Thank you, America, for continuing to demonstrate the approximate collective intelligence of a stick figure or cartoon character. It is 2012. But out in the streets, it is a fictional time. No date at all. A twilight zone of propagada, ignorance, myopia, greed, hatred, fear and discrimination. A swarming storm of warring stupidities, whose fervor grows with any threat of unmasking. Election? Hardly. More like amputation. Of rights, intelligence, and the possibility of a desirable future. At least we will be appropriately charged for these abuses. Indeed, we shall be indicted for them even as we suffer their sequelae.