. i am just insane, what can i say? now since it is someone else’s computer, i didn’t install any beta or unstable software, of course. i reserve that type of stuff for my own computer and my parents’ computer. but the windows registry was deleted when i reinstalled windows, and the new registry forgot everything, so all the programs had to be reinstalled. i actually reinstalled windows and most of the programs like 2 weeks ago, and i was just finishing the job today. i did not actually have time to complete it tonight. the office update website is too slow. 60-something megabytes of huge-ass downloads for upgrading office xp for better security and such. and after it downloads them, it takes forever to install. after 1 hour or so, i decided it was time for me to leave. the progress bar was still moving and the hard disk sounded like it was actively involved in installing the updates, but it had been like that for an hour. why does it take 10 times as long to install updates to office xp as it does to install office xp on a computer that does not even have office at all? i just did not have the time to wait around for that slow-ass computer to get all that shit done. it is hard to upgrade stuff on old, slow computers, because it takes forever to do anything on them. but i did have a nice day. you know, i like the ladies a lot. it is funny about them. why is it that ladies tend to be such nice people? i don’t get it. they look pretty, their behavior is very nice, and very sexy and i want one as a girlfriend. so why am i or was i afraid to talk or whatever? maybe i am stupid in the brain, because my head fell out the other side of my ass that it was so far up inside because of the mind disease? my apologies. i am trying to do the humor, to have the bad grammar and say stupid things, for to be funny, as you surely realize all grammatical errors in this blog are intentional and for comedic purposes, as are many things that i say. anyway, i am wondering, why is it that girls are so awesome and great and i love them all so much? what kind of non-existent god would make that happen, all whilst denying his own existence? as i say to my friend boris, “99% of the public are complete and utter morons. you and me, we’re part of the elite 1% of people who have some form of primitive intelligence that only occasionally surfaces, and who are basically morons the rest of the time.” of course, j.r. “bob” dobbs puts it even more eloquently in this quote: “You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of ’em are even dumber than THAT.” anyway, suffice it to say that, i, despite my genius, continue to be outwitted by a cat. or rather, i continue to be sucked into thinking that the cat won’t scratch my skin open because it looks cute and cuddly, and then when i go near the cat in question... well... the cat doesn’t like me but it is hard for the cat to get me to leave it alone. that cat belongs to the family whose house i was at, fixing a computer, or rather, upgrading its software. i am going to buy a dog soon. well. today i got the phone number of 2 girls who are roommates, and hopefully i will get phone numbers of some more girls in the future. and this time i got it legitimately, by asking them, instead of by looking at some place where they wrote it down for someone else or whatever. you see, i cannot bring myself to contact someone if i obtained any of their contact information in a way that is anything remotely unethical. i generally just contact people who gave me their contact information. like, if i happen to find out what a pretty girl’s phone number is, but not from her telling it to me directly, it is not something i can use, so i won’t. i just try to act as ethically as possible in romantic matters, because then at least one aspect of my life will be ethical. i am actually ethically disabled, because of my addiction to evil. i just enjoy being bad and doing things i know are wrong. as long as nobody gets hurt and it is just good clean fun. but despite my enjoyment of evil, i try and keep my evilness to a minimum, because i feel quite guilty about it. like i still have a rather childish attitude towards rules and laws, and i really feel i need to outgrow it, but i am having trouble changing my way of thinking. i still feel like rules are meant to be broken, and it is more fun to violate the law than to obey it. and on some level, i admire criminals more than i admire law-abiding citizens who play by the rules. i mean, it takes a lot of courage to stand up to the entire socioeconomic/political system and violate all its rules, knowing that there are very bad consequences if you get caught. why are criminals always portrayed as the bad guys, and police as the good guys? if we had no laws it would be chaos and it would be horrible and the law of the jungle, and life would be nasty, brutish, and short, of course. so we need to have laws and enforce them. but i dunno. i do not really have 100% negative feelings towards criminals like i am supposed to have, as a law-abiding citizen. and to be honest, i am not so sure i am always 100% law-abiding either, but i don’t know anyone who is. for crying out loud, driving faster than the speed limit is illegal. so on that basis alone, i probably commit crime every day. and did you know assault is not actually hitting someone, assault is just a threat, and battery is the actual attacking? and who hasn’t committed assault on numerous occasions, by threatening violence against other people? why, assault is a vital tool in parenting, in raising a child! oh well. another silly crime like assault or speeding, something we do all the time, is conspiracy. conspiracy is just whenever 2 or more people get together and agree to do something that is either illegal, or that they think might be illegal (it can actually be something illegal). so if i, a 24-year-old, had premarital sex with a woman who is above the age of consent, but we both were misinformed and thought premarital sex was illegal, then we would be violating the law against conspiracy, because we had conspired to do something we thought was illegal. it is really quite a ridiculous law. in fact, we would not even have to have sex, we would just have to agree to have sex, premeditated, with the belief that it is illegal. so, what does this mean? if you think something is illegal, it is. by definition. in practice they just use conspiracy against white collar crime and mob bosses, luckily. but if they actually enforced all the laws on the books, you and i and everyone else would be in jail for all sorts of ridiculous things we do every day without thinking. still, it was a nice day today. my shoes did get kind of muddy. i am pretty sleepy now. i suppose this is a time i ought to already have been asleep for quite awhile. i would rehash some tired old excuse here but my mind is too foggy to think of anything coherent. but a pretty girl told me today that i am pretty good looking for someone who is 24, and she is like, 21 i think. i did not manage to get her phone number, but she was well endowed, if you understand my reference to what assets a fictional deity may have endowed unto her bosom, or whatever i am talking about, because i forgot. anyway, i like females so much, i was thinking of becoming one. or maybe that would be dumb, because i am a male, and that might ruin my chances of scoring with the females. but i just like them sooooooooo much, i just think it would kick so much ass to actually be a woman, instead of just fantasize about them all the time. maybe i am just crazy or something, but i think women are superior to men. and this in no way contradicts what i said earlier about 99% of people being complete morons. i am just saying, superior means higher and inferior means lower, and the height at which tits are on the female body is higher than where the dick is on the male body, so since the part of females that sticks out is superior to the part of males that sticks out, you can simply state as a fact that women are superior to men. wow. i sure say some crazy things. i guess that just proves how totally awesome i am. heil bush!

