9:34 pm CST
We left Austin on Friday evening, traveling north on I-35 to Dallas. We encountered the usual number of maniac drivers—people risking theirs and everyone else's lives to save a few seconds—but we are accustomed to maniacs on the road,  and have somehow always managed to make it to our destination despite them, so why should this time be any different?

Somewhere on the north side of Waco, I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a white, mid-sized sedan coming towards us at a high rate of speed, changing back and forth from one lane to another, whether there was sufficient room or not, in order to pass every car as fast as it could. This was of course done at considerable peril to everyone on the road. But there is a positive side to everything, and in this case the positive side was that the driver was saving himself many seconds of precious time.

Moments later, the car passed us and shot ahead, zigging and zagging through the traffic, and was soon out of sight.

But, in a little while, we caught up with him. It seems that he had reached a point on the road where the traffic was so heavy he could not find space to change lanes. Thus, not only had he lost all the seconds he had previously gained, but now he was in danger of losing an additional five seconds waiting for a lane to open so he could pass another car.

Whereupon he did the logical thing. He swerved onto the right shoulder to pass all the cars.

This was a brilliant move, and had it not been for the disabled eighteen-wheeler parked on the shoulder he might have regained all those lost seconds, and then some. However, not only did the eighteen-wheeler represent an inconvenience, it was also a serious obstacle which he was in danger of hitting in a matter of seconds. There was no room for him in the lane of traffic he had just left, so he was faced with the choice of either trying to knock the truck out of his way or swerving onto the grassy median—and he had only seconds to decide and act.

He chose the latter, and went bouncing wildly across the median onto the access road (miraculously clear of cars at the moment) where he spun around a few times, losing a hubcap, before managing to get control of his car and drive down the access road—markedly slower than he had previously been driving.

We drove on, and saw no more of this genius. Apparently he had decided against regaining any more precious seconds and was proceeding on his journey at a more temperate speed.

About an hour later, somewhere south of Dallas, we saw a cluster of flashing red-and-blue lights ahead on the other side of the road. As we got nearer, we saw that the lights belonged to several emergency vehicles. Apparently there had been an accident, and judging by the number of emergency vehicles it was a very bad one.

A few minutes later, the traffic on our side of the road slowed to a crawl so everyone could turn their heads and get a good look at the accident—a commendable example of cooperation among drivers. It was as if someone had said, "We all want to see the accident, so let's all slow down together." But no one had to say it, you see—that’s what was so commendable. Everyone slowed down automatically. Such unspoken cooperation among strangers almost restores your faith in humanity.

So, as we drove past the accident scene, we all turned our heads and looked. Apparently, it had been a one-car accident. That is, we could see only one wrecked car. If another vehicle was involved, it must have sped away into the night, because it was nowhere in sight.

The wrecked car—a red car—was lying upside down on a bed of shattered glass, the front part of its roof smashed flat against the pavement. Inside the squashed passenger-side window a hand was visible. It was not moving.

The EMS personnel were not moving either, but were standing idly nearby, hands in their pockets, talking, apparently waiting for the car to be cut open so the body could be taken out and driven to the morgue.

We passed the scene, and with nothing more to look at now but the long line of south-bound traffic waiting for the wreck to be cleared, the north-bound traffic began to pick up speed, moving faster and faster and faster and faster in the same mad race to get there—wherever “there” might be, whether it's home, or the job, or the shopping mall, the movie theatre, McDonalds, or the morgue—a few seconds faster.

And we reached our destination, despite the maniacs, like so many times before. Yet, this time we were aware that, in the case of the white car, had the driver hit the truck, it would have caused chaos on the highway that would have had a domino effect on all the nearby cars, including ours. And, in the second case, had the red car landed in the north-bound lanes, and had we left town earlier, as we had planned—well, I might not be writing this tonight.

Such is the razor’s edge we all trace each day. Such is the roll of the dice.

4:09 pm CST

My friend and fellow Bush Junta contributor Ethan Persoff has created a most  unusual soundscape (in Color!) called SPREE which I highly recommend you explore. Go HERE and escape from Reality.

