What we appear to be

bart_calendar imagines 2012 reconstructed from the LJ files.

Channeled

I just hit a Facebook post saying that my friend "Robert Anson Heinlein wonders who all his fellow heinleiners are supporting for President in 2012..." I always thought the Old Ones would be concerned with more important things.

Scary

My foot doctor told me today that he dreads going to the clinic where he also works because they're about to upgrade their system.

Lockdown

Cory Doctorow understands this; Congress doesn't. I keep thinking of Gilbert & Sullivan:

And noble statesmen do not itch
to interfere in matters which
they do not understand