By the way, take a look at this. It's abdundantly obvious that the US is becoming a virtual dictatorship, but is it too much to ask for the Department of Homeland Security to lay off the swastika motif?
I was browsing Barnes & Noble the other day and found the official US guide to resisting terrorist attacks. It's an overproduced mass-market paperback and goes for a cool $10. Is it just me, or shouldn't the government be falling all over itself to hand this information out for free? It can be argued that the same information contained in the book is available via Internet, but there's the "digital divide" to consider; not everyone has easy Net access. Hell, I own a computer and live in more or less constant fear that it's going to crash just when I need it most. In the event of a nuclear attack, computers are going to be lobotomized by the EMP blast anyway.
"What? No more ESPN?"
This isn't to say that the hints contained in the book are all that useful. Or even intelligible. For example, here's a sagely bit of Bush Administration advice in case of a terrorist nuclear attack: "Use available information to assess the situation." Well, what else are you going to do? Use unavailable infomation? Isn't that logically impossible?
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