I can think of only one reason why drugs such as marijuana, mushrooms, and lsd are illegal: they cause people to think differently. They open minds to new possibilities, and they make people question the status quo. If you are in doubt of this just consider the drugs that are legal in America. Caffeine is probably the most widely used drug in this country. Caffeine keeps people focused on and attentive to the mind-numbingly boring tasks that are most jobs in this country. Without caffeine america couldn’t function and it is found in a myriad of beverages and is the basis of an enormous industry.

Alcohol is second on the list. It is definitely more harmful than marijuana, it leads to many instances of violence, rape, and death. It stupefies people, making them short-sighted and belligerent. In essence it turns people in to stereotypical dumb Americans: violent and childish and incapable of intelligent thought. I have no doubt that alcohol influences the discourse and general attitude in this country to a large degree. Can you imagine how different America would be if we smoked as much pot as we drank alcohol?

It had been a long, dirty campaign. Henrietta Rhodes Crenshaw had fought a tough battle against Jebediah Brier. Jebidiah was the brother of Gerry Brier, the current president. Their family had something of a modern American dynasty going on. Gerry Brier senior had been president for four years. He was the predecessor to Bob Crenshaw, Henrietta’s husband. He was president for eight years. It’s a little disturbing how all the presidents of the past 20 years came from only two families, and the next four were to as well. They claimed it was a democracy but it was clearly not so. Only the rich and powerful were elected, the system was corrupt. But I digress. Henrietta had won the election, she was to be the first female president in the history of the United States, and Bob was to be the first first man.

Henrietta Rhodes Crenshaw was dead eight weeks later. She was killed along with her running mate. They were at a celebratory rally and a bomb went off, killing 8 people and wounding 42 others. People suspected the republicans, and indeed the evidence might have been incriminating had the FBI bothered to conduct a real investigation. The official word from the Brier administration was that it was a cowardly act of terrorism.

People weren’t sure what to do, no law had been written for this contingency. The president and vice-president elect had been killed two weeks before inauguration day. All the people who were supposed to be next in line were appointed officials, and none of them had been officially appointed yet. The country was in chaos. No one knew who was going to be in charge after January 20th. But the date was fast approaching and a decision had to be made…

Opening a letter bomb with a light saber
So you can feel the force.
Ashes and anthrax
Slowly settle on unused technology.
The age has come to invoke
Catastrophe on the sand people.

Keeping in line with with my partners in crime I have decided to write a Haiku demonstrating how I feel about this post.

Superconductors
Energy revolution
Spinning like sprewells

If anyone is unfamiliar with Hip hop culture sprewells are the popular “rims” for cars that have independent spokes that continue to spin once the car has stopped moving. It is reported that these rims make fellow members of the black community “act the fool” when they view them for the first time, as they are truly “the hot shit.” But that’s not what this post is about, not at all. Well maybe a little.

As many people know fusion technology is the next step in the development of energy alternatives. It is totally clean, renewable, and eventually will be the cheapest form of energy available in the world. Just to look at some numbers, a pure fusion reaction produces energy 7 orders of magnitude greater then a typical chemical reaction (a power plant burning coal for example) and more then two orders of magnitude greater then a nuclear fission. Percentage wise fusion produces 16000% more energy per kilogram then fission and an astounding 10300000% more energy then a typical chemical reaction. WHAT!?!?! That’s more then ten million times the energy produced then what produces 80% of the worlds energy. So what’s the problem? Why don’t we get this awesome power in our hands right now? Well there are problems, mainly economic and some technical problems concerning our actual ability to apply what we already can do with fusion to a viable energy producing plant.

The S.N.A.F.U principle states that true communication is only possible between equals (Are you as open with your boss as you are with your friends? No, of course not, nobody is). This being the case, it is inevitable that any bureaucracy will fuck up, and fuck up often, because the people at the top are completely out of touch with reality. Any message that has to make it’s way through the bureaucracy gets permuted on the way to the top, like a game of telephone. And this explains why situation normal is all fucked up.