Jonathan Bethel is the Director of the Omega Point Institute, a futurist think tank, consciousness research group, center for spiritual studies, and singularity watch group that studies the relationship between human consciousness and the accelerating trends within science, technology and culture.

Here is just one example of the daily attack routine I am being forced to deal with at this time. This goes on every day, 24/7 folks.
1240hrs. Ass attack, duration 8 to 10 minutes
1250hrs. Heart, Duration 8 to 10 minutes
1304hrs Heart, duration 5 minutes
1310hrs. Groin, duration 8 to 10 minutes
1345hrs. Throat, duration 3 to 5 minutes

Jim Woodring is the very articulate, very funny and very bent cartoonist whose comics are the stuff of legend. A featured artist with Seattle-based publisher Fantagraphics Books, Woodring’s comics are surreal, sweet, nightmarish, and truly unforgettable. Having once looked into Jim’s world, it is virtually impossible not to keep looking at the creatures of his imagination as they dispense -- to quote Francis Ford Coppola -- "candies from another planet."

Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.