...I have to rant again about politics. More specifically, this notion that no state dare take the Guantanamo detainees into their prison systems. One brave little outpost in Montana has offered; and a shitstorm of backlash abounds.

I for one don't trust the people of Montana, or any state in the United States, to be able to keep anyone inside of a super-max prison.
Americans are weak. Americans are afraid of everything, every day. Americans pee the bed when they think about beards.
Of course no one is safe in America if these prisoners are on American soil; because once they *are* on U.S. soil - - - -something will happen!
What will it be?
It doesn't matter, because the Conservatives will tell us to be afraid, and since we are Americans, we will be. I'm scared writing this! What if a super-terrorist reads it and melts my baby's face off with mind-lasers?!?!
We are less safe just thinking about it! Right?

Amazing that the same idiot, flag-waving white-trash morons who can be swayed into voting against their interests time and again by the GOP machine's relentless pushing of the panic button are the same ones who put "these colors don't run" bumper stickers on their trucks. Yet, here they be, crying real, juicy, little-girl tears because some Pakistani dental school student with an expired visa might be held in a maximum-security prison within America. What are you so afraid of? Explain. Seriously.

What no one wants to say out loud is that the fear is: when we move *those people* to American prisons, they have certain rights. Those rights include habeus corpus. A trial could [and likely will] set some of these people free - because the government has no case against them that would stand the scrutiny of the legal system.
What we are afraid of is admitting that we, The Good Guys, put some people in prison, without charge, for almost ten years - and those people didn't really do anything. We were scared. We were rash. And we don't want to admit it.
But fuck it, man. We put innocent families in internment camps during WWII. It happened, it's over, move on. Fucking up is real and inevitable. Continuing to terrorize your own citizenry with tales of the bogeyman is propaganda and horseshit.
We can keep these and any people in jail. Nothing is stopping an organized terrorist group from taking hostages and demanding the release of these people right now, and nothing will be different if they live in Montana. They're just men. They can't walk through walls, they can't poison the water supply by sheer will. And most of them aren't associated with any such organization anyway.
Rest assured, the US's policy of torture, illegal detention, unwarranted invasion and the like *is* creating new terrorists each and every day, though.
So there will always be Bad Guys.
Let's just not wilt and tremble in the face of the ones we've caught. If we're in the Right, then there's no downside to bringing these people to prison here.

Also, I like popcorn. I wasn't sure if I should write a whole separate blog about it, so I'm just including it here.
Popcorn is awesome, man. I like white popcorn, black, blue, red - even sometimes yellow corn. You have to put butter on popcorn; this is not up for discussion. I like a pretty liberal amount, I won't lie. Naturally, copious amounts of salt as well.
Hot-air-popped corn is pretty effing gay. It's undoubtedly better for you - if that means anything - but it also feels like a lie. Like it was made by some artificial, magic process that was impressive, but somehow robbed a little essence along the way; kinda like those dudes in Primer who kept going back in time and eventually they couldn't write or think too clearly.