Damek.

I just got back from seeing Patriot Act at the New York Theatre Workshop. If you’re in NY, go see it. Better than Fahrenheit 9/11. Forget the ties to the Saudis and his corporate lovefests. Forget the oil and the lying. This play exposes the Bush team’s ties to those in the right who want to turn America into an Old Testament-style theocracy. It’s not really a play, it’s more of an interactive multimedial lecture, like experiencing a book live. But it’s great. I mean, I’m already anti-Bush, pro-America, pro-reason and pro-democracy… but this really redefined my view of the Bush administration and the forces behind it.

It’s billed as “A Public Meditation” - an evening with media critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller, author of books including The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and the upcoming Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order. It’s great - go see it if you can. It’s playing through July 22. Otherwise I guess you can just get his upcoming book, it probably covers a lot of the same material. It’s a clever title, too, considering it details how the Bush administration is acting patriotic while being nothing of the sort… They’re not conservative, they’re radicals; they’re not patriots, they’re fascist subversives; they’re not rational, they’re religiously pathological and anti-science; they’re not American, by any traditional measure.