Mithras Rising and the New Praetorians

Eight years ago we looked at the incoming Obama Administration, which seemed determined to touch as many potent symbolic bases as possible, touring temples and pyramids, making a number of 17 minute speeches and drawing explicit parallels to King Tut.

It seemed as if there were a program in place to charge this new President with as much symbolic and semiotic power as possible. Those were heady days.

Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy

Well, that was a surprise.

Progress is a Scribbly Line

We're taught that ancient civilizations were just rest-stops on the great expressway to the technocratic Utopia; that myth is being shoved down our throats in the media every day.