and one time in band camp

See these images. This is pretty much the surreality I experience when reading glib historiography, or for that matter, newspapers. Or the surreality that stands above, or beside, the narratives that compose our "moment" in the history that is not even a nightmare from which awakening can occur.

And,

Mr. Squarks meditates on the odds of producing a robust public wiki.

And,

Is there nothing about Mr. Rove that isn't appalling? See this interesting account of the golden ass - or the gold bars up the arse - of his attorney.

And,

"Globalism is yesterday's tomorrow." - Clusterfuck Kunstler's take on Friedman is essential. Friedman's trendline futurology is a symptom of the historiography that keeps anyone from actually living together in something like the present.