Who Were the Sea Peoples?

We have now made three attempts to get a post box here in Milford -- we can't receive mail at our house's mailbox, because the postman doesn't deliver to our side of the street -- and each has failed due to insufficient documentation. This is a private mail drop center, but the requirements are placed on tghem by the Patriot Act, etc. If Americans can receive mail anywhere they want, the terrorists have already won!

I snooze on a mattress Stuffed with the dried husks of cicadas Their lifeless shells crunching beneath me As I toss restlessly on the waves Of Gregor's troubled dreams

town officials have declared the procedure manual for the four local constables to be top secret. That's right, if the residents of Lumberland can know the rules the constables they are paying are following, then the terrorists have already won.

A recent headline in my local paper here in Milford, PA read: "Report Shows Studies Are Often Flawed." In a few years, I expect we'll see sommething like, "Meta-meta-meta-meta-level study concludes that meta-meta-meta-level studies no better than meta-meta-level studies."

Over on LewRockwell.com, my friend Mike Cust and I pen an article about pot activist Marc Emery. He's facing extradition into the U.S. for selling marijuana seeds on the internet to Americans. It's likely, should he be deprorted, that he will get life in prison. The piece is entitled " Block the extradition of a hero for liberty ." Here is an excerpt: It is because of his long career of activism that the DEA is targeting him. Unlike other seed merchants who quietly conduct their affairs, Emery puts the brunt of his efforts into the movement to end the prohibition of marijuana and to legitimate the culture that has emerged surrounding the plant. Since the prohibition of drugs is a multi-billion dollar affair, we shouldn't be surprised. Drug cops, prosecutors, judges, politicians, prison construction contractors, companies that use cheap prison labour, and military firms that sell weapons and surveillance equipment to drug law enforcement are all significantly enric...

Another chapter in my Summer of Anarchy...

"Iraq continues to be the most dangerous country in the world in which to work as a journalist." Read the rest .