the bush administration is a criminal conspiracy

do you know what “criminal conspiracy” means, in a legal sense? according to findlaw.com:

A criminal conspiracy exists when two or more people agree to commit almost any unlawful act, then take some action toward its completion. The action taken need not itself be a crime, but it must indicate that those involved in the conspiracy knew of the plan and intended to break the law. One person may be charged with and convicted of both conspiracy and the underlying crime based on the same circumstances.

For example, Andy, Dan, and Alice plan a bank robbery. They 1) visit the bank first to assess security, 2) pool their money and buy a gun together, and 3) write a demand letter. All three can be charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, regardless of whether the robbery itself is actually attempted or completed.

interesting, eh? so, when bush and his friends decided to violate the geneva conventions and use torture and detain people indefinitely without trial and without treating them in accordance with the rules that international law requires for prisoners of war, and when bush and his friends decided to violate the bill of rights and the fisa law and do wiretaps without warrants or any court approval, in both of those cases, the bush administration was, according to how the law is defined, a criminal conspiracy. so, from now on, instead of calling it an “administration”, let’s just call it “the bush criminal conspiracy”. other people sometimes like to call it “the bush crime family”, but i think that is demeaning towards the president’s father, and also excludes all of the criminals in the bush administration of today. just remember, if you are an executive branch federal government employee, you are serving as a low-level operative of the world’s largest criminal conspiracy. and if you pay taxes, you are actually paying protection money to the people that you need to be protected against. the greatest threat to our nation does not come from terrorists or from anyone outside our borders; it comes from within. we need to defend america against itself, because the only enemy powerful enough and devious enough to defeat the united states of america is the united states of america. as the world’s only superpower, we cannot take any chances when we decide who should be in charge of all that super power. and yet, every election is a chance, a gamble. someday, our luck will run out. at least we can be thankful that bush has failed so catastrophically as president. he would have been much more dangerous to our nation if he had actually succeeded in enacting all of his agenda. he is probably not much of a threat any longer, because of his low poll numbers. but future presidents could be like him, in the ways in which he is bad, except much, much worse. there is no foolproof mechanism to prevent a psychotic genocidal sociopath from becoming president, and it will probably happen someday, just like adolf hitler got elected in germany. george w. bush turned out not to be another hitler, but someday we will almost certainly have our hitler, except one even worse than hitler, because of the tremendous devastation that could be caused by a renegade madman who is president of the united states. let us try and prevent that from happening, at least in our lifetimes.