Why I am very, very scared of Bush and his supporters:

Call me a purist, but I never quite imagined the Thing looking like a man in a rubber suit.

from William GIbson’s blog:

“Bush talks and thinks like Milosevic. He will lose, but the most disheartening thing is the prospect of his religio-nationalist reality-deniers clinging fiercely to the sacred glory of their Lost Cause for the next hundred years. We live under the Confederacy. We’re a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks.”

–Bruce Sterling, via email