Do you?

IOZ has a screed about - surprise surprise - more arrogation of the forms of power, of formal authority itself, by the executive and the judiciary.

"Providing material support" can now include advising groups to not take up arms.

You know what will come of this, and the predictable outrage from Greenwald, Hamsher and the rest of the lefty word warriors?

Nothing.

The whole damned pyramid threatens to crumble, with the ruling classes falling the longest and the hardest. The oil empire approaches its collision with the hard fact of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and with the measurable, calculable, cold facts of the EROEI heading into negatives for the vast majority of us.

The ruling class - in its aggregate parts and its competing factions - needs us to suck up some austerity (the end result of the Gulf Oil Eruption will not follow as a demonstrable cleanup, but as clearly defined austerity measures, maskirovka'd as reform) and some authority.

Everything provides a pretext now. Idiot car "bombers." Deep ecos burning ski lodges. Grannies gathering to collect monies for Palestinian refugees. Tea Party drips and dolts. All of it.

In that light, considerable yourself expendable.

Unless you want to do something about all this.

Do you?