4:05 pm CST
It comes as no surprise that the Bush campaign is attacking Kitty Kelley's upcoming book about the Bush family. Nor is it surprising that the president's former sister-in-law Sharon Bush denies ever having talked to Kelley about his drug use at Camp David. Nor is it surprising that an ex-National Guardsman has been found who remembers serving with Bush in Alabama. And it is not surprising that some experts have been found who believe that the Bush National Guard documents recently featured on 60 Minutes might be fakes. None of this is surprising at all. It was expected that the Bush campaign would launch an attack on the credibility of the allegations about Bush. So, now that this attack is underway, let us not mistake it for proof that the allegations are untrue. And, more importantly, let us remember that, even if the allegations could be proven false, it would not matter. That's right--the allegations about Bush do not matter. For, even if we could be one-hundred-percent sure that Bush's National Guard service was impeccable or that he never touched cocaine in his life, we would still be left with the overwhelming mountain of evidence that the Bush administration orchestrated the September 11 terror attacks as a pretext to set up a police state in America and launch a war in the Middle East to achieve the objectives of the Project for the New American Century. That is what the news media should be reporting during this campaign season, and everything else--all this back-and-forth business about whether or not Bush used drugs or went AWOL, and so forth--is a DISTRACTION.

3:52 pm CST
Bush Bisexuality Asserted in Scorching New Book

George Bush's National Guard Records Solidify Six-Month Gap

Confiscation of legal guns begins in Illinois

Chechnya: Some Close to Putin Think Belsan Attack Was CIA

Not a Single Chechen Has Been Found among the Dead Gunmen

Putin Lashes Out at the U.S.

Putin Threatens NWO

10:35 pm CST
ANNOUNCING: the Grand Opening of Radio MACK—and YOU are invited! Join the party HERE.

5:35 pm CST
Kitty Kelly Bush Book Rumors

Kitty Kelly: Bush Took Cocaine at Camp David

George W. Bush: Brownsville Satanic Cult Member?

11:37 am CST
Chechen Separatists Say “Third Force” Behind Terrorist Attacks

Arrest of bin Laden closer than ever, U.S. official says

Concentration Camps for U.S. Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders

1:16 pm CST

My friend (and fellow Bush Junta contributor) David Paleo wrote with this comment about the recent abuse of the memory of Johnny Cash by the GOP in NYC: I am glad to see that you and others are as outraged as me by this cannibalistic orgy passing as a "tribute" to Johnny Cash, i'm comforted by the thought that Republicans will be sent to some San Quentin of Hell, where they'll have to listen to an unending stream of prison songs, sung by...Liberace! and a capella! That should teach those goat fellatin' oligarchs to mess with memory of an honest man!

12:33 am CST
An American lawyer finds evidence of continued torture in Iraq:
Abu Ghraib Isn't Going Away

While he was in New York covering the GOP convention, Alex Jones managed to get before a C-SPAN camera and deliver this 20-second rant.

NYC Bike Arrest: A Firsthand Account

7:43 pm CST
Television memories of the GOP convention to cherish:

Grinning delegates in silly hats moving in a conga line on the convention floor.

A news report about a protester beating up a plainclothes cop that left out the part about the cop and his buddies running over people with motor scooters prior to the beating.

A female delegate in a silly red-white-and-blue hat dabbing the tears from her eyes while listening to Laura Bush's "touching" speech.

A panel of commentators agreeing that Arnold Schwarzenegger can best be described as a "self-made" man.

A protester on the convention floor being drowned out by delegates in silly hats chanting "Four more years."

A buck-toothed female delegate in a silly Statue of Liberty hat "getting down" to the music.

Various scenes of cops in full riot gear keeping delegates in silly hats "safe."

An obese male delegate walking around the convention floor with a tired, irritated expression in sharp contrast to his silly hat: a straw hat loaded with “patriotic” ornaments, the largest being a bald eagle figurine.

So many, many fond memories to cherish ...

And now, a GOP National Convention Headline Wrap-Up:

Judge fines NYC over protester detentions

"Guantanamo on the Hudson": Conditioning Us for Concentration Camps

Two readers sent me the following links about the use of military “non-lethal” technology in New York: bOING-bOING and Indymedia.

7:58 pm CST
A reader sent me the following link to a very interesting Guardian article describing the lost year of George W. Bush. It is an interview with the wife of a Bush family friend Jimmy Allison which contradicts the official story of what Dubya was doing in 1972: George W Bush's missing year

8:57 pm CST
Reports in the mainstream media made it seem that a plainclothes cop in New York was attacked by protesters yesterday for no reason. However, in this New York Daily News story, we learn that the cop was one of several cops driving motor scooters who plowed into a crowd of people. The story also describes how non-protesters are being rounded up and arrested by police.

8:53 pm CST
More new stuff added to the playlist on Radio MACK tonight.

12:37 pm CST
Hear Alex Jones’ 8/31 Report from the GOP Convention in New York HERE

1:34 am CST
New York: Reports of Widespread Police Abuse Filter In

Chaos Descends on New York as Hundreds of Protesters Arrested