Fractal Corn Dogs  

I haven't done much tinfoil to "whet your paranoia", as Bart would say, but Cryptogon has some classic tales today if you're in the mood for that sort of thing.

* ENDGAME: Hundreds arrested in Iowa immigration raid: fairgrounds used as federal "holding facility"
* Iranian Weapons in Iraq? Woops
* U.S. Government Letters Tell MIT Students They’re Security Threats
* Soviet Republic of Britain: Town Halls Should Map Race and Religion to Identify ‘Tension Hotspots’

On a related note, I've almost finished reading David Evans' book "The Third Reich In Power", which describes in graphic detail how the Nazis established their totalitarian system of control in the pre-war period. Very interesting reading.

* Texas: “In-School Suspension Program” Uses GPS Tracking Systems Attached to Students

You’ve got to hand it to the New York Times. This one goes down smooth. The GPS system is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It tracks, it traces, it slices, it dices, it gets results, it saves lives. And it saves money! Who needs jail for the kiddies when an “in-school suspension program” is available?

“Big Brother,” you say.

Phooey.

“This is a device that connects you to a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate,” says Dave Leis, a spokesman for NovaTracker, the company that makes the tracking system.

If that’s not double plus good, I don’t know what is.

Now, I got sidetracked from all the better-living-through-surveillance claptrap onto a different issue. The article says that Jaime Pacheco doesn’t eat breakfast at home, but when he gets to school and activates his tracking unit, he heads to the cafeteria. Does “in-school suspension” include some form of breakfast? Indeed, I think it does.

What gastronomical delights await the kiddies at Bryan Adams High School in East Dallas?

* Shudder *

After some meandering around the high school’s website, I found this menu.

What you’ve got there is a recipe for diabetes and ADHD. Highly refined white flour, sugar, cast off slag from unthinkable, industrial meat production operations and salt. We almost certainly don’t want to know what else.

I called Becky over to look at it and we were both struck dumb by the sight of a main breakfast entrée called a “Breakfast Stick.”

WTF is a breakfast stick?

I played with the handy feeding time configurator and the breakfast stick looks like some form of corn dog. But what’s in that thing?

Anyway, gazing upon the U.S. now just seems like looking at Hell as a fractal. You zoom in, and there’s more Hell. Zoom in again, more Hell. Zoom in again, GPS tracked students. Zoom in again, breakfast stick.