Glacial Erratics

New White House Office Coordinates Global Communications

I've been trained. Everything the White House does these days my reaction is the same: I wonder "Don't these guys read? Don't they know that their actions are just the same as the evil fascists in the history books, and the fiction books, and the movies and on TV and, well, everywhere?"

It started for me with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Duh. Homeland. Racists and paranoid people have homelands.

And now, just looking around that website, I find the Citizen Preparedness Guide with self protection, reporting and shrubbery pruning advice all in lovely red, white and blue.

I realize I'm late entering the game here, but still...

Or maybe I'm just being naive, but I'm relatively certain that the naivety is what encourages striving for a better life and prevents me from closing and locking the doors, trimming the shrubs, and staring out the windows at my neighbors, wondering if that smoke is a barbeque or a bomb.