I thought I was the world expert on pessimism and paranoia, but today's blog takes the cake (if there is a cake). Did anyone go out and subvert, deflect, sabotage, suborn, weaken, undercut, escape from the Empire this week? (Don't write it here if you did. The cops can read the net, too.) Hatch any plots? If you don't hatch a plot, how you gonna get free, hmm? Complaining about how awful and powerful the Empire is just sets the Empire bastards up. When they read that they know they're hitting on all cylinders.