Now this could be fun, especially if you have a family:

Your Heimatssicherheitsabteilung — sorry, DHS — is considering having airlines issue shock bracelets instead of boarding passes. You’d put these on, they’d have all your travel and personal info encoded into them, and if there was any trouble, they’d work like a taser: just push a button in the cockpit or in the flight marshal’s pocket and you’d be immobilized for several minutes, writhing like a slug in salt. Now then: this is not a joke. There are people in your government pulling down big salaries who think this might be a good idea. There’s even a manufacturer’s promotional video (see link).

Bush surrendered America to the terrorists years ago. He had help, of course, and most of them are still in Congress. I would have asked, “Why the hell are people willing to take their own lives to hurt us?” and gone from there. Notably, no one did, so here we are. If the country were applying for a job, any employer with half a brain would toss the resume in the garbage can.

I think a lot of people would wear these bracelets. Just look at what they already accept without protest! The reason I mention this is that this is where we are. I see and ask myself, where do I invest my physical and psychic energy? Looking deeper, mainly. Understanding myself. Absorbing the truth of Nature where there is no need for “answers.” Listening to my heart.

Hey! Wait a minute. Since I’d be doing all that anyway, it hardly matters what else happens, does it??

Well, sure it does, because I help create it, and that tells me things.

[BZZZT!]